The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is embarking on a crucial journey: developing a comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to revolutionize biomedical discovery and public health. The agency released a recent Request for Information to help inform this effort, and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Computing Research Association (CRA) took this opportunity to share some recommendations, drawing from the expertise of the computing community. At its core, our guidance centers on the principle of safe, secure, and effective AI. This isn’t just about deploying cutting-edge technology; it’s about ensuring AI tools are inherently reliable, trustworthy, and ultimately beneficial for patients and researchers. Ethical considerations such as fairness and transparency […]

See the Full Recording of Lisa Amini’s keynote at the CCC’s 2025 Computing Futures Symposium.  In May of 2025, the Computing Community Consortium’s Computing Futures Symposium hosted an insightful keynote speech by Lisa Amini, Director of Data & AI Platforms Research, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer. With a background spanning over 25 years at IBM in areas such as Data & AI, stream processing, and distributed systems, Amini offered a comprehensive look at the rapid advancements in agentic and generative AI, and their growing impact on the enterprise. Her address highlighted a critical shift in AI research and development, global innovation trends, and the transformative potential of AI within businesses. […]

A recent New York Times article by Steve Lohr, “How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?”, powerfully highlights the profound impact of generative AI on computer science education. As an organization dedicated to catalyzing and enabling the computing research community, CCC recognizes the urgency and criticality of this transformation. The article outlines the current landscape, noting that universities nationwide are grappling with how to adapt their curricula. The traditional emphasis on mastering programming languages is indeed being challenged by AI assistants that can generate increasingly sophisticated code. Jeannette Wing, Columbia University professor and former Computing Research Association (CRA) board member, aptly captures the current sentiment in the […]

Conversations around the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market have intensified in recent months. With high-profile announcements of layoffs and the increasing visibility of large language models (LLMs) that can generate and explain code, it’s natural that students, parents, and recent graduates are questioning the long-term value of a computer science (CS) degree.  One recent contribution to this conversation comes from Boise State University Associate Professor Casey Kennington and Clinical Instructor Andre Keys, whose recent article draws directly from The Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models, a joint whitepaper from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and CRA-Industry (CRA-I). Their piece positions the CS […]

  The final panel of the CCC Computing Futures Symposium, “Computing’s Human Context,” called for a paradigm shift in how we understand and develop computing technologies, urging a move towards a more interdisciplinary and human-centric approach. Moderated by Bill Regli (University of Maryland), the discussion featured insights from Sunny Consolvo (Google), Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins University), Adam Russell (University of Southern California), and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University).   Regli kicked off the discussion by suggesting that computer science may be on the verge of a Kuhnian paradigm shift. He argued that our current models are failing to address the complexity of modern challenges in areas like artificial general intelligence (AGI), […]

CCC is pleased to announce we are sponsoring another Blue Sky Ideas track at the ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day conference on August 5 in Toronto, Canada, and submissions are open until Friday, June 27. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see the submission details below or check out the conference website for more information.   Call for Papers: ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day Blue Sky Ideas Track Event: KDD 2025 Health Day Track: Blue Sky Ideas Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Location: Toronto, Canada Website: https://kdd2025.kdd.org/special-days/ Aims and Scope The Blue Sky Ideas Track at KDD 2025 Health Day seeks bold, visionary contributions at the frontier […]