In a new workshop report published by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Computing on the Fly: Navigating a Vision for the Future of Drone Computing, experts across academia, industry, and government assess the potential of AI-powered drones for non-military use by 2035 and identify the critical barriers standing between today’s capabilities and that future. The report envisions a decade in which drones move goods, medical supplies, and information at a scale comparable to national infrastructure investments like highways and the electric grid. Potential applications include natural disaster detection drones that spot wildfire sources within minutes, medical supply chains that bypass ground congestion to reach rural hospitals, and nationwide fleets that […]

Around 20 years ago, researchers were proposing new ideas that led to the current AI revolution. What is being explored in your academic unit or organization right now that will lead to the next revolution in computing in the next 10-20 years? The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is launching a Call for Innovative Research Visions (CIRV) to discover exactly that kind of forward-looking work: research that’s still early, perhaps a bit speculative, but has the kind of catalytic potential that could reshape where the field goes long-term. CCC will use these submissions to help guide the focus of future visioning Task Forces, so this is a direct line from what’s […]

Each year, the CCC Council welcomes a new cohort of members whose terms begin on July 1st. Today, we’re delighted to introduce the following members joining the Council. We look forward to the unique perspectives and expertise they’ll bring to CCC, helping to enrich the broader computing research community and shape its future. Cindy Bethel “I am honored and excited to serve on the CCC Council because I strongly support its mission to catalyze innovative, high-impact research that addresses pressing national and global challenges. I look forward to contributing perspectives on responsible, human-centered approaches to computing and artificial intelligence that help shape research visions grounded in ethics, trust, and real-world […]

This June, three valued members of the CCC Council are rotating off as the end of their terms approaches. Before they do, we would like to thank each of them for their dedication and service to CCC and to the broader computing research community, and to highlight a few of their most notable contributions. Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Randal joined the council in 2022 and chaired the Beyond Code: Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems at Scale workshop, and is now the driving force behind the writing of the workshop report. He also participated in and assisted in the report development for the Systems and Applications Challenges for the Emerging Bazaar […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored the creation of a Blue Sky Track for visionary papers at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026), held 25–29 May 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS is the largest conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing a forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field. AAMAS is the flagship conference of the non-profit International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Winners First Place Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and […]

The efforts of citizen scientists have enabled research projects across scientific disciplines. From users mapping biodiversity on iNaturalist to analyzing protein folding configurations to advance drug discovery on Foldit, we have seen the value of engaging everyday participants in research projects. At the same time, advanced computing outputs like artificial intelligence (AI) haven developed rapidly, becoming applicable across a wide variety of domains. Yet those very developments cannot be sustained without opportunities for participatory research into trust, access, and security — opportunities that citizen science research provides.  Join us for the second-ever CCC Community Chat: A New Era of Scientific Progress: Uniting Advanced Computing and Citizen Science for Accelerated Research. […]