Sam Bowman from New York University provided contributions to this post. The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2018) was held in New Orleans, June 1 to June 6, 2018. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored the 2018 NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2018. The SRW gave student researchers in natural language processing (NLP) the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive feedback and mentorship by experienced members of the ACL community. Twenty student participants from nine countries presented original research projects and thesis proposals as both talks and posters during […]

The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani, Acting Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).  Dear CISE Community, The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Rance Cleaveland as the Division Director for the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF), effective July 9, 2018. Rance will be joining NSF/CISE from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMD), where he is currently Professor of Computer Science and was the Executive and Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental and Software Engineering until 2014. Prior to joining the […]

Former CCC Council member and current CRA Board member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota provided contributions to this post. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics and Tools (FACT) initiative has issued a call for proposals that 1) focus on fundamental or core big data analytics and tool development, and/or 2) apply big data concepts to specific science domains or across domains and sectors for any of the Plant health and production and plant products program area priorities. A snippet from the USDA/NIFA Request for Applications (RFA): This program area priority focuses […]

The next WATCH talk, called Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population, from John M. Abowd, Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology at the U.S. Census Bureau, is Wednesday, June 6th 2018, Noon-1PM EST. Dr. Abowd was the lead author of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) white paper on Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis for the Federal Statistical Agencies in January 2017.  John M. Abowd is Associate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist at the United States Census Bureau and the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, Professor of Statistics and Information Science at Cornell University. At the Census Bureau, he leads a directorate of research centers, each devoted […]

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Maja Matarić, Chaired Professor and Vice Dean for Research at the University of Southern California will be giving the next free ACM Learning Webinar on “Socially Assistive Robotics” on Monday (June 4th) at 2PM PDT/5 PM ET.  Register now  Plamen Petrov, Director of Cognitive Technology, KPMG LLP; SIGAI Industry Liaison Officer and Rose Paradis, Machine Learning Research Scientist at Leidos Data Analytics Products and Services; SIGAI Secretary/Treasurer, will moderate the questions and answers session. Robotics is booming all around us. A field that was originally driven by the desire to automate physical work is now raising concerns about the future of work. Less discussed but no more important are the implications […]

Check out the following updates from the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Attend the Tech Jam Update (June 20-22, Portland, Oregon, USA) Register here  More than 20 action clusters working with municipal governments will present at the Tech Jam on June 20. Speakers include: Kris Bailey, COO, Electric Cab of North America Arik Bronshtein, CEO, UrbanLeap Sudipta Bhattacharyya, IoT Solution Lead, Nokia Benjamin Ng H. A., Assistant Vice President (Head of USA), Concorde USA & Singapore Hiroaki Nishi, Chairperson of the Consortium for Town Management of Misono and Professor, Keio University Limor Schafman, Director, Smart Buildings, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) The list of on-stage presentations is available here. Data SuperCluster (DSC) […]