The next WATCH talk, called Applications of Differential Privacy, from Dr. Rebecca Wright at Rutgers University, is Wednesday, March 28th, from 1:30PM-2:30PM. Dr. Rebecca Wright is a professor in the Computer Science Department and Director of DIMACS at Rutgers. Her research is primarily in the area of information security, including cryptography, privacy, foundations of computer security, and fault-tolerant distributed computing. Dr. Wright serves as an editor of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security and of the Transactions on Data Privacy, and is a member of the board of the Computer Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University, a […]

The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).   Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Irene Qualters as Senior Science Advisor within the CISE Office of the Assistant Director (OAD) and the appointment of Dr. Manish Parashar as the Office Director for the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), effective this week. Irene Qualters, Senior Science Advisor As Senior Science Advisor, Irene will contribute to strategic leadership and stewardship of new directions within the CISE directorate, particularly in alignment with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) […]

The following is an excerpt from a National Science Foundation (NSF) news release.  The NSF announced three new Expeditions in Computing awards, each providing $10 million in funding over five years to multi-investigator research teams pursuing large-scale, far-reaching and potentially transformative research in computer and information science and engineering. This year’s awards aim to enable game-changing advances in real-time decision making, quantum computing, and non-invasive biomedical imaging. They also aim to more rapidly bring to market practical applications of quantum computing and enable non-invasive and easy-to-use diagnostic imaging of the human body that could increase the quality of healthcare in remote areas. Below are descriptions of the three projects funded this […]

Contributions to this blog were provided by Gera Jochum, Communications Specialist, in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation and CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill from University of Wisconsin, Madison. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and VMware have come together to create a public/private partnership on edge data computing infrastructure. See the synopsis of the program below. The proliferation of mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and their pervasiveness across nearly every sphere of our society, continues to raise questions about the architectures that organize tomorrow’s compute infrastructure. At the heart of this trend is the data that will be generated as myriad devices and application […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now accepting proposals for its 2018 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards. This competitive program encourages domestic small businesses to engage in federally funded research and development opportunities that have the potential for commercialization. Small businesses may apply in any of the technology areas below: Advanced Communications, Networks, and Scientific Data Systems Software-defined Networking (SDN) Enabled Secure Inter-Domain Routing Secure and Distributed Network Measurement Using the Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) and Domain Name System-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) to Improve Web Browser Security Advanced Manufacturing and Material Measurements Biomanufacturing Compton Scattering Tomography System with Sub-keV Energy Resolution for Gamma […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 32nd Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), February 2-7, 2018 in New Orleans, LA. The purpose of this conference was to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. The goal of this track was to present ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies. First place: Ana Paiva, Fernando P. Santos, and Francisco C. Santos Engineering Pro-Sociality with Autonomous Agents Second Place: John E. Laird and Shiwali Mohan Learning Fast and Slow: Levels of […]