The following is a blog post by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) AI Task Force Co-Chair Gregory D. Hager, Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University and CCC Director Ann Drobnis. The past year has seen an incredible amount of ink spilled on a singular topic: what does the future of AI portend for the nation and the world? Will AI technologies enhance productivity and quality of life, or will it disrupt labor markets and accelerate growth in income disparity and wealth concentration? Will AI research be used for the common good, or will it be “bought up” by the private sector and exploited for commercial gain? Is this […]

The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation‘s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), regarding the outcome of the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) positioning review.  Dear Colleagues, As you may recall, in 2013, the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI), which was then part of the NSF Office of the Director, was re-aligned into the CISE directorate as the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI).  That realignment did not change the mission of OCI/ACI; ACI has continued to support and coordinate the development, acquisition, and provision of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, tools, and services essential to the advancement and transformation of science and engineering, along with forward-looking […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Abdeltawab Hendawi from the University of Virginia. Hendawi along with his coauthors John Stankovic from the University of Virginia, Mohamed Khalefa from the University of Alexandria in Egypt, and Harry Liu and Mohamed Ali from the University of Washington Tacoma were among the winners at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2016 (SIGSPATIAL 2016) in San Francisco, CA for their paper A Vision for Micro and Macro Location Aware Services.  The Innovative Idea Conventional location-aware services customize search results based on users’ current location. Categories of these services include (1) service […]

The following blog post is by CCC Vice Chair and Executive Council member and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill and co-author of the report. In June 2016, I blogged about the successful Architecture 2030 Visioning Workshop, organized by Luis Ceze of the University of Washington and Thomas Wenisch of the University of Michigan, and partially sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) in conjunction with ISCA’16 in Seoul, South Korea. Recently CCC released the final report Arch2030: A Vision of Computer Architecture Research over the Next 15 Years with the endorsement of more forty research leaders in the field. Key findings are below. Progress on these is necessary to provide the cost-performance improvements that information technology creators and beneficiaries have come to depend […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, October 31- November 3, 2016 in San Francisco, California. The purpose was to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The goal of this track was to present visionary ideas at the conference. 1) First Place- Autonomous car and ride sharing: flexible road trains Niels Agatz, Erasmus University Rotterdam Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Ronny Kutadinata, The University of Melbourne Dirk Christian Mattfeld, […]

The following is a guest blog post from CCC Executive Council Member, Ben Zorn, a Principal Researcher and co-manager of the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research, Redmond Washington.  In 2006 Jeannette Wing made the case that computational thinking was a skill set that everyone, not just computer scientists, would benefit from learning and employing. This month we observe Computer Science Education Week to celebrate the shared lingua franca of computational thinking that brings together the great diversity of individuals from around the world with a common purpose. On the Microsoft Blog, 17 outstanding researchers from all parts of computer science share their vision of how computational thinking will […]