CCC is pleased to announce that last week council members Michela Taufer and Chandra Krintz published an article in Inside AI News to discuss their upcoming panel at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference. As members of the Task Force on Sustainability and Climate Resilence, they are excited to be given a platform at the SC24 conference. Here is a sneak peek at one of the questions they would like leaders to consider before this panel discussion in November. How can AI continue to drive innovation while minimizing environmental harm? By now, we can all agree that AI has enormous potential, but we must ask ourselves whether the growing environmental cost of […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage you to consider responding to the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Request for Information (RFI) on a National Plan for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilence.  The NITRD National Coordination Office seeks public input for the creation of a National Plan for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience Research. According to the request, the goal of the plan is to shape a whole-of-government research and development (R&D) plan related to cyber-physical resilience across systems that may be local, regional, or national in scope. Interested individuals are invited to submit comments on or before 11:59 p.m. ET on October 26, 2024 via email. To find […]

In July 2024, the Computing Research Association Working Group on Socially Responsible Computing Subcommittee on Best Practices for Conference released a whitepaper to guide conference organizers in developing responsible computing policies by outlining key areas where attention seems necessary. This comes at a time when many, but not all, computing research conferences are increasingly incorporating ethical and societal considerations into their submission guidelines.  Here are some ways conferences can help promote responsible research and publication practices. Include guidelines on avoiding research-related harm. Guide responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in submissions. When appropriate for human-centered research, require Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval or equivalent review. Promote reproducibility by requesting public release of […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will be hosting the Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research workshop in-person from April 8 – 9, 2025 and virtual discussions. Their goal is to develop a research agenda on how humans and machines may team up to solve some of the most pressing scientific problems through citizen science, crowdsourcing, and community-engaged science.  Organizers Lea Shanley (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA), Corey Jackson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University) and Saiph Savage (Northeastern University) are here to share the details. What are you most excited for at the in-person workshop? Lea: The idea for this workshop formed during […]

The Community Computing Consortium (CCC) is engaging in a new visioning activity to craft a research agenda focused on how human-computer collaborations can solve some of the most pressing scientific problems through citizen science, crowdsourcing, and community-engaged science.  We are excited to announce a visioning workshop titled “Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research.” The workshop will take place in Washington, DC, from April 8 to 9, 2025, with an opening dinner on April 7.  The workshop will cover several key focus areas including Human-Computer Teaming, Computational Citizen Science, Citizen Science Data Cyberinfrastructure, the development of affordable sensors for citizen science, and the ethical and social […]

In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to attend a workshop centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Menopause as a part of the White House’s Women’s Health Initiative.  Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand Menopause On September 4, this webinar co-led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), will unite experts from biomedical research and advanced computing to address menopause, a crucial yet often overlooked area of women’s health. While attention has been put on fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth, menopause has not received the same level of focus. This webinar aims to change that by exploring how AI […]