The world is buzzing about artificial intelligence (AI), driven by the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks, large language models, and other types of foundation models. But what’s next? A new whitepaper, “Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research,” from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) dives into this crucial question, suggesting that the current wave of AI innovation, while powerful, is built on a paradigm that’s already 15 years old. “The current paradigm, while incredibly successful, is not the endpoint,” says David Jensen, one of the paper’s authors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “For AI to continue to progress over the long term, we need researchers to be actively exploring […]

Mary Lou Maher, CRA’s Director of Research Community Initiatives and leader of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), will be concluding her tenure at CRA at the end of August. We thank Mary Lou for her leadership and contributions to the computing research community during her time at CRA. As the Director of CCC, Mary Lou provided strategic, administrative, and programmatic leadership. During her time in the role, CCC organized more than 20 community events, including two symposia and five visioning workshops, with two additional workshops currently in development. She also oversaw the publication of six visioning workshop reports, three Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Computing Research documents, and eight Quadrennial Papers. […]

  Today marks the end of the following CCC Council member’s terms. We would like to thank each of them for their exceptional dedication and service to CCC and to the broader computing research community, and to highlight some of their most notable accomplishments below:   David Danks, University of California San Diego   David joined the council in 2021 and served on CCC’s Executive Committee. During his time with CCC, David engaged in CCC’s responses to Requests for Information (RFIs) from various government agencies, in total assisting with 26 responses. David also helped organize the Future of Pandemic Prevention and Response workshop and engaged with several CCC-sponsored AAAS sessions. […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 2025 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2025), and we are thrilled to announce the winners! SDM, now in its 25th year, provides a platform for researchers to showcase their work tackling issues in data mining in a peer-reviewed setting, and provides a venue for graduate students to connect and receive input on their research. Individuals new to the field learn about research by listening to invited speakers, attending presentations and tutorials, and participating in focused workshops.  SDM 2025 Blue Sky Winners 1st Place Data Mining the Functional Architecture of the Brain’s Circuitry Adam […]

CCC is pleased to announce we are sponsoring another Blue Sky Ideas track at the ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day conference on August 5 in Toronto, Canada, and submissions are open until Friday, June 27. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see the submission details below or check out the conference website for more information.   Call for Papers: ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day Blue Sky Ideas Track Event: KDD 2025 Health Day Track: Blue Sky Ideas Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Location: Toronto, Canada Website: https://kdd2025.kdd.org/special-days/ Aims and Scope The Blue Sky Ideas Track at KDD 2025 Health Day seeks bold, visionary contributions at the frontier […]

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), has issued a request for information (RFI) seeking input on the development of the 2025 National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan. This is a crucial opportunity for the computing community to help shape the future of AI research in the United States.  The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) intends to submit a response to this RFI as a follow-up to our February response to the RFI on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan. We encourage members of the computing community […]