The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has submitted a community report to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a new Convergence Accelerator track on the topic of “Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations”.   The NSF’s Convergence Accelerator program, which was launched in 2019, aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to collaborate on and expedite solutions to outstanding societal problems. Every year the Convergence Accelerator program accepts proposals from the community to identify Convergence Accelerator tracks for the next year. The NSF then funds workshops on some of these research tracks to allow these ideas to be fleshed out among researchers from various backgrounds. The […]

The National Academies (NASEM) recognized the need for computing researchers in academia, industry, and government to consider the ethical and societal impacts of their work. Thus, the NASEM Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) formed a study committee which consisted of researchers with expertise across many areas of computer science and engineering, information science, computing technology development, social sciences, philosophy, and law, to work on a consensus study: Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications. The result of the study is a National Academies report published late last year: Fostering Responsible Computing Research: Foundations and Practices.  Today, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is releasing a […]

Ai4 is hosting their 2023 conference August 7-9 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ai4 is an organization that aims to establish a common framework for AI development and use going forward. The conference will bring together business leaders and data practicers spanning a broad array of practice areas from healthcare, to banking and social media to facilitate the responsible adoption of AI and machine learning technology. Ai4 just announced their line up of over 200+ speakers, including JONNIE BRADLEY (Acting Director, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office – U.S. Department of Energy), NITZAN MEKEL-BOBROV (Chief AI Officer – eBay), JIGYASA GROVER (Machine Learning Engineer – Twitter) and many more top […]

Thank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated themselves for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member. As a reminder, nominations are open through 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 10, 2023. Read more about the nomination process and CCC Council member responsibilities in our original post here. If you have any questions, please direct them to the CCC Director Ann Schwartz (aschwartz@cra.org).

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just announced their 2023 class of Elevated Fellows. Among them are members of the community with past affiliations and/or involvement with the Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium activities.  Fred Chong (Speaker at CCC Workshop “Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role”) Aaron Dollar (Contributor to the 2016 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics) Juan Gilbert (2009 CIFellow Mentor, also participated in several CRA and CRA-WP events) Yoshi Kohno (Presenter Computer Science: Past, Present and Future)  Jana Kosecka (contributor to 2009 and 2020 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics and author of white paper “Next Generation Robotics”) […]

A reminder that white papers for a mid-cycle update to the Robotics Roadmap are due January 9, 2023. Through support from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the US National Robotics Roadmap was first created thirteen years ago by a group of 120 people from industry and academia. It has since been used by government agencies, universities and companies as a reference and call to action from the robotics community. The first roadmap was published in 2009, then revised in 2013, 2016, and 2020. Our objective is to develop a short mid-cycle update, identifying gaps that are not being addressed in current research, in funding opportunities, at companies, and in the government, which need to be addressed […]