By Shar Steed, originally posted on the CRA Bulletin Recently the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced it has elected 111 members and 22 international members. Several individuals involved with CCC were among those elected: Klara Nahrstedt, Grainger Distinguished Chair, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Former CCC Council and Executive Committee Member For contributions to managing quality of service in distributed multimedia systems and networks.  Manuela M. Veloso, head, Artificial Intelligence Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York City. Former CCC Council Member and CRA-W Board Member For contributions to machine learning and its applications in robotics and the financial services industry. Election to the National Academy […]

The following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from three Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation –  Sylvia Butterfield (EHR), Kellina Craig-Henderson (SBE) and Margaret Martonosi (CISE). The letter calls for high-impact proposals in the information integrity and security space.  Dear Colleagues: One of the biggest challenges we face in society today is ensuring that the information that we depend on in almost every facet of our lives is accurate and trustworthy. Although information manipulated for political, ideological, or commercial gain is not new, the dissemination of inaccurate information at unprecedented speed and scale in the modern digital landscape is a new phenomenon with potential for vast harm. There […]

We are excited to welcome Catherine (Cat) Gill as a new Program Associate for the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee. In her role, she will assist CCC staff with administrative tasks and logistical matters, such as organizing and coordinating workshops and research efforts. Most recently, she worked as an office manager for Hanover Research organized employee events and office communications. “CCC eagerly welcomes Catherine (Cat) Gill as a new Program Associate. Her organizational experience, including communications and logistics, will help amplify the efforts of CCC leader and volunteers to further our goals of catalyzing high-impact computing research within the community.” – Dan Lopresti, CCC Vice Chair Originally from […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is calling for U.S. PIs with an active NSF award  to apply for their Building Collaborations: U.S. – India Workshop. To be held virtually on March 15th and March 22nd from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM US Eastern Time, the workshop seeks to support research collaborations via a joint U.S.-India funding opportunity. Applications are being accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis through March 1, 2022.  The joint funding opportunity is supported by nine programs in the NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and six Indian Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) to provide supplemental funding for collaborative projects in […]

The CCC is thrilled to welcome Haley Griffin to the team! The Computing Research Association recently hired Haley as a Program Associate for the CCC subcommittee. In this role, she will support the CCC mission through facilitating workshops, completing administrative tasks, and assisting with communications deliverables. “CCC is delighted to have Haley Griffin join us as a Program Associate. Her energy, her writing skills, and her work experience in nonprofit organizations will be assets to CCC in its mission to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research.” -Liz Bradley, CCC Chair Previously she worked for AmeriCorps as a Literacy Coordinator where she helped students […]

The 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media will be held in Barcelona, Spain June 28 – July 1, 2022. The conference focuses on high quality research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. Research concerns all aspects of hypertext ranging from social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. ACM’s HT Conference 2022 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to initiate a new Blue Sky paper track that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. This track solicits papers relevant to Hypertext and Social Media content that go beyond the usual research paper to present new visions that stimulate the community to pursue innovative […]