The following is a blog from the Computing Research Association’s Bulletin, about the release of a new CRA committee report that was informed by a number of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) activities, such as the 2015 The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academia Collaboration report, the CCC Industry Working Group and resulting Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research white paper. Recent trends such as increasing industry demands for technical talent from academia, as well as changes in the academic environment with increased industry interactions have prompted the need for a fresh look at the relationships between academia and industry. In late 2019, a CRA ad hoc committee on Industry/Academia Interactions was created to study these trends and determine how CRA can […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, May 9 – 13, 2020, online.  The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations were aimed at presenting ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, e.g., new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research. Two First Place Papers “New Foundations of Ethical Multiagent Systems” Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah Nirav Ajmeri Catholijn Jonker Munindar Singh “Agents are Dead. Long live Agents!” Virginia Dignum Frank Dignum Second Place “Live Simulations” Samarth Swarup Henning Mortveit CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering challenges in adiabatic/ reversible classical computing. This workshop will gather the research community in this field, lay a common foundation of existing state-of-the-art knowledge, and work together to prepare a comprehensive workshop report that can make the case for a major new initiative effectively to federal-level decision-makers. Workshop participants will be selected by invitation only. We seek short position papers to help us create the agenda for the workshop and select attendees. The submission deadline to submit a position paper has been […]

The following is a press release from The White House Office of  Science and Technology Policy.  Recently, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and over a dozen top U.S. industry and academic leaders launched the National Q-12 Education Partnership, a groundbreaking new initiative to expand access to K-12 quantum information science (QIS) education. As part of the announcement, NSF is awarding nearly $1 million to QIS education efforts, including the establishment of the Q2Work Program to support quantum education workforce development across the country. Private sector and academic leaders are committing to develop and provide educational programs, tools, training opportunities, and curricula […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering challenges in adiabatic/ reversible classical computing. This workshop will gather the research community in this field, lay a common foundation of existing state-of-the-art knowledge, and work together to prepare a comprehensive workshop report that can make the case for a major new initiative effectively to federal-level decision-makers. Workshop participants will be selected by invitation only. We seek short position papers to help us create the agenda for the workshop and select attendees. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please submit […]

MIT Technology Review publishes an annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35, and they recently released their list of innovators for 2020. The list features over 20 innovators who are solving problems related to or using computer science. Some highlights from the list include: Leila Pirhaji, ReviveMed – Pirhaji built an AI-based tool for measuring tiny molecules in the body called metabolites, and her work could help us better detect and treat diseases. Measuring and identifying metabolites is expensive and time-consuming, and fewer than 5% of metabolites in a patient can be identified using common technologies. So Pirhaji developed a platform that uses machine learning to do it much […]