Last year Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Senior Program Associate, Helen Wright, attended the 6th Annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Heidelberg, Germany as part of their international blog team (read those blog posts here). This year I, Khari Douglas, will be representing the CCC at the 7th Annual HLF as a blogger and podcaster. Organized by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation and Klaus Tschira Stiftung, HLF is “a one-week event combining scientific, social and outreach activities. The recipients of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science, the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize are invited to participate in […]

Earlier this summer, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced a joint white paper competition with Schmidt Futures on the future of “CS for Social Good.” Schmidt Futures, founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, is a philanthropic initiative that bets early on people who will make our world better. The goal of the joint white paper competition was to harness computer science (CS) to address societal challenges. CCC put together a review committee consisting of CCC Council members, who read all submitted proposals and made decisions on the final papers.  The Best Overall Paper was awarded to Connie Moon Sehat from Hacks/Hackers – Credibility Coalition and Ellen Zegura from Georgia Tech […]

David Ott (VMware Research) and Chris Peikert (University of Michigan) provided contributions to this post.  On January 31-February 1, 2019, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held a workshop in Washington, D.C. to discuss research challenges associated with PQC migration entitled, “Identifying Research Challenges in Post Quantum Cryptography Migration and Cryptographic Agility.” Workshop organizers, David Ott (VMware) and Chris Peikert (University of Michigan), are pleased to announce the release of the final workshop report. The implications of sufficiently powerful quantum computers for widely used public-key cryptography is well documented and increasingly discussed by the security community. Specifically, widely used RSA, ECDSA, ECDH, and DSA cryptosystems will need to be replaced by […]

Recently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released the completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, titled A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US! An HTML version is available here. Slides summarizing the roadmap are now available here. We encourage you to use these when sharing the community vision. This roadmap is the result of a year long effort by the CCC and over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and President of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University and President Elect of AAAI). Comments on a draft report of this roadmap were solicited in the Spring of 2019 and incorporated in the final report. If you would like […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 16th International Symposium on Spatial & Temporal Databases Symposia (SSTD ’19), August 19-21, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. SSTD’19 discussed new and exciting research in spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data management and related technologies with the goal to set future research directions. First prize – Understanding human mobility: A multi-modal and intelligent moving objects database Authors: Jianqiu Xu, Hua Lu and Ralf Hartmut Güting Second prize – Location-Based Social Simulation Authors: Hamdi Kavak, Joon-Seok Kim, Andrew Crooks, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk and Andreas Züfle  CCC provides travel awards to authors of the winning papers. We encourage you to apply […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Meeting (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). Summary: SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. There are two subtracks for submissions of talk proposals for the AAAI 2020 Senior Members Track (SMPT): the summary talk – broad talks on a well-developed body of research […]