CCC Council member Ben Zorn provided contributions to this post. Recently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released a new industry report called the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research, which was organized by Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research and chair of the CCC Industry Working Group. The working group started in 2018 with a mission to see if the environment described by the 2015 CCC industry round table report called The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations had changed at all. Turns out it has and a lot! Since then several important trends in computing research have emerged. This new report considers how these trends impact the interaction between academia […]

In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Daniel Lopresti who serves as the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Director of the Data X strategic initiative at Lehigh University. In this episode Dr. Lopresti discusses his work applying computer science to molecular biology, pattern recognition, and voting machine security. Stream in the embedded player below or find the podcast on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | iHeartRadio | Youtube.   If you are interested in appearing in an episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast or want to contribute a guest post to the CCC blog, please complete this survey through Google Forms. If you listen to the podcast, […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). 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. SMPT has two subtracks for submissions, which include summary talks and Blue Sky Ideas talks. The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations are aimed at presenting […]

In support of the Administration’s R&D priorities in strategic computing, National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Fast-Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Strategic Computing (SC), Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) is requesting public input to the update for the Strategic Computing R&D goals and approaches. These goals and approaches will help ensure continued U.S. leadership and support the advanced networking and IT capabilities for America. Responders are asked to answer one or more of the following questions in the responses to the RFI: What are emerging and future scientific and technical challenges and opportunities that are central to ensuring American leadership in SC, and […]

I recently linked my child’s smart robot toy to the Internet. Did I feel a little strange about it? Yes. But was giving the robot the ability to play “Baby Shark” and dance to it while making my child laugh, worth it the risk? Yes, I thought, until I saw this… Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an informational report called Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks (NISTIR 8228). This is the first in a planned series of documents NIST is developing to help IoT users protect themselves, their data and their networks from potential compromise. Developed by the NIST Cybersecurity for IoT […]

Khari Douglas, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Program Associate, was recently promoted to Senior Program Associate! Khari has worked on a number of projects while at CCC, including organizing and running visioning workshops, helping to write and edit workshop reports, co-sponsoring the Manoa Mini-Symposium on Physics of Adaptive Computation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in January 2019, and creating, producing, and hosting a bimonthly podcast called Catalyzing Computing. Khari’s new role will focus on engagement. He will be responsible for interacting with the community and supporting council members to enable more bidirectional engagement, primarily through visits with the broader community and ensuring participation at regular CCC activities. He will continue […]