The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored the creation of a Blue Sky Track for visionary papers at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026), held 25–29 May 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS is the largest conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing a forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field. AAMAS is the flagship conference of the non-profit International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Winners First Place Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and […]

CCC is happy to announce our sponsorship of another Blue Sky track. We’re supporting bold, out-of-the-box ideas at the 28th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, taking place in Napoli, Italy in October 2026. Paper submissions are open until May 8, 2026. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see the submission details below or check out the conference website for more information.   Call for Papers: ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction   Track: Blue Sky Ideas   Date: October 5-9, 2026   Location: Napoli, Italy   Website: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/call-for-papers-2/   Aims and Scope The Blue Sky Ideas Track at the ACM International Conference […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas track at the upcoming international conference SEMANTiCS, taking place September 15-17, 2026 in Ghent, Belgium. We hope to award several winners with a travel grant to showcase their visions for the future of semantic web and knowledge graph research.   Call for Papers: SEMANTiCS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track   Event: SEMANTiCS 2026   Track: Blue Sky Ideas   Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 – Thursday, September 17, 2026   Location: Ghent, Belgium   Website: https://2026-eu.semantics.cc/   Aims and Scope   The Blue Sky Ideas Track at SEMANTiCS 2026 seeks visionary ideas addressing long-term challenges and […]

By Alina Gerall, Program Associate, CCC We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Blue Sky Ideas Track, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)! ICDM 2025 was held in Washington, D.C. on November 12-15, 2025. Now in its 24th year, ICDM is a premier international conference for advancing data mining research, and covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software, systems, and applications. ICDM 2025 Blue Sky Winners First Place Truth Without Comprehension: A BlueSky Agenda for Steering the Fourth Mathematical Crisis Runlong Yu, University of Pittsburgh Xiaowei Jia, University of Pittsburgh   Second Place Navigating Between Explainability and […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 2025 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2025), and we are thrilled to announce the winners! SDM, now in its 25th year, provides a platform for researchers to showcase their work tackling issues in data mining in a peer-reviewed setting, and provides a venue for graduate students to connect and receive input on their research. Individuals new to the field learn about research by listening to invited speakers, attending presentations and tutorials, and participating in focused workshops.  SDM 2025 Blue Sky Winners 1st Place Data Mining the Functional Architecture of the Brain’s Circuitry Adam […]

CCC is pleased to announce we are sponsoring another Blue Sky Ideas track at the ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day conference on August 5 in Toronto, Canada, and submissions are open until Friday, June 27. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see the submission details below or check out the conference website for more information.   Call for Papers: ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day Blue Sky Ideas Track Event: KDD 2025 Health Day Track: Blue Sky Ideas Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Location: Toronto, Canada Website: https://kdd2025.kdd.org/special-days/ Aims and Scope The Blue Sky Ideas Track at KDD 2025 Health Day seeks bold, visionary contributions at the frontier […]