By Shar Steed originally posted on the CRA Bulletin. The Computing Research Association (CRA) today announced it has selected Katherine Yelick, former CCC council member and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, as the recipient of the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding and sustained service contributions to the computing research community. Yelick has earned the reputation of the “go-to” person for advice to the government and the agencies within it, and to institutions of higher education on all aspects of advanced computing. She is respected for her sound judgment, her broad knowledge of computing research, and her […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 22-March 1, 2022. Congratulations to the winning papers! FIRST- Local Justice and the Algorithmic Allocation of Scarce Societal Resources Sanmay Das SECOND – Training on the Test Set: Mapping the System-Problem Space in AI Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Wout Schellaert, and Fernando Martínez-Plumed THIRD – Market Design for Drone Traffic Management Sven Seuken, Paul Friedrich, and Ludwig Dierks CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference! Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program […]

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 National Science Foundation is currently seeking nominations for the National Medal of Science (NMS), the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. In 1959, the 86th Congress established the NMS as a Presidential Award, given to individuals “deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.” The award has since been expanded to include social and behavioral scientists.  A committee of scientists and engineers appointed by the President evaluate the nominees taking into consideration scientific and engineering achievement along with broader impacts in promoting scientific advancements and in societal benefits. So far 506 scientists and […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently announced the 2022 newly elevated Fellows. Among them are two individuals involved with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) – Sujata Banerjee and Tim Sherwood. Sujata Banerjee for leadership in programmable and energy efficient networks CCC Council and Executive Committee Member       Tim Sherwood for contributions to computer system security and performance analysis Co-Organizer of the upcoming CCC workshop on Mechanism Design for Hardware Security.       Also among the new elevated Fellows were Behçet Açikmeşe and Brian Blake who have been involved in Computing Research Association activities. You can see the orginal post on the CRA Bulletin here. IEEE […]

Originally posted on the CRA Bulletin by Shar Steed CCC Council Member and CRA-WP Board Member Maria Gini was recently named the recipient of the 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, one of the major SIGAI awards. Maria Gini is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She also currently serves as a co-director for the Grad Cohort Workshop for Women and the CSGrad4US Mentoring Program. From the citation: Professor Gini has been a leader in the field of robotics and multi-agent systems for many years, consistently bringing AI into robotics. She contributed novel algorithms to connect the logical and geometric aspects of robot motion and learning, novel robot […]