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 […]
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
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Congratulations to the Blue Sky Track Winners at SDM’25!
June 17th, 2025 / in Announcements, awards, Blue Sky, CCC / by Catherine GillCall for Papers: CCC Sponsored Blue Sky Track at ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day
June 13th, 2025 / in AI, Announcements, awards, Blue Sky, CCC, conferences, health, Healthcare / by Catherine GillCCC 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 […]
Blue Sky Track Winners at SDM’24
May 6th, 2024 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’24). The conference was held in Houston, Texas on April 18-20th. This conference provides a platform for researchers tackling issues in data mining to showcase their work in a peer-reviewed setting. It’s an opportunity for graduate students to connect and receive input on their research through the doctoral forum. Individuals new to the field learn about research by listening to invited speakers, attending presentations and tutorials, and participating in focused workshops. Best Paper Award: Data Silences: How to Unsilence the Uncertainties in Data Science Michael Muller, IBM Research […]
Blue Sky Track Winners at ICMI’23
October 12th, 2023 / in Blue Sky, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’23). The conference was held in Paris, France on on October 9-13th. 1st Place: “From Natural to Non-Natural Interaction: Embracing Interaction Design Beyond the Accepted Convention of Natural” by Radu-Daniel Vatavu: MintViz Lab, MANSiD Research Center, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava 2nd Place: “A New Theory of Data Processing: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Cognition and Humanity” by Jingwei Liu: University of California San Diego 3rd Place: “Towards Adaptive User-centered Neuro-symbolic Learning for Multimodal Interaction with Autonomous Systems” by Amr Gomaa: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarland Informatics Campus and Michael Feld: German […]
Announcing Call for Blue Sky Papers Track at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
August 31st, 2023 / in Announcements, Blue Sky / by Maddy HunterThe CCC is pleased to partner with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to sponsor a Blue Sky Paper track at their upcoming conference SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24). The Blue Sky Track emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. The conference will be held in Houston, TX from April 18-20, 2024. Important Dates Full Paper /Blue Sky Idea Submission Deadline: September 22, 2023, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time Decision Notification: Late December 2023 The goal of the Blue Sky Idea Track is to invite leaders of our research community to present position papers that may help inform or shape new directions of research. These are not […]
Announcing Call for Blue Sky Papers Track at ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
May 3rd, 2023 / in Blue Sky / by Maddy HunterThe 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction will be in Paris, France from October 9-13th, 2023. The CCC is pleased to partner with ACM ICMI to continue the Blue Sky Paper track, initialized in 2021 and continued in 2022, that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. This track solicits papers relevant to ICMI content that go beyond the usual research paper to present new visions that stimulate the ICMI community to pursue innovative new directions. They may challenge existing assumptions and methodologies or propose new applications or theories. The papers are encouraged to present high-risk controversial ideas. Submitted papers are expected to represent deep reflection, argue rigorously, and present […]
