Computing Community Consortium Blog

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.


Archive for the ‘Blue Sky’ category

 

Blue Sky Track Winners at ICMI’23

October 12th, 2023 / in Blue Sky, Uncategorized / by Maddy Hunter

The 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 Hunter

The 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 Hunter

The 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 […]

Blue Sky Track Winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022

November 21st, 2022 / in Announcements, awards, Blue Sky / by Maddy Hunter

The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. The conference was held in Seattle, Washington on on November 1st-4th, 2022. 1st Place: “Causal Inference for Interpretable and Robust Machine Learning in Mobility Analysis” by Yanan Xin (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich), Natasa Tagasovska (Prescient Design, Genentech | Roche), Fernando Perez-Cruz (Swiss Data Science Center) and Martin Raubal (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich) 2nd Place: “Geospatial Accessibility and Inclusion by Combining Contextual Filters, the Metaverse and Ambient Intelligence” by Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs – Research), Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T) and Divesh Srivastava (AT&T). 3rd Place: “Electric Vehicle […]

Blue Sky at HT’22

July 11th, 2022 / in Blue Sky / by Maddy Hunter

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22), June 28 – July 1st, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Congratulations to the winning papers!   FIRST – The Web At War: Hypertext, Social Media, and Totalitarianism Mark Bernstein SECOND – From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking Ronen Tamari, Daniel Friedman, William Fischer, Lauren Hebert, and Dafna Shahaf  THIRD – Weaponising Social Media for Information Divide and Warfare Ehsan Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson, Tristan Braud, and Pan Hui CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply […]

Blue Sky at AAAI-2022

March 3rd, 2022 / in awards, Blue Sky / by Maddy Hunter

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 […]