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 […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce our sponsorship of the Blue Sky Ideas track at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2026), taking place from November 12-15, 2026, in Shenyang, China. Submissions are open until July 1st, 2026. If you are interested in submitting a visionary paper that could shape the future of the data mining community, please see the details below.   Call for Papers: ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Track: Blue Sky Track (A.K.A. Vision Track) Date: November 12-15, 2026 Location: Shenyang, China Website: http://icdm2026.neu.edu.cn/main.htm   Aims and Scope The Blue Sky Track invites the research community to present visionary propositions […]

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 […]

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 ACM Hypertext Blue Sky Ideas Track, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)! ACM HT, first held in 1987, two years before the invention of the World Wide Web, showcases high quality, peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems, and applications. In the early years of the conference, researchers focused on key pre-Web hypertext software, including Apple Macintosh’s HyperCard and Eastgate Systems’ Storyspace. Now in its 35th year of holding an annual conference, ACM HT has evolved significantly to focus on new applications of hypermedia brought on by the advent of the internet. ACM Hypertext 2025 Blue Sky Winners 1st Place From […]