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 […]

The 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media will be held in Barcelona, Spain June 28 – July 1, 2022. The conference focuses on high quality research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. Research concerns all aspects of hypertext ranging from social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. ACM’s HT Conference 2022 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to initiate a new Blue Sky paper track that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. This track solicits papers relevant to Hypertext and Social Media content that go beyond the usual research paper to present new visions that stimulate the community to pursue innovative […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at The Ninth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), November 14-18, 2021. FIRST- The Science of Rejection: A Research Area for Human Computation (video) Burcu Sayin, Jie Yang, Andrea Passerini and Fabio Casati SECOND – Human Computation and Crowdsourcing for Earth (video) Yasaman Rohanifar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana, Prateek Chanda and Malay Bhattacharyya THIRD – Human in the Loop for Machine Creativity (video) Neo Christopher Chung 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 committee […]

The National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force convened its third virtual public meeting to further develop a vision and implementation plan for the NAIRR. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago), was invited to speak about the recently published A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness in the New Era of 21st Century Digital Transformation white paper.  In addition, 84 responses from industry, academia, and government stakeholders were recently released regarding the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation request for information to develop an implementation roadmap for the NAIRR. […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), October 18-22nd, 2021. The emphasis of this special track was on innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. ICMI looked for submissions that went beyond the usual research paper to present new visions to stimulate the community to pursue innovative new directions. First place: Sandy Pentland (MIT), “Optimized Human-A.I. Group Decision Making: A Personal View” Second place: Georgios Rizos (Imperial College London), “Towards Sonification in Multimodal and User-Friendly Explainable Artificial Intelligence” Third place: Philippe Palanque (Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse), “Dependability and Safety: Two Clouds in the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction” CCC provides […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 3-7th, 2021, online.  The emphasis of this special track was on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. It served as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative ideas, and aimed to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by result-oriented standards. Best Paper Award: Diverse Auto-Curriculum is Critical for Successful Real-World Multiagent Learning Systems Yaodong Yang, University College London Jun Luo, Huawei Canada Ying Wen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Oliver Slumbers, University College London Daniel Graves, Huawei Canada Haitham Bou Ammar, Huawei R&D […]