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 […]

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 […]

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. […]