The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 5- November 8, 2019 in Chicago, IL. The purpose was to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The goal of this track was to present visionary ideas at the conference. First Place- Revolutionizing Tree Management via Innovative Spatial Techniques Yiqun Xie, Shashi Shekhar, Richard Feiock, and Joseph Knight Second Place- Towards Geocoding Spatial Expressions (Vision Paper) Hussein Al-Olimat, Valerie Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Joy […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), October 26-30, 2019, in Auckland, New Zealand. The purpose of this conference was to presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. The goal of this track was to solicit visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities for the Semantic Web that are outside of the current topics in the field and are not mature or specific enough to be accepted in the regular research track. Awardees Konstantin Todorov “Datasets First! A Bottom-up Data Linking Paradigm“ Mayank Kejriwal and Pedro Szekely “Co-LOD: Continuous Space Linked Open […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 16th International Symposium on Spatial & Temporal Databases Symposia (SSTD ’19), August 19-21, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. SSTD’19 discussed new and exciting research in spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data management and related technologies with the goal to set future research directions. First prize – Understanding human mobility: A multi-modal and intelligent moving objects database Authors: Jianqiu Xu, Hua Lu and Ralf Hartmut Güting Second prize – Location-Based Social Simulation Authors: Hamdi Kavak, Joon-Seok Kim, Andrew Crooks, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk and Andreas Züfle  CCC provides travel awards to authors of the winning papers. We encourage you to apply […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Meeting (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). Summary: SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. There are two subtracks for submissions of talk proposals for the AAAI 2020 Senior Members Track (SMPT): the summary talk – broad talks on a well-developed body of research […]

The 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2019) was held in Minneapolis, June 3 to June 5, 2019. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored the 2019 NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2019.

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. SMPT has two subtracks for submissions, which include summary talks and Blue Sky Ideas talks. The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations are aimed at presenting […]