The 2020 ACM Hypertext conference is July 13-15 in Orlando, Florida. It is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. ACM Hypertext is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. The theme of Hypertext 2020 is “HYPERTEXT for Social Good”. This motto of the 31st ACM Hypertext conference goes hand in hand with the growing importance of ensuring technological inventions and innovations have a positive impact on the users, as well as the society at large. They are particularly interested in work that is […]

The following great innovative idea is from Yiqun Xie, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota.  Xie along with his advisor and former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member McKnight Distinguished Professor Shashi Shekhar, Professor Richard Feiock of Florida State University and Professor Joseph Knight from the Department of Forestry Resources at the University of Minnesota, received a Blue Sky Idea Award at the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. They were honored for their paper, “Revolutionizing Tree Management via Innovative Spatial Techniques.” The Idea Unawareness of tree locations and their spatial relationships with urban infrastructures have disturbed our communities with increasing frequency, scale and severity. For example, Emerald Ash Borer […]

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 […]