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 […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 14th annual iConference, March 31- April 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. This special track for 2019 sought ideas and visions that stimulate the iSchool research community to pursue new directions. It was organized by Kevin Crowston from Syracuse University and John Leslie King from the University of Michigan. 1) Disrupting the Coming Robot Stampedes: Designing Resilient Information Ecologies Philip Gregory Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and ASRC Federal; Aaron Dant, ASRC Federal; Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2) Troubled Worlds: Bringing Bodies and the Environment into  Computing Research, Practice, and Pedagogy Megan Finn, University of […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 33rd Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), January 27- February 1, 2019, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The purpose of this conference was to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. The goal of this track was to present ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies. First place: Pat Langley (Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise) Explainable, Normative, and Justified Agency Second Place: Francesca Rossi (IBM Research & University of Padova) and Nicholas Mattei […]

Last week I shared my interview with Thermodynamic Computing workshop organizers, Tom Conte (Georgia Tech) and Todd Hylton (UC San Diego) and workshop participant Christof Teuscher in What is Thermodynamic Computing? Part 1. Part 2 of What is Thermodynamic Computing? is now available for streaming or download on Soundcloud (embed below), or you find it on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play. In this episode I interview workshop organizer, Natesh Ganesh, a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who is interested in the physical limits to computing, brain inspired hardware, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and emergence of intelligence in self-organized systems. He was awarded the best paper award at IEEE ICRC’17 for the paper  A Thermodynamic Treatment of Intelligent Systems. I also speak with workshop participant […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 6- November 9, 2018 in Seattle, WA. 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- Understanding the Human Brain Via its Spatio-temporal Properties Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago) Second Place- Geofences in the Sky: Herding Drones with Blockchains and 5G Tamraparni Dasu (AT&T Labs-Research), Yaron […]