The following is a guest blog by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.  I recently had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussing the National Robotics Initiative (NRI). The NRI is in its 5th year, so we were asked to describe “the return on investment” of the program. Various panel members pointed out how focused and energized robotics is on high-value, relevant applications, and how it has created new startups, a new cohort of students who will power the next wave of R&D innovation, and, of course, a host of new research results. But what does this really […]

Yesterday’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) co-sponsored public workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good was tremendously successful! We had around 300 people in the room and over 3,500 viewers on the livestream. The two keynote talk were from Lynn Overmann, Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Eric Horvitz, former CCC Council Member and Technical Fellow & Managing Director at Microsoft Research. All slides can be found here, twitter conversation here, and the videos will be coming soon! Check out a few pictures below and the rest here!               […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) co-sponsored public workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good is tomorrow, June 7th, 2016 in Washington, DC. Please join us by watching the livestream starting at 8:30 AM EDT. You can also join the conversation via twitter, using @compcomcon and hashtags #AI4SocialGood and #FutureofAI. The agenda and full list of speakers, including their bios and talk titles, are on the website. This is one of four workshops that OSTP is co-sponsoring which are being held around the country to spur public dialogue on artificial intelligence and machine learning and to identify challenges and opportunities related to AI. […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), are co-sponsoring a public workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good on June 7th, 2016 in Washington, DC. There has been a dramatically increasing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. AI has been successfully applied to societal challenge problems and it has a great potential to provide tremendous social good in the future. In this workshop, we will discuss the successful deployments and the potential use of AI in various topics that are essential for social good, including but not limited to urban computing, health, environmental sustainability, and public […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 14-22, 2016 in Austin, TX. The purpose of this conference was to bring together the world’s leading software engineering researchers and practitioners to share cutting-edge results and visionary ideas, attend inspirational talks, and engage in lively conversation. The goal of this Blue Sky Ideas Track called Visions of 2025 and Beyond was to encourage researchers to present truly visionary concepts on long-term challenges in software engineering research and ideas for attacking these challenges. Visions of 2025 and Beyond Co-Chairs David Rosenblum, National University of Singapore and Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia presented the awards to the […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Full disclosure: He is working with one of the authors—Luis Ceze—and Tom Wenisch on visioning via Architecture 2030 at ISCA 2016.   The invention of writing enabled us to reliably transmit information into the future. Stone tablets, papyrus, velum, and paper can be read centuries if not millennia later. But how much of the digital information that we created over the last 75 years will be readable much later? How much is even readable now? Wouldn’t it be valuable if we could record digital information in a medium that […]