An interdisciplinary group of 50 researchers attended the third Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research (AI/OR) workshop in late March in Washington, DC. Presentations ranging from the opioid epidemic to integrating OR and AI through the optimization lens, discussing challenges that require collaboration between the two communities in Operations Research (OR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).  In 2021, the first AI/OR workshop was convened to establish the joint strategic vision. Researchers from the OR and AI communities presented on theories and applications and discussed ways to foster collaboration between the two communities and make it more widely accepted and promoted. “We needed to make sure that we get greater recognition for the researchers and […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting brought together a community of leading scientists, educators, policymakers and journalists in February. Among those individuals were CCC council member Matthew Turk and former council member Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Turk, the president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Venkatasubramanian, a professor of data science and computer science at Brown University, were featured in an article by the California Council on Science & Technology.  As AI experts, they were asked about the role of states in providing guardrails for the use of AI and generative AI. Their response in the article emphasized how different attempts by states to address […]

Last week, the CCC responded to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Request for Information on Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models with Widely Available Model Weights. The CCC’s own Daniel Lopresti (CCC Chair and Lehigh University) and David Danks (CCC Executive Committee and University of California, San Diego) helped author this response along with several other members of the computing community. Markus Buehler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Duncan Watson-Parris (University of California, San Diego), who both spoke at the CCC sponsored AAAS panel this year, titled, Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls, both contributed to the RFI response, along with Casey Fiesler (University of Colorado, Boulder), who […]

Today, April 1, 2024, the CCC submitted a response to the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Request for Information (RFI) Related to Responsibilities on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. In the solicitation, DOE sought advice on their plan to carry out some of the responsibilities outlined for them in the October Executive order (E.O.), “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence”. The RFI response was written by the following CCC Council Members and staff: Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University), Haley Griffin (CCC), Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), and Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology). The authors were impressed with the DOE’s list […]

We are excited and proud to pass on the news that former CCC Chair and long time Council member Gregory D. Hager was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve as the Assistant Director (AD) of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) starting June 3, 2024. Dr. Hager had been a long standing member of CCC: he was a CCC Council Member from 2010-2017, CCC Vice Chair from 2013-2014, and CCC Chair from 2014-2016. His leadership in CCC had a significant impact on the  broader computing research community. Most recently, in 2022 CCC featured his research on the medical applications for AI and robotics […]

Today, CCC submitted a response to a Request for Information released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on their Strategic Plan for Data Science 2023-2028. The response was written by the following computing experts: Tony Capra (University of California-San Francisco), David Danks (University of California San Diego, CCC Council Member), Haley Griffin (CCC), Carl Kingsford (Carnegie Mellon University), Rittika Shamsuddin (Oklahoma State), Katie A. Siek (Indiana University, CCC Council Member), Mona Singh (Princeton University, CCC Council Member), Donna Slonim (Tufts University), and Tammy Toscos (Parkview Health, CRA-I Council Member). The authors applauded NIH for an impressive list of aspirations in the Strategic Plan, but raised concerns about the training, […]