The Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society visioning workshop was held in the Spring of 2023, bringing together a diverse group of 53 civil society representatives, activists, non-profit leaders, and computing researchers together. The workshop was sponsored by CCC and the MacArthur Foundation. The workshop organizers, Timnit Gebru (Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas at Austin), and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University), along with support from Haley Griffin (CCC), Nasim Sonboli (Brown University), and Leah Namisa Rosenbloom (Brown University), have written a workshop report that synthesizes the amazing ideas discussed throughout the visioning workshop. This report is a result of the ideas, experiences, recommendations, […]

As automated systems become increasingly integrated into society, so do the number of people they impact. This means creators of these systems need to exercise extreme caution when designing, creating, and implementing systems to ensure that it will enact positive change in the community. Last spring, CCC and the MacArthur Foundation brought together activists, non-profit leaders, civil society representatives, and researchers, to discuss these community impacts at the Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology and Society visioning workshop. CCC has an extensive history of engaging in many of the research visioning topics topics that were brought up during the workshop like Privacy by Design (4 workshops in 2015/16), Artificial […]

CCC held a visioning workshop on the Future of Pandemic Response and Prevention in September 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was organized by the CCC Council’s Computational Challenges in Healthcare Task Force, and a Steering Committee of community members in the healthcare domain: David Danks, University of California-San Diego/CCC Council Member Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan/CCC Council Member Katie Siek, Indiana University/CCC Council Member Mona Singh, Princeton University/CCC Council Member Brian Dixon, Regenstrief Institute Madhav Marathe, University of Virginia Shwetak Patel, University of Washington Erica Shenoy, Harvard MGB Michael Sjoding, Michigan Medical The organizers assembled a wide range of experts for a 1.5-day event to see what ideas the […]

CCC has a long history of engaging in topics at the intersection of health and computing, from the Computing and Healthcare workshop in 2012, to the Aging in Place workshop in 2014, to the Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction workshop in 2018. The outcomes of these workshops revealed how computing research has the ability to make the lives of healthcare personnel (HCP) and the broader public easier, safer, and more effective. While society is optimistic that computing tools can be great aids to HCP during times of crisis, they largely fell short in being effective during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2023, CCC held a timely workshop on […]

On January 24th, 2024, the NSF’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) working group released a Request for Information to, “gather current and anticipated research and education use cases for the NAIRR Pilot and to also identify current and anticipated challenges and barriers that researchers and educators may face in accessing and using AI resources and tools for their activities”.   The field of AI is evolving at a breathtaking pace, becoming increasingly integral to various research domains and educational settings. However, accessing large-scale computing resources, AI-ready datasets, and pretrained models, which are necessary to conduct AI research, can be a significant barrier to entry for researchers, educators, and students. […]

The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Grand Challenges task force is engaging in a new visioning activity to identify the next grand challenges that will shape the future of our field. We’re seeking visionary thinkers and researchers to join us in this exciting exploration.   The community has been inundated with innovation and acceleration over the last decade, resulting in a world in which information, communication, and computational technologies permeate human interactions and enable essential functions of society.  These virtual roundtable discussions will aim to consider the whole of the field of computing in this context and ask what the new fundamentally “computing research” issues might be that could produce a […]