Final call for CCC Council Member Nominations. Nominations are due at 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 11, 2022. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), the CCC provides a voice for the national computing research community, facilitating the development of a bold, multi-themed vision for computing research and communicating that vision to a wide range of stakeholders. To fulfill its mission, the CCC seeks visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society dedicated to the advancement of science for societal good. Each year AAAS holds an Annual Meeting featuring lectures, flash talk sessions, e-poster presentations and international exhibit hall to bring together experts form a broad range of disciplines to discuss new research and developments in science, technology and policy. This year’s annual meeting is completely virtual and will be held online February 17th-20th. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and hosted sessions since 2013. This year we will host the following sessions: Robotics: Empowering not Replacing People– Feb 18th, 1-1:45 PM ET Intelligent Infrastructure For […]

On Wednesday, February 2nd at 11am EST The Networking Channel will stream a panel “How can we improve diversity and inclusion in the systems and networking community?” Organized by Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Matt Caesar (University of Illinois), the panel will feature Margaret Martonosi (National Science Foundation), the Computing Research Association’s incoming Director Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines and CRA), Mythili Vutukuru (IIT Bombay, India), Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway), Craig Partridge (Colorado State University), and Manuel Perez-Quinones (University of North Carolina Charlotte). The panel will address how to improve diversity and inclusion in the Computer Science field. Panel Description: Many of us would agree […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently announced the 2022 newly elevated Fellows. Among them are two individuals involved with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) – Sujata Banerjee and Tim Sherwood. Sujata Banerjee for leadership in programmable and energy efficient networks CCC Council and Executive Committee Member       Tim Sherwood for contributions to computer system security and performance analysis Co-Organizer of the upcoming CCC workshop on Mechanism Design for Hardware Security.       Also among the new elevated Fellows were Behçet Açikmeşe and Brian Blake who have been involved in Computing Research Association activities. You can see the orginal post on the CRA Bulletin here. IEEE […]

Originally posted on the CRA Bulletin by Shar Steed CCC Council Member and CRA-WP Board Member Maria Gini was recently named the recipient of the 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, one of the major SIGAI awards. Maria Gini is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She also currently serves as a co-director for the Grad Cohort Workshop for Women and the CSGrad4US Mentoring Program. From the citation: Professor Gini has been a leader in the field of robotics and multi-agent systems for many years, consistently bringing AI into robotics. She contributed novel algorithms to connect the logical and geometric aspects of robot motion and learning, novel robot […]

Help Enable the Future of Computing Research – Join CRA as a Program Associate By Shar Steed – Originally posted on the CRA Bulletin The Computing Research Association (CRA) seeks two highly-motivated individuals to join its staff as Program Associate or Senior Program Associate (depending on qualifications and experience). The positions involve work primarily with CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee, which aims to catalyze the computing research community to pursue innovative, high-impact research. The CCC is run as a cooperative agreement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and CRA. Each position works closely with the Director of the CCC, the CRA staff, CCC Council members and members of the computing research community to […]