In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing a $14 million funded effort toward innovative research in bioengineering. NSF invests $14M in bioengineered systems and ethical biocomputing research The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $14 million into seven innovative research projects through its Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program. This initiative is focused on advancing organoid intelligence, a multidisciplinary field that uses tiny, 3D-engineered tissues to replicate the functions of natural organs. By investing $2 million in each project, NSF aims to explore and develop novel biological computing systems that could significantly enhance the capabilities of artificial intelligence and address its current limitations. Organoid […]

In March 2020, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) partnered with the Code 8.7 Initiative to bring together over fifty experts from the computing research community, along with anti-slavery practitioners and survivors. The mission was clear: to chart a research roadmap that explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged in the fight against human trafficking.  Building on the momentum from the 2019 Code 8.7 conference at the United Nations, this workshop aimed to align the bold objectives of the 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the U.S. with the crucial goal of eliminating modern slavery, as outlined in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7. Here are five critical […]

In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to  advance research on weather, climate, ocean and ecosystem prediction through a $100 million investment to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) high-performance computer system (HPC). Investment of $100 million in a new high-performance computer system to advance NOAA research and development Rhea, the newest HPC system, will be installed at the NOAA Environmental Security Computing Center (NESCC) in Fairmont, West Virginia. This advanced facility, which already houses the Hera HPC, will feature graphics processing units designed to accelerate NOAA’s use of artificial intelligence and machine learning.  Rhea’s capabilities will enhance NOAA’s efforts in various […]

CCC spoke with one of its council members, Rachel Greenstadt about her work in trustworthy intelligent systems and her approach to this research through an interdisciplinary lens. What interests you about trustworthy intelligence systems? When I say intelligent systems, I mean socio-technical systems that include humans and computers collaborating. Humans can be awful sometimes, but also great. Intelligent systems can do delightful things, but are also really gullible and lack social sophistication. To realize their benefits, we need to figure out how they can fit into our society and enhance the best rather than worst instincts of humanity. It also touches on a lot of different areas so as someone […]

The Community Computing Consortium (CCC) is engaging in a new visioning activity to craft a research agenda focused on how human-computer collaborations can solve some of the most pressing scientific problems through citizen science, crowdsourcing, and community-engaged science.  We are excited to announce a visioning workshop titled “Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research.” The workshop will take place in Washington, DC, from April 8 to 9, 2025, with an opening dinner on April 7.  The workshop will cover several key focus areas including Human-Computer Teaming, Computational Citizen Science, Citizen Science Data Cyberinfrastructure, the development of affordable sensors for citizen science, and the ethical and social […]

The Community Computing Consortium (CCC) is thrilled that council vice chair Katie Siek will be speaking on how we need to think of menopause more inclusively at the “Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand Menopause” Women’s Health Workshop. People of all genders can experience menopause and people within care networks are also important to support people going through menopause. Specifically, as a human centered computing researcher, Siek believes knowing what people’s experiences are, working with people and believing people are crucial to tackling ongoing challenges in menopause research.  Here is a sneak peak of her talk: Knowing what people’s experiences are We can do this by scraping social media, forums, […]