In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to attend a workshop centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Menopause as a part of the White House’s Women’s Health Initiative.  Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand Menopause On September 4, this webinar co-led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), will unite experts from biomedical research and advanced computing to address menopause, a crucial yet often overlooked area of women’s health. While attention has been put on fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth, menopause has not received the same level of focus. This webinar aims to change that by exploring how AI […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Weisong Shi was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further autonomous research at the University of Delaware. Here’s more about his research: Machine Learning (ML) has become a driving force in advancing many critical domains, particularly in autonomous driving. The growing power of ML techniques enables autonomous vehicles (AVs) to perceive their surroundings accurately, make real-time decisions, and operate reliably without human input. Given the safety-critical nature of AVs, ensuring the end-to-end safety of their learning systems is paramount.  However, Shi’s research indicates that potential safety issues can arise from various sources, including the […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce the publishing of Weisong Shi’s book on Vehicle Computing. We spoke with him to discuss the process and key takeaways for researchers and practitioners.   What was the process of writing this book? This book originated from a vision paper we published at IEEE ICDCS 2018. In that paper, we envisioned future connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) as advanced computers on wheels, equipped with extensive onboard sensors serving as data sources and a range of services supporting autonomous driving and other functions. We proposed the development of an Open Vehicular Data Analytics Platform (OpenVDAP) for CAVs. Seven years later, the students […]

It has been almost a year since computer scientist Luiz André Barroso passed away. On September 16, 2023, he left a huge legacy behind. Barroso was a distinguished individual known for his transformative work at Google and his dedication to representation in the field. His ability to impact the community will now honored each year by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) through the Luiz André Barroso Award. Dr. Barroso worked at Google for over 20 years as a vice president of engineering in the Core and Maps divisions, and was the technical leader in the design of Google’s computing platform. He was a pioneer of Google’s data centers, rebuilding […]

In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students across the country to work on cutting-edge research projects at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Students dive deep into machine learning and deep learning The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) The Future of Discovery: Training Students to Build and Apply Open Source Machine Learning Models and Tools (FoDOMMaT) program offers an immersive 10-week experience every summer for undergraduates eager to develop practical skills and contribute to real-world projects.  Students are paired with two mentors, one focused on research and the other on machine learning expertise. […]

In 2020, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) published the quad paper “An Agenda for Disinformation Research,” where seven researchers came together to share the urgency of investing in fundamental research and interventions to meet the disinformation challenge. In today’s digital landscape, misleading information is widespread and causing real-world harms.  Advanced AI-powered detection methods are now essential, given the evolving manipulative tactics like deep fakes, synthesized text, and coordinated disinformation campaigns. Yet, detecting fake information is just the beginning; it’s equally crucial to understand its impact across diverse contexts and develop more resilience in society to misleading and false information. To meet the disinformation challenge, we need investments in fundamental research […]