The following great innovative idea is from Ouri Wolfson, the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Ouri was one of the Blue Sky Award winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL ’18 for his paper called Understanding the Human Brain Via its Spatio-temporal Properties. The Idea The human brain is probably the most complex object in the universe, and also one of the least understood. For example, how the brain produces the mind and consciousness is a complete mystery. Nevertheless, the brain is amenable to measurements of various kinds that produce lots of data. It is […]

Khari Douglas, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Program Associate, was recently promoted to Senior Program Associate! Khari has worked on a number of projects while at CCC, including organizing and running visioning workshops, helping to write and edit workshop reports, co-sponsoring the Manoa Mini-Symposium on Physics of Adaptive Computation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in January 2019, and creating, producing, and hosting a bimonthly podcast called Catalyzing Computing. Khari’s new role will focus on engagement. He will be responsible for interacting with the community and supporting council members to enable more bidirectional engagement, primarily through visits with the broader community and ensuring participation at regular CCC activities. He will continue […]

Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark Hill and Vice Chair Liz Bradley are staying in their respective roles for another year. They look forward to continuing the ongoing work, such as the AI Roadmap and the report on Evolving Academia / Industry Relations in Computing Research. Seven new CCC Council members have joined us for the start of their three year terms: Sujata Banerjee (VMware), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), Tom Conte (Georgia Tech), Maria Gini (University of Minnesota), Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan), Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University), and Katie Siek (Indiana University). The CCC and CRA thank those council members whose terms ended […]

Contributions to this post were provided by Monica Lam and Jen King from Stanford University.  The New York Times recently published an article titled Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative. Professor Monica Lam and her students, Giovanni Campagna, Silei Xu, Michael Fischer, and Mehrad Moradshahi, have developed a virtual assistant called Almond that can avoid surrendering personal information to a centralized service and encourage open competition among companies. She is joined by Stanford computer science researchers Michael Bernstein, Dan Boneh,  Jen King, James Landay, Chris Manning, and David Mazières, Chris Re in a newly funded NSF research grant to expand the capabilities and privacy protection […]

The population in this country is getting older, and yet, these aging individuals expect their homes to keep up with their changing needs. This so called “Aging in Place” is becoming more and more common. Researchers, like Computing Community Consortium (CCC) past chair Beth Mynatt, Regents’ Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech, are working to develop assistive technologies to help these individuals continue to enjoy their home and live well. Beth’s work is highlighted in the July 2019 National Geographic Magazine. Here is a snippet from the feature: “Like other computer scientists, Elizabeth Mynatt uses cutting-edge tech. What sets her apart is her holistic, […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with Schmidt Futures, will sponsor and administer a white paper competition on the future of “CS for Social Good,” in order to harness CS to address societal challenges such as: Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy; Reducing the inter-generational transmission of poverty; Feeding 10 billion people while reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture; Reducing the time and cost for a low-income worker to gain a skill that is a ticket to the middle class; Using data to support evidence-based policy while protecting privacy and security; Reducing health care costs while maintaining or improving health outcomes; and Improving K-12 student learning outcomes in core academic subjects […]