As part of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Symposium, described in full here, we featured a number of visioning workshops CCC has held over the past year. CCC task force members and workshop organizers led the talks. The purpose of these sessions was to bring the community together, tell them what the CCC is doing, and then see if they could provide more insight. All the discussions that were generated from the sessions seemed to follow a general idea- computer science did X so now how do we move forward? See all the videos from the different sessions here. The sessions and their corresponding problems included: […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Prof. Dr. Heiko Paulheim, Chair for Data Science and Program Director of Mannheim Master in Data Science at the University of Mannheim. Paulheim was one of the CCC Blue Sky winners at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 2018 for his paper called, How Much is a Triple? The Idea Knowledge graphs, i.e., structured collections of knowledge in the form of a graph, are currently widely created and used, both commercially by major Internet companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as open source by researchers, such as DBpedia or Wikidata. While there is a larger body of work on how to create and refine those knowledge graphs, as well […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a visioning workshop in Atlanta, GA on March 14-15, 2019 to discuss and articulate research visions for authoring rich media content for new workforce training. The workshop aims to articulate research challenges and needs and to summarize the current state of the practice in this area. This workshop is in response to growing needs in the field and new research programs such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Advancing Cognitive and Physical Capabilities (FW-HTF). Historically, materials such as books and movies were used in addition to hands-on experiences for education and practical training. Increasingly, various other types of computer generated […]

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of the National Science and Technology Council‘s (NSTC) Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, put out a Request for Information (RFI) from the public on the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) responded to the RFI and submitted their response, which was then endorsed by a number of societies in a corresponding statement. The CCC agreed with the NITRD NCO and Select Committee “that advances in AI will have a transformational impact on society, and that sustained support for fundamental research in a wide array of AI-related topics will […]

In August, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held the Early Career Researcher Symposium (ECR) as a capstone event for the CIFellows program. It brought together 73 former CIFellows, postdoctoral students, and early career researchers in computing. The speakers were CS faculty members well established in their careers, government representatives from agencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Computing Research Association (CRA) and CCC council members and staff, and program managers from non-profits. The goal of the ECR was to provide the early career researchers advice at this juncture of their career, enable […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA. ISWC is the international forum for the semantic web and linked data community. Papers with significant impact on the field and outside the field were solicited. Topics included areas such as semantic data programming and weak supervision, deep learning and knowledge graphs, and graph embedding. First place:  Denny Vrandečić, Google Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia Second place: Heiko Paulheim, U Mannheimm How much is a Triple? Third place: Praveen Paritosh, Google What if the primary goal of the web was to foster curiosity? CCC provides travel awards to authors […]