Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


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Announcing the Second-Ever CCC Community Chat, “A New Era of Scientific Progress: Uniting Advanced Computing and Citizen Science for Accelerated Research”

April 27th, 2026 / in Announcements, CCC, Community Chats / by Marla Mackoul

The efforts of citizen scientists have enabled research projects across scientific disciplines. From users mapping biodiversity on iNaturalist to analyzing protein folding configurations to advance drug discovery on Foldit, we have seen the value of engaging everyday participants in research projects. At the same time, advanced computing outputs like artificial intelligence (AI) haven developed rapidly, becoming applicable across a wide variety of domains. Yet those very developments cannot be sustained without opportunities for participatory research into trust, access, and security — opportunities that citizen science research provides.  Join us for the second-ever CCC Community Chat: A New Era of Scientific Progress: Uniting Advanced Computing and Citizen Science for Accelerated Research. […]