Today marks the first official day of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg, Germany. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and covered the HLF conference every year since 2018, with the exception of last year, 2022. This year we are back in action, and will be covering the conference in-person in the idyllic town of Heidelberg.   To give some background, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an annual conference which brings together some of the greatest minds in mathematics and computer science, both those well established in their fields and those who are just beginning their careers. 200 young researchers are selected to attend and meet the […]

On March 2-5, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Annual Meeting was held in Washington, DC. AAAS was founded in 1848 on the principle of supporting and highlighting scientific research at the national level, and was the first organization of its kind in the United States. The annual meeting featured hundreds of scientific sessions, plenary and topical lectures, workshops, and e-poster presentations, and was attended by researchers in all disciplines of science as well as members of the government and media organizations. The Computing Community Consortium attended and hosted 6 scientific sessions on a broad range of computing topics, which are listed below. We will release weekly […]

Ai4 is hosting their 2023 conference August 7-9 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ai4 is an organization that aims to establish a common framework for AI development and use going forward. The conference will bring together business leaders and data practicers spanning a broad array of practice areas from healthcare, to banking and social media to facilitate the responsible adoption of AI and machine learning technology. Ai4 just announced their line up of over 200+ speakers, including JONNIE BRADLEY (Acting Director, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office – U.S. Department of Energy), NITZAN MEKEL-BOBROV (Chief AI Officer – eBay), JIGYASA GROVER (Machine Learning Engineer – Twitter) and many more top […]

Last month at CRA’s Conference at Snowbird the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) led an after-dinner brainstorming session, “Reboot!” to help members of the community engage in a visioning discussion. Led by Sujata Banerjee, Nadya Bliss, Liz Bradley, Bill Gropp, Dan Lopresti and Ann Schwartz, the session featured a series of discussions and idea sharing among the community pertaining to two topics chosen to inspire a lively discussion and to get people thinking outside of their areas – Neural Programming and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Customized to Human Norms. You can read the full description of each topic here. Participants were asked to find a partner and discuss a series of questions. […]

A somewhat surprising theme emerged during the “Scientific Vocation Revisited – Can Future Discoveries be Made by Artificial Intelligence?” session at the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). The session featured panelists Jeffrey A. Dean (Google Research), Harry Collins (Cardiff University) and Dafna Shahaf (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); and, while they did discuss the potential impact of AI systems on the process of scientific discovery, they also kept reiterating the importance of human collaboration to making scientific advancements; particularly collaborations that occurs face-to-face. To open the session, moderator Volker Stollorz (Science Media Center Germany) asked Jeffrey Dean why private industry, such as Google and OpenAI, has been able to make […]

Computing Research Association (CRA) Board Member Timothy M. Pinkston will be moderating a panel on “Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Computing Community” at this year’s co-located HPCA’21, PPoPP’21, CGO’21, and CC’21 conferences from 1:30 to 3 PM (EST) on March 3rd.    Panel Abstract: There is a movement occurring broadly across many scientific and engineering fields, including widely within our computing community, toward making tangible progress through intentional actions and interventions for advancing and valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion.  There is also a movement toward dismantling structural and/or systemic factors—especially but not limited to racial and gender biases—that may be standing in the way of making much needed progress in advancing and valuing diversity, […]