A recent New York Times article by Steve Lohr, “How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?”, powerfully highlights the profound impact of generative AI on computer science education. As an organization dedicated to catalyzing and enabling the computing research community, CCC recognizes the urgency and criticality of this transformation. The article outlines the current landscape, noting that universities nationwide are grappling with how to adapt their curricula. The traditional emphasis on mastering programming languages is indeed being challenged by AI assistants that can generate increasingly sophisticated code. Jeannette Wing, Columbia University professor and former Computing Research Association (CRA) board member, aptly captures the current sentiment in the […]

Conversations around the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market have intensified in recent months. With high-profile announcements of layoffs and the increasing visibility of large language models (LLMs) that can generate and explain code, it’s natural that students, parents, and recent graduates are questioning the long-term value of a computer science (CS) degree.  One recent contribution to this conversation comes from Boise State University Associate Professor Casey Kennington and Clinical Instructor Andre Keys, whose recent article draws directly from The Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models, a joint whitepaper from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and CRA-Industry (CRA-I). Their piece positions the CS […]

Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — a media organization that “equips the public, policymakers, and scientists with the information needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence” and is famous for their Doomsday Clock — held a virtual program titled, “The Artificial Intelligence Era: What will the future look like.”  Nadya Bliss, a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member and the Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University, moderated the program. The speakers were Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft and a former CCC Council member, and Mary (Missy) Cummings, the director of Duke’s Humans and Autonomy Laboratory and a co-organizer of […]

Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council member Maria Gini. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Distinguished Professor of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Maria Gini was recently featured in an article highlighting the work of U of M’s Minnesota Robotics Institute (MnRI).   The Minnesota Robotics Institute is a unit of U of M’s College of Science and Engineering Department that brings together students and researchers from all over the world to pursue an education in robotics. The article highlighted a couple of ongoing and past projects that have come out of the institute including a robot used to detect autism in […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is launching the “Catalyzing Computing” podcast, which will focus on topics of interest within the computing research community. The podcast is hosted by CCC Program Associate Khari Douglas and will feature interviews with researchers and policy makers about their background and experiences in the computing community. The podcast will also offer recaps of visioning workshops and other events hosted by the CCC. If you want to learn about some of the computing community’s most influential members or keep tabs on the latest areas of interest then, this is the podcast for you! The first episode of Catalyzing Computing features an interview of CCC Council Member Suresh […]

The Communications of the ACM (CACM), the print and online publication for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), has recently released a Viewpoints article titled, “Ask Not What Your Postdoc Can Do for You” from the leads of the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Postdoc Best Practices program (Postdocs BP). The program, with the backing of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will conclude this summer.  The Postdocs BP program was a follow-on to the Computing Innovation Fellows project, which ran from 2009 – 2014.  Three different universities/consortia received awards in 2014 to develop, implement and institutionalize the implementation of best practices for supporting postdocs in computing. The three groups are: The University […]