What happens when you put a room full of computing researchers on the spot and ask them to dream big off the top of their heads? That’s the premise behind the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC’s) session during the CRA Summit at Mystic Lake Center. On Thursday, July 23rd, members of the CCC Council Executive Committee will host Yes, And: Computing Visioning Improv, a session that trades a polished panel presentation for spontaneous, crowdsourced ideas. The session aims to bring researchers from across various fields together to do some off-the-cuff visioning, imagining in unusual ways what the field could be capable of long-term. A New Computing Card Game The format is […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored the creation of a Blue Sky Track for visionary papers at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026), held 25–29 May 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS is the largest conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing a forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field. AAMAS is the flagship conference of the non-profit International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Winners First Place Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and […]

Visioning is at the core of what the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) does, but it can be a nebulous concept. What does it mean to actually “do visioning”? Why does it matter for computing research? And where does CCC come into the picture? Our new Visioning in Action series aims to answer those questions and more by providing a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes of our current visioning initiatives. Learn about how our workshops, reports, Community Chats, and more come to be through the words of community members who work with us.  For the first part of this series and to learn more about the Defining the Role of Computing Interfaces […]

The second-ever CCC Community Chat, A New Era of Scientific Progress: Uniting Computational and Citizen Science for Advanced Research, took place on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. Moderated by CCC Council Member Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), this virtual webinar featured the co-authors of the recent Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research workshop report as they presented key findings and took questions from the audience about how advanced computing and public participation in science can mutually enrich each other. Watch the Recording Here Both the Community Chat and the CCC workshop report — co-authored by Lucy Fortson (University of Minnesota), Lea Shanley (International Computer Science […]

The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) latest report, Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research, lays out the potential of citizen science research and advanced computing technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), when brought together, to revolutionize the contemporary scientific research landscape. Co-authors Lucy Fortson (University of Minnesota), Lea Shanley (International Computer Science Institute and GNIES, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Tanya Berger-Wolf (The Ohio State University), Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University), Haley Griffin (Computing Research Association), Corey Jackson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Saiph Savage (Northeastern University) also demonstrate the broader applications of this union for challenges across ecological, infrastructural, clinical, and other domains — plus how to make it a […]

Visioning is at the core of what the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) does, but it can be a nebulous concept. What does it mean to actually “do visioning”? Why does it matter for computing research? And where does CCC come into the picture? Our new Visioning in Action series aims to answer those questions and more by providing a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes of our current visioning initiatives. Learn about how our workshops, reports, Community Chats, and more come to be through the words of community members who work with us. Getting to Know Defining the Role of Computing Research in Neural Interface Design In April 2025, CCC hosted the […]