The following post was contributed by CCC Director,  Ann Schwartz Drobnis.  The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of Federal agencies and the NITRD National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Fast-Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Strategic Computing (SC), put out a Request for Information (RFI) from the public to update for the Strategic Computing R&D goals and approaches. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) responded to the RFI on behalf of the community. Some snippets from CCC’s response: Many—if not most—of the benefits that information technology has provided to society have in turn depended on tremendous progress in technology (Moore’s Law) and in hardware designs for compute, storage, and communication. Future information […]

Today, the White House, through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), issued a plan for Federal engagement in the development of technical standards for artificial intelligence (AI). The plan was called for as part of the national strategy for U.S. leadership in AI, the American AI Initiative, launched by Executive Order in February 2019. After receiving broad public input, the technical standards plan provides guidance for Federal agencies, the private sector, and the academic community in the development of technical standards and related tools in support of reliable, robust, and trustworthy AI systems, and identifies priorities for Federal government involvement and leadership in AI standards development. “The Trump […]

CCC Chair Mark D. Hill, CCC Vice-Chair Liz Bradley, and CCC Director Ann Schwartz Drobnis provided significant contributions to this post. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to release the completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, titled A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US! An HTML version is available here. This roadmap is the result of a year long effort by the CCC and over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and President of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University and President Elect of AAAI). Comments on a draft report of this roadmap were requested in May 2019. Thank you to everyone in the […]

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) requests input from all interested parties on the VIA Task Force Report: R&D Opportunities in Video & Image Analytics. Responses to this Request for Information (RFI) can be general suggestions of revisions or improvements to the VIA Task Force Report, comments on the six strategic goals and objectives, and suggestions to the implementation of the strategic goals and objectives. The public input provided in response to this RFI will inform NITRD NCO, and the VIA Task Force on developing the VIA Task Force Report: R&D Opportunities in Video & Image Analytics. The VIA Task Force seeks the following […]

The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).  Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, As many of you know, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has a long history of investing in education and workforce development across all areas of science and engineering, including CISE areas. For example, you may recall that last fall we highlighted one such opportunity – the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) – which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions.  You […]

CCC Council member Ben Zorn provided contributions to this post. Recently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released a new industry report called the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research, which was organized by Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research and chair of the CCC Industry Working Group. The working group started in 2018 with a mission to see if the environment described by the 2015 CCC industry round table report called The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations had changed at all. Turns out it has and a lot! Since then several important trends in computing research have emerged. This new report considers how these trends impact the interaction between academia […]