The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is virtual this year! Like many things in 2020, it might not be the same experience, but the positive is that it can now be viewed by everyone here on the Livestream from 10AM- 4PM ET Monday (September 21st) through Thursday (September 24th). Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Senior Program Associate Khari Douglas will be attending the virtual HLF to podcast and blog about the various talks and panels. Additionally, CCC Council member Shwetak Patel from the Univeristy of Washington will be talking on Tuesday, September 22nd at 10:30AM ET on Learning From Global Health Research to Address the Current Pandemic and then leading and participating […]
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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Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2020
September 21st, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, conferences, COVID, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightNational Science Foundation and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy initiate collaborative effort to develop critical resources for quantum education
June 3rd, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, NSF, podcast, policy / by Helen WrightThe following is a recent announcement from NSF and OSTP regarding growing the workforce for the advancement of quantum education. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held a Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role workshop in May 2018, which produced this workshop report. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are actively engaged in educating, growing and sustaining a qualified workforce for the advancement of Quantum Information Science and Technology. NSF, in close coordination with OSTP, initiated and funded a virtual workshop hosted by the Harvard University, Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM) in March 2020. Entitled “Key Concepts for Future […]
AAAS Human Impacts of AI Symposium June 11th
June 1st, 2020 / in AAAS, Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightJoin the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows for a virtual symposium on Living with AI: The Human Impacts of AI on June 11 from 9:00 AM ET- 4:30 PM ET. Please register here! Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how we think about every aspect of our daily lives, impacting our food, health, work, and society. Public discourse often focuses on AI as a social good that will increase efficiency and improve outcomes for all, without examining how racial, ethnic, and gender biases can be encoded into the underlying algorithms. Building on the recommendations of the National AI R&D Strategic Plan, this symposium will provide a nuanced perspective on […]
NAM Selects Computer Scientist Ehsan Hoque as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholars
May 28th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, pipeline, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightFrom a press release from the University of Rochester. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced the 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars. One of the ten selected emerging leaders is Ehsan Hoque, an assistant professor of computer science, and affiliate faculty for the Goergen Institute for Data Science, at the University of Rochester. He leads the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction (ROC HCI) Lab. “These individuals are early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, from emergency medicine and health economics to biomedical engineering and research and public health policy. The scholars are an essential part of a major NAM initiative, the Emerging Leaders in […]
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: A Vision of Computer Architecture Visioning
May 27th, 2020 / in big science, CCC, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following blog was originally posted in ACM SIGARCH on May 26th, 2020. It is written by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Hill is the recipient of the 2019 Eckert-Mauchly award, a lifetime achievement award in computer architecture. TL;DR: This post reviews some successful visioning in computer architecture and related fields. It argues why visioning is necessary for our field to flourish and discusses how the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has facilitated some of this. Visioning is especially critical now as disruptions arrive from many quarters. Visioning: The development of a plan, goal, or vision for the future. From Latin videre–to see. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” […]
DESIGNING OUR FUTURE: A Webinar Panel Discussion on Artificial Intelligence
May 6th, 2020 / in AI, Announcements, NSF, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is an upcoming webinar on how AI is being used in the fight against COVID-19, hosted by NSF, Axios, and the British Embassy. Artificial Intelligence is poised to transform the modern world. In the short term, AI is being deployed like never before to combat COVID-19 as governments, businesses, and health organizations leverage the technology in unprecedented ways to respond to the pandemic. In the long term, AI will represent a step change for the economy, how we live and work, and society at large. If widely adopted, AI could add $330 billion to the UK economy alone by 2030 as it optimizes existing sectors and generates entirely […]
