2019 CGTC/SC3, July 10-12, 2019, Washington DC, USA. The GCTC/SC3 Expo is the prominent smart city event for technology innovators, municipal officials, and federal government officials to discuss possible areas of collaboration. We are thrilled to confirm the following mayors will join us on July 11. Mayor Lily Mei, City of Fremont, California, USA Mayor Wen-Tsan Cheng, City of Taoyuan, Taiwan Mayor Bernard Dy, City of Cauayan, Philippines Mayor Pauline Cutter, City of San Leandro, California, USA Mayor Gary McCarthy, City of Schenectady, New York, USA Mayor Eugene Grant, City of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, USA US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) will work with GCTC/SC3 Expo in July as a major opportunity to invite […]

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, We want to pass along a quick update on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Congressional Appropriations for the NSF and the President’s FY 2020 Budget Request for NSF, as well as an update on the NSF Convergence Accelerator. FY 2019 Congressional Appropriations As you’ve probably read in the media, following the lapse in appropriations earlier this year, Congress passed a spending bill for FY 2019 – the current fiscal year, ending on […]

Am I safe sitting at home with my pacemaker? Am I safe shopping online? Am I safe when I am using my web-cam enabled computer? These are all real concerns brought up by audience members at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) scientific session at the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. This session called Cybersecurity: Transcending Physics, Technology, and Society was moderated by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill (University of Wisconsin-Madison). The speakers were Kevin Fu (University of Michigan), John Masters (Red Hat), and Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Kevin Fu started the session by asking the audience what happens if your […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Jacob Chakareski from the University of Alabama. Jacob published the “Viewport-adaptive Navigable 360-Degree Video Delivery” paper with Xavier Corbillon (IMT Atlantique), Alisa Devlic (Huawei), and Gwendal Simon (IMT Atlantique). It won the best paper award in the Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications category at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications. The Idea Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) hold tremendous potential to advance our society and are commonly seen as the 4th major disruptive technology wave after PC, the Internet/Web, and mobile. Together with another pair of emerging technologies, 360-degree video and holographic video, they can suspend our disbelief of being at a remote […]

How can we feed the world’s population – projected to reach ten billion people by 2050 – in a sustainable way that preserves the health of individuals, communities, and the environment? How can computer science be utilized to improve food production, processing, and distribution? These were the main topics at the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) scientific session on Sustainably Feeding Ten Billion People that took place February 16th at the AAAS 2019 Annual Meeting. The panelists for this session were Diane Wang (SUNY Buffalo), Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research), and Abraham Stroock (Cornell), while Susan McCouch (Cornell) moderated the session. Diane Wang’s presentation on Coupling Nature and Nurture: Supercharging Predictions for […]

On February 19-20, 2019 the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) co-sponsored the Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery with the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, The Alan Turing Institute, Tech Against Trafficking, University of Nottingham Rights Lab, and Arizona State University Global Security Initiative. Code 8.7 brought together computer science researchers and technologists with policy researchers, law enforcement officials, and activists involved in the fight against human trafficking. Code 8.7 was named after Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals. With Target 8.7, 193 countries agreed to take immediate and effective measures to end forced labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking by 2030, and the worst forms of child […]