As part of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Symposium, described in full here, we featured a number of visioning workshops CCC has held over the past year. CCC task force members and workshop organizers led the talks. The purpose of these sessions was to bring the community together, tell them what the CCC is doing, and then see if they could provide more insight. All the discussions that were generated from the sessions seemed to follow a general idea- computer science did X so now how do we move forward? See all the videos from the different sessions here. The sessions and their corresponding problems included: […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a visioning workshop in Atlanta, GA on March 14-15, 2019 to discuss and articulate research visions for authoring rich media content for new workforce training. The workshop aims to articulate research challenges and needs and to summarize the current state of the practice in this area. This workshop is in response to growing needs in the field and new research programs such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Advancing Cognitive and Physical Capabilities (FW-HTF). Historically, materials such as books and movies were used in addition to hands-on experiences for education and practical training. Increasingly, various other types of computer generated […]

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of the National Science and Technology Council‘s (NSTC) Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, put out a Request for Information (RFI) from the public on the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) responded to the RFI and submitted their response, which was then endorsed by a number of societies in a corresponding statement. The CCC agreed with the NITRD NCO and Select Committee “that advances in AI will have a transformational impact on society, and that sustained support for fundamental research in a wide array of AI-related topics will […]

This blog post contains contributions from an upcoming special issue of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association In April 2018, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held a visioning workshop on Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction. The workshop brought together leading researchers from computing, health informatics, behavioral medicine, and health disparities to develop an integrative research agenda that will advance sociotechnical interventions capable of reducing health disparities and improving the health outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Four main themes were addressed during the course of the workshop: Theory to Design and Implementation: “How do researchers appropriately identify and map theory to design, implementation, and evaluation?” Sociotechnical System Blackboxes: “How […]

In August, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held the Early Career Researcher Symposium (ECR) as a capstone event for the CIFellows program. It brought together 73 former CIFellows, postdoctoral students, and early career researchers in computing. The speakers were CS faculty members well established in their careers, government representatives from agencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Computing Research Association (CRA) and CCC council members and staff, and program managers from non-profits. The goal of the ECR was to provide the early career researchers advice at this juncture of their career, enable […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is seeking information on research efforts in the area of innovative, new computer hardware and software architectures with intelligent computer environments. This request for information (RFI) is issued solely for information gathering and planning purposes; it does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals. Over the past 60 years, computers have become orders-of-magnitude faster and both more complex and more diverse, but the computational model (i.e., the model for how algorithms/computations are executed) has not substantially changed. Consequently, the demands on users for system expertise have escalated to prohibitive levels. Future computing systems (FCS) should be a revolutionary class of advanced computers with both a […]