The US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Transportation System has released a Request for Information on Integration of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) into the Highway Transportation System. Responses are due February 24th, 2018.  Summary: Automated Driving Systems (ADS) are increasling being tested and introduced onto the public roadways. The FHWA is interested in hearing from the public, including stakeholders (e.g. State and local agencies, vehicle manufacturing industry, road hardware and intelligent transportation systems industry, related associations, transporation advocates, ADS hardware and software platform developers, etc.) on a range of issues related to assessing the infrastructure requirements and standards that may be necessary for enabling safe and efficient operations of ADS. For […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018 Annual Meeting this weekend, February 15-19, 2018 in Austin, TX. CCC Executive Council Member Dan Lopresti will be moderating a session called Rethinking Approaches to Disaster Management and Public Safety With Intelligent Infrastructure on February 16, 2018 from 8:00-9:30AM in Room 19A of the Austin Convention Center. Speakers and Talk Titles: Michael Dunaway, University of Louisiana, Lafayette Public Safety Considerations for Smart, Connected Communities Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University Robots, Emergency Management, and People Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine Enabling Resilient Situational Awareness in Disasters: A Cross-Layer Approach Abstract: Modern societies can be understood […]

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 CISE Community,   Each year, the President transmits to Congress a budget request for the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, including a request for the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Today, the President officially submitted that request for fiscal year (FY) 2019, which begins October 1, 2018, and continues through September 30, 2019.  The President’s FY 2019 Budget Request proposes $7.472 billion for NSF, which is flat with respect to the FY 2017 budget.  Dr. France Córdova, the NSF Director, […]

The following blog was written by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As previously reported in the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, two major hardware security design flaws—dubbed Meltdown and Spectre—were broadly revealed to the public in early January 2018. These flaws are described in detail by the discoverers in research papers on Meltdown and Spectre, as well as Google blog posts here and here. Understanding these sources, however, requires considerable expertise and effort. For this reason, I have prepared a slide deck (animated PPTX or PDF) to give the general computer science audience the gist of these security flaws and their implications. My goal […]

The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. CCC conducts activities that strengthen the research community, articulate compelling research visions and align those visions with pressing national and global challenges. CCC communicates the importance of those visions to policymakers, government and industry stakeholders, the public, and the research community itself. In accordance with the mission, CCC is issuing a new call for proposals for workshops that will catalyze and enable innovative research at the frontiers of computing. From the solicitation:  A well-formulated proposal should do the following: Describe the visioning topic area and its current state of development within the field, […]

National Academy of Sciences’ Sackler Colloquium on Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity will be in Washington, DC at the National Academy of Sciences (2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20418) on March 13-14, 2018. Our ambition is to redirect the history of ideas, restoring the Leonardo-like close linkage between art/design and science/engineering. We believe that internet-enabled collaborations can make more people more creative more of the time. 50 years ago in an era of political turmoil, the artistic response was captured in a famed exhibit on Cybernetic Serendipity that celebrated how individual artists could creatively transform computers into art machines. The rock star artists entranced 40,000 viewers with never-before seen images, […]