In 2009, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) published A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (a.k.a. the Robotics Roadmap), which explored the capacity of robotics to act as a key economic enabler, specifically in the areas of manufacturing, healthcare, and the service industry, 5, 10, and 15 years into the future. An updated version of the Robotics Roadmap was released in March 2013, November 2016, and now most recently in September 2020.  With the support of the CCC (and others on the cover), three community workshops took place 11-12 September 2019 in Chicago, IL, 17-18 October 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, and 15-16 November 2019 in Lowell, MA. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be holding a program webinar about the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes on September 21, 2020, at 3:30-5:00PM ET. This webinar will cover the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes solicitation NSF 20-604, submission requirements, and program updates. Please register here for the webinar. In 2018-2019, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) brought together over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and Past President of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University and President of AAAI) to come up with a research roadmap for AI. The completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, was released in August 2019. One of the recommendations from […]

The 2021 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award has been awarded to Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), “For advancing the security and privacy of new-generation cellular networks!” Elisa Bertino is Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. She serves as Director of the Purdue Cyberspace Security Lab (Cyber2Slab). In her role as Director of Cyber2SLab she leads multi-disciplinary research in data security and privacy. Prior to joining Purdue, she was a professor and department head at the Department of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Milan. She has been a visiting researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in […]

The following is a guest blog from John Langford (Microsoft Research) and Stefano Tessaro (University of Washington) on finding the right information architecture for digital contact tracing. The information architecture of a system defines who has access to which pieces of information. Contact Tracing is inherently a process of data collection — therefore, the choice of information architecture has a profound effect on who is willing to work with the system and how effective it may be. In order to rationally consider the information architecture, we must define a goal for the system. Clearly, the primary goal must be epidemiological effectiveness in suppressing the spread of disease, but how should […]

The following is a blog from the Computing Research Association’s Bulletin, about the release of a new CRA committee report that was informed by a number of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) activities, such as the 2015 The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academia Collaboration report, the CCC Industry Working Group and resulting Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research white paper. Recent trends such as increasing industry demands for technical talent from academia, as well as changes in the academic environment with increased industry interactions have prompted the need for a fresh look at the relationships between academia and industry. In late 2019, a CRA ad hoc committee on Industry/Academia Interactions was created to study these trends and determine how CRA can […]

The following is a press release from The White House Office of  Science and Technology Policy.  Recently, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and over a dozen top U.S. industry and academic leaders launched the National Q-12 Education Partnership, a groundbreaking new initiative to expand access to K-12 quantum information science (QIS) education. As part of the announcement, NSF is awarding nearly $1 million to QIS education efforts, including the establishment of the Q2Work Program to support quantum education workforce development across the country. Private sector and academic leaders are committing to develop and provide educational programs, tools, training opportunities, and curricula […]