The following is a guest blog post by H.-S. Philip Wong from Stanford University.  I just came back from the exciting Architecture 2030 Visioning Workshop, organized by Luis Ceze of the University of Washington and Thomas Wenisch of the University of Michigan, and partially sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). I am not a computer architect. So one may wonder why I showed up at this workshop; maybe because it is in Seoul and I am hungry for Korean BBQ? First, I must thank Tom and Luis for inviting me to give the keynote talk at the Workshop. It was a wonderful opportunity for a device technologist like myself to have conversations with computer architects. Device technology research for the […]

The National Privacy Research Strategy by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD) has been released!  The National Privacy Research Strategy calls for research in science and engineering that will enable the U.S. to benefit from innovative data use while protecting privacy. Research agencies from across the government participated in the development of the strategy, reviewing existing Federal research activities in privacy-enhancing technologies, soliciting inputs from the private sector, and identifying priorities for privacy research funded by the Federal Government. In May 2015, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) commissioned members of the privacy research community to generate a short report to help guide strategic […]

The following blog post is by CCC executive council member and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill, who was loosely involved in the planning this workshop. I just attend the fantastic Architecture 2030 Visioning Workshop, organized by Luis Ceze of the University of Washington and Thomas Wenisch of the University of Michigan, and partially sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). The workshop was open to the public and was held in conjunction with ISCA’16 in Seoul, South Korea on June 19. It had over 130 attendees and included breakout sessions with five groups. The goal of the Architecture 2030 Workshop was to kick off a new round of visioning activities in a public forum, getting input on where our constituents believe […]

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) just released a Request For Information (RFI) on Artificial Intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies offer great promise for creating new and innovative products, growing the economy, and advancing national priorities in areas such as education, mental and physical health, addressing climate change, and more. Like any transformative technology, however, AI carries risks and presents complex policy challenges along a number of different fronts. The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is interested in developing a view of AI across all sectors for the purpose of recommending directions for research and determining challenges and opportunities in this field. The views of the […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Even with the slowing of Moore’s Law and the end of Dennard scaling, computer chips can still get dramatically better performance—without dramatically more power—by using specialized “accelerator” blocks to perform key tasks much faster (> 100x) and/or at lower power. Classic accelerators include floating-point hardware (a separately chip back in the days of the Intel 8087), graphics processing units (GPUs), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The recent explosion in the progress and importance of deep learning makes artificial neural networks a promising target for hardware acceleration. To this end, at least NINE papers at the recent International […]

The following is a guest blog post by Liz Bradley from the University of Colorado and a member of the CCC Executive Committee. Last week we summarized the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) May 2016 Symposium, Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs. This is the second of a series of blogs that will be posted about the symposium and the four different themes that were presented. One of the most dynamic and forward-looking events at the symposium was a poster session involving 38 early career faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. The interests of this group, which represents the future of the field, spanned the full range of computing research. A number of their posters described novel technologies for computer-human […]