The National Science Foundation (NSF) is calling for U.S. PIs with an active NSF award  to apply for their Building Collaborations: U.S. – India Workshop. To be held virtually on March 15th and March 22nd from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM US Eastern Time, the workshop seeks to support research collaborations via a joint U.S.-India funding opportunity. Applications are being accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis through March 1, 2022.  The joint funding opportunity is supported by nine programs in the NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and six Indian Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) to provide supplemental funding for collaborative projects in […]

The Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) AI.gov just launched the AI Researchers Portal. This portal was established by the National AI Initiative Office, in partnership with Federal departments and agencies and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development National Coordination Office. The platform provides a central location for researchers to explore Federal AI resources. This exciting new resource will make it easier for new and experienced researchers to explore what is available to those working on AI innovations and research. Some of the tools include: Navigating Federal Research Funding Processes – information about the federal grant and funding processes for new researchers. AI Research Program Repository – a directory […]

Significant contributions to this post were provided by CCC Senior Program Associate, Khari Douglas.  The Marconi Society, a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to bridging the digital divide, held a virtual symposium on Friday, October 22nd, to celebrate the newest Marconi Fellow Andrea Goldsmith.  Friday’s symposium was really a call to action for the computing, and specifically networking, community. The three keynote speakers Doreen Bogdan-Martin (International Telecommunications Union), Jessica Rosenworcel (Federal Communications Commission), and Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University) all made the case for the urgent, pressing need for expanding access to connectivity.  In her keynote, Bogdan-Martin stated that 3.7 billion people still have no online connectivity, which is […]

In October 2020, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released more than a dozen white papers exploring areas and issues around computing research with the potential to address national priorities over the next four years. Called “Quadrennial Papers,” the white papers attempt to portray a broad picture of computing research detailing potential research directions, challenges, and recommendations for policymakers and the computing research community. As a continuation of our 2020 series, we are delighted to release two more papers titled: “Taking Stock of the Present and Future of Smart Technologies for Older Adults and Caregivers” and “Imagine All the People: Citizen Science, Artificial Intelligence, and […]

AI for Good Global Summit is hosting a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour on Wednesday, February 24th from 10AMb – 11:30AM EST. This panel will bring together Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Execuitve Council member Nadya Bliss (ASU) along with other members of the CCC/Code 8.7 visioning workshop on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery including Alice Eckstein (UNU-CPR), James Goulding (University Of Nottingham), and Anjali Mazumder (The Alan Turing Institute). The goal of the webinar is to discuss promising research avenues within AI and Computational Science as well as some specific cases in which application of these technologies are supporting […]

Significant contributions were provided by CCC Senior Program Associate, Khari Douglas.  The virtual AAAS 2021 meeting took place February 8th – 11th, 2021 and included a highly topical session titled Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Societal Impacts: An Inflection Point. The February 10th event included former Computing Research Association (CRA) board member Moshe Vardi (Rice University), Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah), Seny Kamara (Brown University), and Dan Reed (University of Utah) as speakers. This session aimed to show how the computing revolution has democratized access to information and disrupted entire economic sectors, with associated human effects, both positive and negative. Likewise, this computing revolution […]