The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NobleReach Emerge are teaming up to push forward biotechnology development and translation. Biotechnology is a growing market that has enormous potential to benefit society. This $5 million partnership seeks to translate NSF-funded research into marketable bio-inspired designs that will have breakthrough commercial and societal impacts. NobleReach Emerge is a nonprofit that seeks to identify emerging technologies, and bridge ideas into action. NobleReach Emerge has experienced advisors that assess potential paths to product development and a research teams’ business fundamentals. “We want to ensure that all investigators with interest and whose science has commercial potential can make it through the lab-to-market pipeline. This new partnership […]

The CCC would like to give a special thanks to everyone from the community for their support and participation over the past year. We accomplished a lot of important work in 2022, including getting back to in-person events. Our accomplishments could not have been done without our community volunteers and participants. Please see some of CCC’s highlights from 2022 below or on the CCC webpage. Workshop Reports Meta Hybrid Report – March 2022 From the 2021 The CCC Hybrid Workshop on Best Practices for Hybrid Workshops White Papers Research Opportunities in Evidence-Based Elections Blogs  Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop CIFellows Spotlight: Alexis […]

The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the ICMI 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. The conference was held in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India on on November 7-11th. 1st Place: “On the Horizon: Interactive and Compositional Deepfakes” by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft. 2nd Place: “Beyond the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction: A Centennial Vision of Interplanetary Virtual Spaces in Turn-based Metaverse” by Lik Hang Lee (KAIST), Carlos Bermejo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ahmad Alhilal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Tristan Braud (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Simo Hosio (University of Oulu), Esmée de Haas, and Pan Hui Hong Kong University of Science […]

Gokul Subramanian Ravi began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD (focused on computer architecture) from the  University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2020. Gokul is currently at the University of Chicago working on quantum computing with Frederic Chong, Seymour Goodman Professor of Computer Science. Linked are his blogs on variational quantum algorithms and bringing more classical computer architects into the quantum world. Gokul is currently on the 2022-23 academic job market. The remainder of this post is written by Gokul Ravi Current Project Quantum computing is a disruptive technological paradigm with the potential to revolutionize computing, and therefore, the world. Over three decades, the promise of quantum computing […]

The Marconi Society will host a free virtual Symposium, The Decade of Digital Inclusion, on November 2-3, 2022.  The Marconi Society is a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to creating digital equity.  This event honors wireless innovator, Siavash Alamouti, recipient of the Eric E. Sumner Award, and the program includes a number of technology notables. With nearly half the world unconnected and $42B in broadband infrastructure funding going out to states in the US right now, digital equity is center stage in the journey to bring opportunity to everyone. The Decade of Digital Inclusion brings together technologists, policy makers and digital inclusion advocates to create collaborations to bridge […]

Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science Professor at Rice University and Senior Editor of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), wrote an article in the November 2022 issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine, Accountability and Liability in Computing. The article articulates his concerns for the slow progress and lack of conclusive knowledge on how to build secure information systems. Vardi speculates the issue is not due to a lack of technical advancements but a lack of incentives encouraging hardware security developments and solutions. It is becoming vital to address this “market failure” as we become more reliant on technical systems and become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.  Vardi […]