I had the opportunity to attend the CCC-sponsored workshop, “A Research Roadmap for Robotics in Manufacturing and Automation“, which took place in Washington, DC on June 17, 2008. Below is a loosely-edited excerpt of the notes I took during the workshop. The intention is to convey a general sense of what happened at this meeting, and how we can apply the lessons of this workshop to other CCC initiatives. Workshop Notes (excerpts) There were 35 people in attendance, including Joe Bordogna (former COO NSF), Clint Kelly (formerly DARPA), Elena Messina (NIST), William Joyner (Semiconductor Research Corporation), people from industry (General Motors, General Electric, ABB, C&S Whole Grocers, Willow Garage,…), plus […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
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CCC Robotics Connects with Industry and Government
June 10th, 2008 / in CCC, Research News, robotics, workshop reports / by Andrew McCallumThe CCC-sponsored robotics initiative kicks off next week with the first of four workshops covering the impact, applications and emerging technologies of robotics. Robotics research and development have already transformed our lives in many ways: they perform nearly all the welding and painting on the cars we drive; they enable telerobotic surgery resulting in more reliable outcomes and faster recovery times; they perform millions of scientific experiments and observations in chemistry, biology and medical labs. Increasingly robotics is also providing improved control and functionality in people’s daily lives: some new model cars can park themselves or provide advanced distance-keeping cruise control and collision warnings; millions of autonomous vacuum cleaners are […]
Big Data Computing Group Kicks Off
May 2nd, 2008 / in workshop reports / by Peter LeeThe CCC “Big Data Computing Study Group” helped organize two adjacent events in Sunnyvale in March: the “Hadoop Summit” and the “Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC) Symposium”. The Hadoop Summit was an open event, hosted by Yahoo! Research. Its goal was to build a community among users of the open-source Hadoop software suite for distributed programming in the map-reduce style. About 350 people attended, a much larger crowd than originally expected. The DISC Symposium was an invitation-only event (~125 attendees) whose goal was to build a community among DISC researchers. The presentations at the Hadoop Summit were fascinating. While they varied greatly in technical depth, in total they gave a sense […]
