The following is an announcement from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Convergence Accelerator issued a Dear Colleague Letter (NSF-21-012): Request for Information (RFI) on Future Topics for the NSF Convergence Accelerator program to capture national-scale societal impact ideas from the global community for fiscal year 2022. The RFI is the kickoff of the Convergence Accelerator’s ideation process. Selected ideas will be asked to submit a conference proposal to further develop the proposed idea and to gather insights into a final report to assist NSF in determining convergence research topics for 2022. RFI DETAILS Participants from academia, industry, government, non-profit, and other sectors are encouraged to submit their ideas here. Responses […]
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.
NSF Wants Your Ideas! Requesting Future Topics for the NSF Convergence Accelerator
October 21st, 2020 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightAttend the Upcoming Departmental BPC Plan Workshop Starting on October 29
October 20th, 2020 / in Announcements, CRA / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog from BPCnet.org Resource Portal. The Computing Research Association (CRA) is hosting the third workshop in its series of Departmental BPC Plan workshops starting on October 29, 2020. All departments with faculty submitting CISE proposals are welcome to attend this workshop. The structure for this workshop is as follows: Presentation Day – October 29, 2020 Writing Day #1 – November 12, 2020 (optional) Writing Day #2 – December 3, 2020 (optional) On the presentation day, academic departments will learn about the NSF CISE requirements and expectations for BPC Plans. The workshop will also cover in-depth discussions on BPC Plan components and have BPC experts available for […]
Smart Cities Week Global- A Month of Collaborative Engagement (Oct 19-Nov 10, 2020)
October 19th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThis year Smart Cities Week is taking on a big challenge with a month of online virtual collaborative global engagement from October 19-November 10th, 2020. Called “A New Horizon: From Crisis, Opportunity,” it will explore a new horizon with thousands of fellow smart city policy-makers and practitioners. “Though our name specifies smart cities, innovative technologies are in demand at all levels of government—from innovation districts and port authorities to states, provinces and federal agencies.The smart cities ecosystem is extensive, involving numerous external stakeholders and collaborators – nonprofits, academics, financiers and private sector smart city specialists among them. Expect to connect with people from a wide range of sectors and disciplines, […]
CCC/NAE Workshop Report- The Role of Robotics in Infectious Disease Crises
October 13th, 2020 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, COVID, robotics, workshop reports / by Helen WrightIn an effort to prepare for the next pandemic and perhaps aid in the current one, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), along with the National Academy of Engineering, hosted a virtual workshop entitled Role of Robotics in Infectious Disease Crises on July 9-10, 2020. Organized by Gregory Hager (The Johns Hopkins University), Vijay Kumar (The University of Pennsylvania), Robin Murphy (Texas A&M University), Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Russell Taylor (The Johns Hopkins University), the workshop consisted of over forty participants including representatives from the engineering/robotics community, clinicians, critical care workers, public health and safety experts, and emergency responders. Today we are pleased to release the resulting report […]
CCC Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at AAMAS 2021
October 7th, 2020 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021) on May 3-7, 2021. The emphasis of this special track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative ideas, and aims to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented standards followed in the review process of the main track of the conference. Research visions and ideas could cross disciplines, envisioning new ideas, and directions relevant for Agents and Multi-Agent […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 28 – Global Security and Graph Analytics with Nadya Bliss (Part 2)
October 5th, 2020 / in podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Nadya Bliss, the Executive Director of Arizona State’s Global Security Initiative and a CCC Council Member. Before joining ASU in 2012, Bliss spent 10 years at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, most recently as a founding group leader of the Computing and Analytics Group. In this episode, she discusses the work of Arizona State University’s Global Security Initiative, how to combat the spread of misinformation and the impact of sustainability on security. Enjoy. You can stream the episode in the embedded player below or find it on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | iHeartRadio | Youtube. If you […]
