The 2021 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award has been awarded to Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), “For advancing the security and privacy of new-generation cellular networks!” Elisa Bertino is Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. She serves as Director of the Purdue Cyberspace Security Lab (Cyber2Slab). In her role as Director of Cyber2SLab she leads multi-disciplinary research in data security and privacy. Prior to joining Purdue, she was a professor and department head at the Department of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Milan. She has been a visiting researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in […]
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.
CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino Receives the 2021 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
September 3rd, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightComputing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: National Health Symposium- Operationalizing AI in Health
September 1st, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) is hosting the 2nd Annual National Health Symposium, Sept. 14 & 15, 2020 (1:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET daily), online via ZoomGov. The symposium will explore artificial intelligence (AI) and the continuum between essential research and development through their translation from innovation into operational impact. Participants will learn about real-world AI applications for healthcare, harnessing AI technologies to accelerate advances while doing no harm, and ensuring the safety and security of healthcare while realizing AI’s full potential. Visit this website to register. The National Health Symposium will include addresses from the following keynote speakers: Christine Fox, Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis, Johns […]
NSF Advances Artificial Intelligence Research with New Nationwide Institutes
August 26th, 2020 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, NSF / by Helen WrightThe following is a press release from the National Science Foundation about the newly announced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes. In 2018-2019, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) brought together over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and Past President of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University and President of AAAI) to come up with a research roadmap for AI. The completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, was released in August 2019. One of the recommendations from the Roadmap was to create National AI Research Centers: multi-university centers with affiliated institutions that are focused on pivotal areas of […]
Medium Article- “Deconstructing the NSF CAREER Proposal”
August 25th, 2020 / in NSF, pipeline, research horizons / by Helen WrightThe following blog from Sauvik Das, Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Ph.D. from CMU HCII, was originally posted on Medium on August 23rd. I recently submitted a NSF CAREER proposal — my first attempt [1]. In the process of putting my materials together, I was fortunate to be able to learn from successful proposals written by friends and colleagues [2]. I was also fortunate to get feedback from mentors [3]. Trends emerged, and I thought I’d distill and share here on the off-chance that someone might find it helpful [4]. Disclaimer: I submitted to the Security and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, and requested examples from others who I knew submitted to that […]
NSF CISE Announcements on CAREER, CRII, No-Deadlines, and GRFP
August 24th, 2020 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightThe following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and Erwin Gianchandani (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community: With this most out-of-the-ordinary summer coming to a close, we at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CISE directorate wanted to reach out to inform you about a few specific news items. CISE Dear Colleague Letter on CAREER/CRII: In NSF Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) 20-092, CISE offered clarification on CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program as well as the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards in CISE topic areas. In a nutshell, we encourage […]
What is the right information architecture for digital contact tracing?
August 19th, 2020 / in COVID, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog from John Langford (Microsoft Research) and Stefano Tessaro (University of Washington) on finding the right information architecture for digital contact tracing. The information architecture of a system defines who has access to which pieces of information. Contact Tracing is inherently a process of data collection — therefore, the choice of information architecture has a profound effect on who is willing to work with the system and how effective it may be. In order to rationally consider the information architecture, we must define a goal for the system. Clearly, the primary goal must be epidemiological effectiveness in suppressing the spread of disease, but how should […]
