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/VMware Partnership on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program

August 18th, 2020 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen Wright

The following is an announcement of a joint solicitation between NSF/VMware on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and VMware employee Sujata Banerjee is involved with this program but was not involved with CCC’s decision to reblog it. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is holding a webinar on Monday, August 31st from 1-2 PM EDT about the new The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. The goal of this joint solicitation between NSF and VMware is to foster novel, transformative research in fundamental and systematic approaches that bring dramatic increases in the environmental sustainability of the Digital Infrastructure leading to practical methodologies and tools. The Digital Infrastructure […]

Apply to Attend the 2nd Annual Embedded Security Workshop

August 17th, 2020 / in Announcements, Security / by Khari Douglas

Interested in embedded security? Apply to join the second annual Embedded Security Workshop. The workshop will be hosted by Kevin Fu, former CCC Council Member and principal investigator of the SPQR Lab at the University of Michigan. From their website: “The workshop consists of a diverse set of talks by leading faculty and industrial researchers across the world ranging from medical device security to physics of analog sensor cybersecurity. Students will give lightning pitches of their research and participate in small breakout groups for discussion. The speakers range from industrial researchers to practicing neurosurgeons. The event focuses on improving diversity and inclusion for leading research in embedded security. There is […]

CRA Committee on Industry/Academia Interactions Releases Report

August 13th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright

The following is a blog from the Computing Research Association’s Bulletin, about the release of a new CRA committee report that was informed by a number of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) activities, such as the 2015 The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academia Collaboration report, the CCC Industry Working Group and resulting Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research white paper. Recent trends such as increasing industry demands for technical talent from academia, as well as changes in the academic environment with increased industry interactions have prompted the need for a fresh look at the relationships between academia and industry. In late 2019, a CRA ad hoc committee on Industry/Academia Interactions was created to study these trends and determine how CRA can […]

Blue Sky Conference Track at AAMAS 2020

August 12th, 2020 / in Announcements, Blue Sky / by Helen Wright

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, May 9 – 13, 2020, online.  The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations were aimed at presenting ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, e.g., new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research. Two First Place Papers “New Foundations of Ethical Multiagent Systems” Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah Nirav Ajmeri Catholijn Jonker Munindar Singh “Agents are Dead. Long live Agents!” Virginia Dignum Frank Dignum Second Place “Live Simulations” Samarth Swarup Henning Mortveit CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you […]

CCC Reversible Classical Computing Workshop – Position Papers Submission Deadline Extended to August 21st

August 11th, 2020 / in Announcements / by Khari Douglas

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering challenges in adiabatic/ reversible classical computing. This workshop will gather the research community in this field, lay a common foundation of existing state-of-the-art knowledge, and work together to prepare a comprehensive workshop report that can make the case for a major new initiative effectively to federal-level decision-makers. Workshop participants will be selected by invitation only. We seek short position papers to help us create the agenda for the workshop and select attendees. The submission deadline to submit a position paper has been […]

New National Q-12 Education Partnership with Industry and Academic Leaders

August 10th, 2020 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright

The following is a press release from The White House Office of  Science and Technology Policy.  Recently, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and over a dozen top U.S. industry and academic leaders launched the National Q-12 Education Partnership, a groundbreaking new initiative to expand access to K-12 quantum information science (QIS) education. As part of the announcement, NSF is awarding nearly $1 million to QIS education efforts, including the establishment of the Q2Work Program to support quantum education workforce development across the country. Private sector and academic leaders are committing to develop and provide educational programs, tools, training opportunities, and curricula […]