Contributions to this post were provided by members of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Fairness, Accountability, Disinformation, and Explainability (FADE) Task Force. The National Security Commision on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) published a report outlining their recommendations to address challenges arising out of the expanding AI landscape – most notably the awareness of an AI competition amongst the world powers and the need for the United States to win this AI race. The recommendations spell out what the NSCAI believes will accelerate U.S performance in AI and strengthen our national security and economy. The following is a look at some key points of the recommendation report from the perspective of the […]
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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.
Thoughts on the NSCAI’s First Quarter Recommendations from the Computing Community Consortium’s FADE Task Force
June 29th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightCatalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 25 – Game-Based Learning and Photovoltaics with Erik Verlage (Part 3)
June 29th, 2020 / in podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part 3 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Dr. Erik Verlage, a research scientist at MIT who creates digital learning tools for photonics education. He is developing 3-D virtual lab environments that allow users to interact with micron-scale photonic circuit components, enabling self-directed learning for the emerging photonics workforce. His research areas include integrated photonics, photovoltaic materials, and photoelectrochemistry. In this episode we discuss integrated photonics and how optical fibers work. If you’re interested in playing one of the games mentioned on the podcast, you can reach Erik Verlage at everlage@mit.edu. If you haven’t heard parts one […]
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: Highlights of 2020 Security Conferences for Computer Architects
June 25th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightWhile some in computing saw computing security as mostly a software issue, 2018’s Meltdown and Spectre publicized that security is a hardware issue as well. This recent post in Computer Architecture Today by Dmitry Ponomarev reminds us all that hardware security is not a one-off problem, but a recurring one. In an earlier blog post, we argued that computer architects working on security problems should follow security conferences. In this post, we highlight some of the recent results from this year’s events that may be of interest to our community. While security conferences encompass many topics and typically accept more papers than architecture conferences, several sessions are usually dedicated to […]
Request for Community Feedback on BPCnet.org
June 23rd, 2020 / in Announcements, CRA, pipeline, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog from the BPCnet.org Steering Committee. To the computing community, With this particularly challenging academic year coming to an end, and the upcoming NSF CISE program submissions, it is a good time to update everyone on the NSF CISE Pilot Program for Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans. All Medium and Large CISE Core Programs, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) project proposals require an approved BPC Plan by the time of award. CRA and NCWIT have led an effort to develop the BPCnet.org portal as a resource for the community to assist in developing Departmental BPC Plans and Individual BPC Plans. New Resources on BPCnet.org: […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 24 – Game-Based Learning and Photovoltaics with Erik Verlage (Part 2)
June 22nd, 2020 / in CCC, podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part 2 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Dr. Erik Verlage, a research scientist at MIT who creates digital learning tools for photonics education. He is developing 3-D virtual lab environments that allow users to interact with micron-scale photonic circuit components, enabling self-directed learning for the emerging photonics workforce. His research areas include integrated photonics, photovoltaic materials, and photoelectrochemistry. In this episode, Erik continues to discuss building educational games and using games, virtual reality, and augmented reality for job training. If you’re interested in playing one of the games mentioned on the podcast, you can reach […]
Upcoming NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop for the CISE Community
June 19th, 2020 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightBy Thyagarajan Nandagopal, NSF You are invited to participate in the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop, to be held as an interactive online meeting on Friday, September 18th from 1pm – 5pm EST. This event is intended for PIs working in CISE-relevant research areas planning on submitting an NRT proposal for the fiscal year 2021 competition. The NSF CISE Directorate would like to increase the number of NRT proposals that advance CISE research training focus of graduate students and CISE disciplines and support the aim of the NRT program. Since the NRT program is unique at NSF, the requirements of the program are often not fully understood by the submitting PIs. The workshop […]
