The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) are pleased to announce a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020. This program recognizes the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic uncertainty and aims to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates in computing. The goal of the program is to create career growth opportunities that support maintaining the computing research pipeline. Computing research is defined as any area included under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. This effort takes inspiration from CRA/CCC’s NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellows Programs […]
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.
Computing Innovation Fellows Program 2020
May 14th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, CIFellows, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterWomen in Theory Presents – I Will Survive
May 13th, 2020 / in CCC, pipeline, research horizons, Research News, videos / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog from CCC Chair Mark D. Hill. In these troubled times of COVID-19, it is especially helpful to remember a joie de vivre. The Women of (Computer Science) Theory (WIT) convincingly demonstrate this—together but with appropriate social distance—in WIT Presents – I Will Survive (3 minutes). Several performers have connections with the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), including CCC Council member Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT) and former CCC Council member Tal Rabin (Algorand Foundation). Rebecca Wright (Barnard College) is on the CRA-Widening Participation Board of Directors, Shuchi Chawla (University of Wisconsin Madison) attended the CCC Theoretical Foundations for Social Computing in 2015, […]
2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork
May 12th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Donald E. Knuth Prize is awarded yearly for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time. This year the Donald E. Knuth Prize will be awarded to former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Cynthia Dwork of Harvard University for fundamental and lasting contributions to computer science. From the announcement: “Dwork is one of the most influential theoretical computer scientists of her generation. Her research has transformed several fields, most notably distributed systems, cryptography, and data privacy, and her current work promises to add fairness in algorithmic decision making to the list. She is widely known for the introduction and development of dierential privacy, […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 21 – Ice Cores and Chaos Theory with Liz Bradley (Part 1)
May 11th, 2020 / in AI, 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. Liz Bradley, the current Vice-chair of the CCC Council. Bradley has been with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder since January of 1993, and her current research focuses on nonlinear dynamics and chaos, as well as scientific computation and AI. In this episode we discuss teaching computational thinking, participating in the olympics, and using math and computing to analyze ice cores. Stream in the embedded player below or find the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | iHeartRadio | Youtube. If you are interested in appearing in an episode of the Catalyzing Computing […]
CCC Announces New Council Members
May 7th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, NSF / by Helen WrightThe Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Research Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech Holly Yanco, UMass Lowell Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms. The CCC Council is comprised of 20 members who have expertise in diverse areas of computing. They are instrumental in leading CCC’s visioning programs, which help catalyze and enable ideas for future computing research. Members serve staggered three-year terms that rotate every July. The CCC […]
DESIGNING OUR FUTURE: A Webinar Panel Discussion on Artificial Intelligence
May 6th, 2020 / in AI, Announcements, NSF, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is an upcoming webinar on how AI is being used in the fight against COVID-19, hosted by NSF, Axios, and the British Embassy. Artificial Intelligence is poised to transform the modern world. In the short term, AI is being deployed like never before to combat COVID-19 as governments, businesses, and health organizations leverage the technology in unprecedented ways to respond to the pandemic. In the long term, AI will represent a step change for the economy, how we live and work, and society at large. If widely adopted, AI could add $330 billion to the UK economy alone by 2030 as it optimizes existing sectors and generates entirely […]
