The American Academy of Arts & Sciences recently announced that more than 250 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2020, including Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Ronitt Rubinfeld from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” Ronitt joined the Council in 2018 and is a member of […]
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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.
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New Elected Members Including CCC Council Member Ronitt Rubinfeld
April 24th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, Research News / by Helen WrightAcademic Data Science Alliance List of Resources for COVID-19
April 23rd, 2020 / in Announcements, COVID, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a letter to the community from Micaela S. Parker, Executive Director of the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA). ADSA was launched in May 2019 to provide an independent national resource network for academic data science leaders, practitioners, and educators to connect and exchange ideas, and to advance the uptake of data science best practices in higher education. Dear Colleagues, The Academic Data Science Alliance is working with partners to pull together data sets and data science resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Initiated by conversations with Columbia, NYU, UC Berkeley, and the University of Washington, universities in three regions of the U.S. hit hard by the coronavirus, we invite the […]
Automated Contact Tracing for Fighting the Coronavirus: A Short-Term Effort with Long-Term Repercussions
April 22nd, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, COVID, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog post from Ran Canetti, a professor of Computer Science at Boston University and the Director of the Center for Reliable Information System and Cyber Security. At the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) we know that everyone is dealing with a lot in these unprecedented times. We are continuing to work on behalf of the computing research community to catalyze research, but we also want to provide ways to help the community. This blog is from a series of posts about ways computing researchers are using computing to adapt and help in these times. We hope you find something that may help you, either now or in the future. In 1945, the atomic bomb brought a swift end […]
Earth Day 2020: Using Computing to Address Grand Challenges Facing Our Planet
April 22nd, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News, resources / by Helen WrightSignificant contributions to this post were provided by former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and current Computing Research Association (CRA) Board member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota and Computing Research Association (CRA) Board member Kate Larson from the University of Waterloo as a representative of the Info-Can/CS-CAN. Fifty years ago on April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans, nearly 10% of the U.S. population at the time, took to the street, college campuses, and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet. This first Earth Day launched a modern environmental movement to promote community action to address environmental challenges. Past […]
Past CCC Council Member Daniela Rus Appointed to White House Science Council
April 22nd, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightPast Computing Community Consortium Council member Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has been appointed to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The council provides advice to the White House on topics critical to U.S. security and the economy, including policy recommendations on the future of work, American leadership in science and technology, and the support of U.S. research and development. “I’m grateful to be able to add my perspective as a computer scientist to this group at a time when so many issues involving AI and other aspects of computing raise important scientific and policy questions for […]
NIH’s Strategic Vision for Data Science: Enabling a FAIR- Data Ecosystem
April 21st, 2020 / in Announcements, Healthcare / by Helen WrightWhat if we could link the Framingham Heart Study (NHLBI) with Alzheimer’s health data (NIH) to better understand the correlative effects in cardiovascular health with aging and dementia? What if journal articles could directly link to repository data sets and the software used for the analysis of those same data? The number of possible discoveries could increase. The proliferation of data, and the accompanying computing resources and new algorithms, brings new opportunities for discovery, as well as new challenges. This is especially important during our current health crisis. This is what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hoping to do through their Strategic Plan for Data Science – modernize […]
