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.


NIH’s Strategic Vision for Data Science: Enabling a FAIR- Data Ecosystem

April 21st, 2020 / in Announcements, Healthcare / by Helen Wright

What 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 […]

CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Next Generation Computer Hardware

April 20th, 2020 / in AAAS / by Khari Douglas

Computing technologies have revolutionized the world, from how we grow food to our social interactions. At the core of this revolution is computing hardware, the shrinking of which has allowed for powerful computation in the palm of your hand. Unfortunately, Moore’s law is coming to an end and we will no longer be able to build more powerful computers using traditional CMOS-based hardware. What other bases for computing hardware are out there? The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) organized the Next Generation Computer Hardware scientific session at the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual meeting in February to discuss this topic and share some potential avenues for future research. […]

Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Voxel51; A Means of Tracking Social Distancing

April 16th, 2020 / in COVID, Great Innovative Idea / by Maddy Hunter

Contributions to this post were provided by the Voxel51 team. 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. Empty parks, X’s taped to the floor in check-out lines, virtual family holidays, these are all part of the new norm thanks to […]

CISE, SBE and the Evolving and Expanding Role of Ethics at NSF and Beyond

April 16th, 2020 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen Wright

Contributions to this post were provided by Fred Kronz, SBE/NSF.  The responsible and ethical conduct of research involves not only a responsibility to generate and disseminate knowledge with rigor and integrity, but also a responsibility to: Conduct peer review with the highest ethical standards; Diligently protect proprietary information and intellectual property from inappropriate disclosure; and Treat students and colleagues fairly and with respect. Recently, at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council meeting, Fred Kronz, a Program Director in the Division of Social & Economic Sciences in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), presented on CISE, SBE and the Evolving and Expanding […]

NSF Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks (D-ISN) Solicitation

April 15th, 2020 / in Announcements, conferences, NSF, policy, Privacy, research horizons, Research News, resources, Security / by Helen Wright

With input from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently published a new solicitation on Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks (D-ISN) “to support the research needed to inform the economy, security, and resilience of the Nation and the world in responding to the global threat posed by illicit supply networks.” The proposal deadline is July 1st, 2020.  Major goals of NSF’s D-ISN include: Improve understanding of the operations of illicit supply networks and strengthen the ability to detect, disrupt, and dismantle them. Enhance research communities that effectively integrate operational, computational, social, cultural and economic expertise to […]

Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Operationalizing AI in Health

April 15th, 2020 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, COVID, Healthcare, research horizons, Research News, robotics / by Helen Wright

“Applying AI in real-world applications requires an understanding of operational realities and human workflows – especially in healthcare applications. My colleagues and I at Johns Hopkins APL are kicking off series of virtual events to look at this more closely, beginning on 4/21 with a focus on the use of AI technology to aid with the COVID-19 pandemic.”- Ashley Llorens, Chief of the Intelligent Systems Center at APL As a precursor to the 2020 National Health Symposium, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is hosting a virtual event exploring Operationalizing AI in Health on April 21. Event: Operationalizing AI in Health Date: April 21, 2020 Time: 3:00pm ET – 4:30pm ET Location: […]