In August 2019 the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), released A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US. The Roadmap is the output of a series of three workshops that were held in late 2018 and early 2019, with the goal of identifying challenges and opportunities to effectively inform future federal priorities, including future AI R&D Investments. The CCC and AAAI shared the roadmap findings during the Artificial Intelligence Research: A Community Roadmap scientific session at the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, which took place in Seattle, Washington in February, 2020. The session was moderated […]
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.
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Artificial Intelligence Research: A Community Roadmap
April 14th, 2020 / in AAAS, AI / by Khari DouglasComputing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment Fabrication
April 13th, 2020 / in Announcements, big science, COVID, research horizons, Research News, robotics / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog from Kristin Osborne, Communications Manager at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, at the University of Washington (UW) and CCC Council member Shwetak Patel, Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, at UW. 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 […]
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Detecting, Combating, and Identifying Dis and Mis-information
April 9th, 2020 / in AAAS, AI / by Khari DouglasOver the last twenty years, the proliferation of Internet access, coupled with the explosion of online social networks, has allowed people around the world to share their ideas and experiences with the click of a button. Beauty vloggers craft YouTube tutorials, gamers stream their performances live over Twitch, and journalists share and source news from across the world through Twitter. This web of content is always expanding—much of the information within it is true, however, plenty of it is not. How can we determine fact from fiction in this rapidly shifting information landscape? In response to these emerging concerns the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) organized the Detecting, Combating, and Identifying […]
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Decontaminating N95 Masks
April 8th, 2020 / in COVID / by Maddy HunterContributions to this post were provided by former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu from the University of Michigan. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused staggering resource shortages around the world. A lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) is forcing medical centers and first responders to reuse N95 masks. Targeting the scarcity of N95 masks for healthcare workers, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Kevin Fu has joined the effort to address this global issue of PPE shortage. Fu is co-PI of the NSF Frontiers Trustworthy Health and Wellness project, founder and chief scientist of the Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security, and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science […]
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Staying Connected
April 7th, 2020 / in CCC, COVID, policy, Privacy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog post from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Jennifer Rexford from Princeton University. Over the past few weeks, as I shelter in place like so many of us, I am increasingly grateful for the Internet. A research experiment that escaped from the lab, the Internet has become a critical global infrastructure over the past twenty years. As difficult as the current Covid-19 situation is, at least we can use the Internet to support the global collaboration of scientists, keep abreast of the latest developments, teach our students and children, stay in touch with friends and family, and even find much-needed moments of levity. The […]
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Misinformation
April 6th, 2020 / in Announcements, COVID, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightMisinformation during a national emergency is not new. In this current health crisis, the “coronavirus pandemic is generating a tidal wave of information—some of it accurate, some not so much—that has saturated social and traditional media,” as was stated in Science Magazine last week. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently held a session at AAAS called Detecting, Combating, and Identifying Dis and Mis-information. One of the speakers was Emma Spiro (University of Washington), who spoke on Misinformation in the Context of Emergencies and Disaster Events. Rumors, defined by Spiro as a “story that is unverified at the time of communication,” are widely spread during crisis events as people seek out […]
