Significant 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 […]
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.
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 WrightPast 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 […]
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Next Generation Computer Hardware
April 20th, 2020 / in AAAS / by Khari DouglasComputing 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 HunterContributions 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 WrightContributions 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 […]
