The National Science Foundation‘s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) established the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program more than a decade ago “to build on past successes and provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information.” Funded at levels up to $15 million for seven years, “Expeditions projects represent some of the largest single investments currently made by the CISE directorate. Together with the Science and Technology Centers and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes that CISE supports, Expeditions projects form the centerpiece of the directorate’s center-scale award portfolio.” “For over 10 […]
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.
NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
March 25th, 2020 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCCC @ AAAS 2020 – Using Computing to Sustainably Feed a Growing Population
March 24th, 2020 / in AAAS / by Khari DouglasAs the global population continues to grow, and climate change and pollution lead to environmental degradation, ensuring the future of agriculture and food production becomes increasingly imperative. What role can computing research play in alleviating these challenges going forward? The impact of computing technology on the future of agriculture and plant science was the subject of the Using Computing to Sustainably Feed a Growing Populations scientific session at the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual meeting in Seattle, Washington one month ago. This session was moderated by Lucas Joppa, the Chief Environmental Officer at Microsoft, and co-organized by Shashi Shekhar (CRA Board Member) and James Hodson (AI for Good […]
White House Announces New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight COVID-19
March 23rd, 2020 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightFrom the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with access to the world’s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus. This unique public-private consortium, spearheaded by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, IBM, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation, includes the following government, industry, and academic leaders who have volunteered free compute time and resources on their machines: Industry IBM Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Microsoft […]
ACM Announces 2019 Turing Award Recipients
March 18th, 2020 / in awards, pipeline, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following blog is from the ACM Bulletin on March 18, 2020. ACM has named Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull recipients of the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan have fundamentally influenced the field of computer graphics through conceptual innovation and contributions to both software and hardware. Their work has had a revolutionary impact on filmmaking, leading to a new genre of entirely computer-animated feature films beginning 25 years ago with Toy Story and continuing to the present day. Catmull is a computer […]
Computing Research at AAAS
March 17th, 2020 / in AAAS, Announcements, research horizons / by Helen WrightThe following blog is from Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC Director. Every February brings an exciting event for scientists – the AAAS Annual Meeting. AAAS is the American Association for the Advancement of Science, whose mission is to “advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.” It is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and the publisher of the Science family of journals. This year’s Annual Meeting brought scientists, engineers, and press from around the world to Seattle, Washington for three days of scientific sessions, panels, press events, discussions, and plenary talks in many different disciplines of science. “Computer science touches almost every aspect of our society today so it […]
NEWS: Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset
March 16th, 2020 / in Announcements / by Helen WrightFrom the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the coronavirus group. Requested by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the dataset represents the most extensive machine-readable coronavirus literature collection available for data and text mining to date, with over 29,000 articles, more than 13,000 of which have full text. Now, The White House joins […]
