The following blog was written by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Due to technology challenges and potential societal benefits, NSF has provided sustained funding for issues surrounding effective scaling of parallel and distributed computing, including through the Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) Program, begun in 2012, and the Scalable Parallelism in the Extreme (SPX) Program, started in 2016. To illuminate directions in this area, NSF commissioned a workshop held in June 2019 as part of the Federated Computing Research Conference and led by Michael Carbin of MIT and Scott D. Stoller of Stony Brook University. The workshop report was recently issued. […]
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 Workshop on Report on Future Directions for Parallel and Distributed Computing (SPX 2019)
January 6th, 2020 / in NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightDARPA ISAT Study Outbrief: I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution
December 18th, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog from Sarita V. Adve from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ratislav Bodik and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington, co-organizers of the DARPA ISAT I-USHER study. We are pleased to share the results of a DARPA ISAT study, I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution, arguing for new hardware/software interfaces to enable the revolution promised by hardware specialization. Advances in hardware specialization are expected to deliver several orders of magnitude improvements in performance, cost, and energy efficiency over the next decade, bringing the promise of revolutionizing applications in datacenters to invisible computing. To harness the power of this new class […]
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
December 12th, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), the CCC provides a voice for the national computing research community, and facilitates the development of a bold, multi-themed vision for computing research, and communicates that vision to a wide range of major stakeholders. To fulfill its mission, the CCC needs truly visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work hard to see things to completion. The Council is comprised of 20 diverse researchers from across […]
Appointment of Dr. Gurdip Singh as Division Director for the NSF/CISE Division of Computer and Network Systems
December 12th, 2019 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani, Acting Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Gurdip Singh as the division director (DD) for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), effective March 2, 2020. Gurdip will be joining NSF/CISE from Syracuse University, where he is currently Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs. Prior to joining the Syracuse faculty in 2016, he served as a program director in CNS in 2014-2016, […]
Congratulations to the 2019 ACM Fellows
December 11th, 2019 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2019 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s most prestigious member grade, which “comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.” The 2019 list honors 58 members of ACM for their contributions to computing. Among the 2019 Fellows is Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Maria Gini (University of Minnesota), recognized for her “for contributions to robotics and multi-agent systems and a lifelong commitment to diversity in computing.” Maria joined the CCC this year and is a member of the Health and Computing Task Force. Other 2019 Fellows include past CCC Council members Elizabeth […]
Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan 2019
December 11th, 2019 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe Director of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program is pleased to share the link for the updated Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan (2019)! This plan provides guidance and defines priorities for Federal agencies that are involved in cybersecurity R&D, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence, quantum information science, trustworthy distributed digital infrastructure, privacy, secure hardware and software, and education and workforce development. Notably, the updated plan highlights the need to understand the human aspects of cybersecurity; provide effective and efficient risk management; develop effective and efficient methods for deterring and countering malicious cyber activities; develop integrated safety-security-privacy framework and methodologies; and improve […]
