Vint Cerf, known as one of the “fathers of the internet” and a recipient of the 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award, was a participating laureate at this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). Cerf currently acts as a vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. At HLF, I had an opportunity to sit down with Vint and interview him for the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) official podcast, “Catalyzing Computing,” which features interviews with researchers and policymakers about their background and experiences in the computing community. Prior to our interview he also participated in a press conference where he discussed some of the projects he is currently involved with, as well as other […]
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.
CRA’s Career Mentoring Workshop Registration is Now Open!
October 14th, 2019 / in Announcements, CRA, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a message to the community from the Computing Research Association (CRA) Executive Director Andrew Bernat. Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce that CRA’s Career Mentoring Workshop will take place February 27-28, 2020, in Washington, DC. The application link is here. The deadline to apply (for guaranteed attendance for CRA member institution participants) is October 31st. Appropriate participants from CRA-member institutions are automatically accepted (until we run out of physical space); we will accept participants from non-CRA member institutions if there is space (at a higher registration fee).If you have attended or know someone who has, then you know that this workshop gets raves as a kickstart […]
Upcoming NSF CISE Deadlines
October 9th, 2019 / in NSF / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out! CCF Core Solicitation The CCF Core Solicitation (NSF 19-589) deadlines are approaching: Smalls October 31, 2019 – November 14, 2019 Formal Methods in the Field The FMitF Solicitation (NSF 19-613) has just been posted. This is a summary of the changes. Embedded Systems has replaced Hybrid/Dynamical Systems as a field area. The deadline for proposal submission is Jan 22nd, 2019. New SaTC Solicitation Released The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program (NSF 19-603) will continue the no deadlines pilot for Small and Medium proposal in fiscal year 2020. SaTC will accept Small- and Medium-sized proposals under NSF 19-603 starting Oct 1st, 2019 till […]
New NSF Solicitation for National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes!
October 8th, 2019 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Transportation (DoT), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) just announced a new solicitation, titled National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes: Accelerating Research, Transforming Society, and Growing the American Workforce, with the goal to “significantly advance research in AI and accelerate the development of transformational, AI-powered innovation by allowing researchers to focus on larger-scale, longer-term research.” The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program anticipates approximately $120 million in grants next year to fund eight planning grants and up to six research institutes in order to advance AI […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 16 – Interview with Melanie Mitchell Part 2
October 7th, 2019 / in AI, podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part 2 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Melanie Mitchell, a Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, and External Professor and Member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute. In this episode, Dr. Mitchell discusses genetic algorithms, complexity science, and the art of writing a book. You can stream the episode in the embedded player below or find it on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | iHeartRadio | Youtube. If you are interested in appearing in an episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast or want to contribute a guest post to the CCC blog, please complete this survey through Google […]
AI Research: Times They Are A-Changin’ (or They Should Be)
October 2nd, 2019 / in AI, Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following blog was written by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice-Chair Liz Bradley from University of Colorado Boulder and CCC Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Times in Artificial Intelligence are or should be changing. See Bob Dylan’s 1964 lyrics below. Last week the New York Times published an article titled “A.I. Researchers See Danger of Haves and Have-Nots.” Modern AI research, which demands enormous computational resources, large data sets, and significant human expertise, is becoming increasingly difficult for anyone outside the large tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. This includes university labs—which, as the article points out, have traditionally been a wellspring of […]
