The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Algorithmic and Economic Perspectives on Fairness workshop report. It is the output of the CCC’s 1.5-day Economics and Fairness visioning workshop that took place in May 2019, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The workshop was organized by David C. Parkes (Harvard University, CCC Council) and Rakesh Vohra (University of Pennsylvania), with the support of the CCC’s Fairness and Accountability Task Force. It brought together computer science researchers with backgrounds in algorithmic decision-making, machine learning, and data science with policy makers, legal experts, economists, and business leaders to discuss methods to ensure economic fairness in a data-driven world. The report highlights the current trends and uses of algorithmic […]
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.
Economics and Fairness Workshop Report Released
September 11th, 2019 / in Uncategorized / by Khari DouglasBlue Sky Conference held at the Symposium on Spatial & Temporal Databases
September 10th, 2019 / in Announcements, Blue Sky / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 16th International Symposium on Spatial & Temporal Databases Symposia (SSTD ’19), August 19-21, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. SSTD’19 discussed new and exciting research in spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data management and related technologies with the goal to set future research directions. First prize – Understanding human mobility: A multi-modal and intelligent moving objects database Authors: Jianqiu Xu, Hua Lu and Ralf Hartmut Güting Second prize – Location-Based Social Simulation Authors: Hamdi Kavak, Joon-Seok Kim, Andrew Crooks, Dieter Pfoser, Carola Wenk and Andreas Züfle CCC provides travel awards to authors of the winning papers. We encourage you to apply […]
Last Week to Apply for the Blue Sky Ideas AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation Track
September 9th, 2019 / in AI, Announcements, awards, Blue Sky / by Khari DouglasThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Meeting (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). Summary: SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. There are two subtracks for submissions of talk proposals for the AAAI 2020 Senior Members Track (SMPT): the summary talk – broad talks on a well-developed body of research […]
Upcoming NSF Funding Opportunities
September 4th, 2019 / in Announcements, NSF, policy, research horizons, Research News, resources / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has a number of upcoming funding opportunities. Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) (PD 12-8084) Full Proposal Window: September 30, 2019 Advanced computational infrastructure and the ability to perform large-scale simulations and accumulate massive amounts of data have revolutionized scientific and engineering disciplines. The goal of the CDS&E program is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for major scientific and engineering breakthroughs through new computational and data analysis approaches. See more at this website here. Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs (NSF 19-589) Full Proposal Window: September 30, 2019 The NSF CISE Directorate supports research and education projects that develop new […]
NSF/Intel Partnership on Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (WLWiNS) Program Webinar
August 28th, 2019 / in Announcements, NSF, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) is holding a webinar on September 11, 2019 at 2:00 PM ET for the NSF/Intel Partnership on Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) solicitation NSF 19-591, submission requirements, and program updates. The NSF/Intel Partnership on Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) seeks to accelerate fundamental, broad-based research on wireless-specific machine learning (ML) techniques, towards a new wireless system and architecture design, which can dynamically access shared spectrum, efficiently operate with limited radio and network resources, and scale to address the diverse and stringent quality-of-service requirements of future wireless applications. In parallel, this program also targets research on reliable distributed ML by addressing the challenge […]
CCC Response to NITRD RFI “Information on Update to Strategic Computing Objectives”
August 22nd, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following post was contributed by CCC Director, Ann Schwartz Drobnis. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of Federal agencies and the NITRD National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Fast-Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Strategic Computing (SC), put out a Request for Information (RFI) from the public to update for the Strategic Computing R&D goals and approaches. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) responded to the RFI on behalf of the community. Some snippets from CCC’s response: Many—if not most—of the benefits that information technology has provided to society have in turn depended on tremendous progress in technology (Moore’s Law) and in hardware designs for compute, storage, and communication. Future information […]
