The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 14th annual iConference, March 31- April 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. This special track for 2019 sought ideas and visions that stimulate the iSchool research community to pursue new directions. It was organized by Kevin Crowston from Syracuse University and John Leslie King from the University of Michigan. 1) Disrupting the Coming Robot Stampedes: Designing Resilient Information Ecologies Philip Gregory Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and ASRC Federal; Aaron Dant, ASRC Federal; Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2) Troubled Worlds: Bringing Bodies and the Environment into Computing Research, Practice, and Pedagogy Megan Finn, University of […]
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.
CCC Announces New Council Members
April 23rd, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed seven new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Sujata Banerjee, VMware Elisa Bertino, Purdue University Tom Conte, Georgia Tech Maria Gini, University of Minnesota Chad Jenkins, University of Michigan Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University Katie Siek, Indiana University Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms. The CCC Council is comprised of 20 members who have expertise in diverse areas of computing. They are instrumental in leading CCC’s visioning programs, which help catalyze and enable ideas for future computing research. Members serve staggered three-year terms that rotate every July. The CCC and CRA thank […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast – Content Generation for Workforce Training
April 22nd, 2019 / in AI, Announcements, Healthcare, NSF, podcast, research horizons, resources, workshop reports / by Khari DouglasThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently held a visioning workshop in Atlanta, GA to discuss and articulate research visions for authoring rich graphical content for new workforce training. The workshop’s goal was to articulate research challenges and needs and to summarize the current state of the practice in this area. This workshop is in response to growing needs in the field and new research programs such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Advancing Cognitive and Physical Capabilities (FW-HTF). In this episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast, Khari Douglas sits down with workshop organizers Holly Rushmeier (Yale) and Beth Mynatt (Georgia Tech) to discuss […]
Great Innovative Idea- Recommender Systems: A Healthy Obsession
April 18th, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC, Great Innovative Idea / by Helen WrightThe following Great Innovative Idea is from Barry Smyth, the Digital Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin and the Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Dr. Smyth was one of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blue Sky Track Conference Winners at AAAI-19 for his paper Recommender Systems: A Healthy Obsession. The Idea The idea of using AI and machine learning to help people to train more effectively for, and race in, marathons, and other endurance events. Impact I believe that it has the potential to change how people exercise, by helping them to train more efficiently and more safely. Other Research I work in the area […]
Envisioning the Future of Cloud Computing Research
April 17th, 2019 / in big science, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Khari DouglasThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Industry Collaboration working group recently released the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research: Interim Report. This report outlines a number of emerging trends within computing research, most importantly the rising level of interaction between professors and industry. These trends have been shaped by access to industry resources such as cloud computing, AI, and big data. As those resources become more valuable, computing researchers in academia are leaving for or entering into joint appointments with industry in order to gain access to those key assets. From the Interim report: Modern industrial deep learning models, like the BERT language model recently published by Google[1], have hundreds of […]
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: Early Measurements of Intel’s 3DXPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs
April 16th, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC, computer history, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following preamble is from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Over the last century, computer systems have been implemented with many technologies that evolve and are occasionally replaced by successors, e.g., discrete transistors with integrated circuits and ferrite core memory with DRAM. Heretofore, these technology transitions have been within—not between—the categories of computing, communication, memory, and storage. Below Steve Swanson reports on a new Intel technology that combines the categories of volatile memory and non-volatile storage in his recent ACM SIGARCH Blog. While we may just use “3DXPoint” conventionally–as separate memory or storage—it has the potential to merge memory and storage for systems […]
