How can we feed the world’s population – projected to reach ten billion people by 2050 – in a sustainable way that preserves the health of individuals, communities, and the environment? How can computer science be utilized to improve food production, processing, and distribution? These were the main topics at the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) scientific session on Sustainably Feeding Ten Billion People that took place February 16th at the AAAS 2019 Annual Meeting. The panelists for this session were Diane Wang (SUNY Buffalo), Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research), and Abraham Stroock (Cornell), while Susan McCouch (Cornell) moderated the session. Diane Wang’s presentation on Coupling Nature and Nurture: Supercharging Predictions for […]
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@AAAS2019 – Sustainably Feeding Ten Billion People
March 19th, 2019 / in AAAS, Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCatalyzing Computing Podcast – Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery
March 18th, 2019 / in Announcements, podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now. In this episode Khari Douglas interviews CCC Council Members Dan Lopresti (Lehigh University), Nadya Bliss (Arizona State), and James Cockayne (Centre for Policy Research at UN University) following the Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery conference, which was co-sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, The Alan Turing Institute, Tech Against Trafficking, University of Nottingham Rights Lab, and Arizona State University Global Security Initiative. Code 8.7 brought together computer science researchers and technologists with policy researchers, law enforcement officials, and activists involved in the fight against human trafficking. Stream the episode below or listen through iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play and subscribe […]
New NSF Funding Opportunities for the Computer Science Research Community
March 18th, 2019 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightThe following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has published a number of reports related to the opportunities below, include most recently the Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role and the 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US Executive Summary. Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, We are pleased to share with you a number of recent funding opportunities that the NSF has issued in the last few months and are likely to be of significant interest to the CISE […]
Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery
March 13th, 2019 / in Announcements, big science, research horizons / by Khari DouglasOn February 19-20, 2019 the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) co-sponsored the Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery with the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, The Alan Turing Institute, Tech Against Trafficking, University of Nottingham Rights Lab, and Arizona State University Global Security Initiative. Code 8.7 brought together computer science researchers and technologists with policy researchers, law enforcement officials, and activists involved in the fight against human trafficking. Code 8.7 was named after Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals. With Target 8.7, 193 countries agreed to take immediate and effective measures to end forced labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking by 2030, and the worst forms of child […]
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at AAAI-19
March 12th, 2019 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, CCC, Research News / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 33rd Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), January 27- February 1, 2019, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The purpose of this conference was to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. The goal of this track was to present ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies. First place: Pat Langley (Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise) Explainable, Normative, and Justified Agency Second Place: Francesca Rossi (IBM Research & University of Padova) and Nicholas Mattei […]
