The 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 […]
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.
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April 18th, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC, Great Innovative Idea / by Helen WrightEnvisioning 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 […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 7 – Interview with Keith Marzullo Part 2
April 15th, 2019 / in Announcements, NSF, podcast / by Khari DouglasPart 2 of the Catalyzing Computing podcast with Keith Marzullo is out now! In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews CCC Council Member Dr. Keith Marzullo, who became the Dean of the College of Information Studies (also known as the iSchool) at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2016. Prior to that, he directed the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. In this episode, Dr. Marzullo discusses joining an iSchool as a computer scientist, the latest projects at the Maryland iSchool, and the future of cybersecurity. If you haven’t already, listen to part 1 of the podcast here. Stream the episode below or listen through iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play and subscribe to receive notifications […]
Code 8.7: How We Can Advance Collaborative Problem Solving
April 12th, 2019 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Khari DouglasThe following blog is reposted from the Delta 8.7 website. You can view the original post here. Contributions by: James Cockayne | Project Director – Delta 8.7 Nadya Bliss | Director, the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University Doreen Boyd | Head of the Rights Lab’s Data Programme, University of Nottingham Hannah Darnton | Programme Manager in Ethics, Technology and Human Rights, BSR Ann Drobnis | Director, the Computing Community Consortium James Goulding | Deputy Director of N-LAB, the University of Nottingham Daniel Lopresti | Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University Anjali Mazumder | Rutherford Fellow, the Alan Turing Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Zoe Trodd | Director of the Rights Lab, the University of Nottingham Code 8.7: How […]
National Science Foundation names Jennifer Dionne and Mark Braverman its 2019 Alan T. Waterman awardees
April 10th, 2019 / in Announcements, awards, NSF, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has named materials scientist Jennifer Dionne and computer scientist Mark Braverman the recipients of this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award. The Waterman Award annually recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by NSF. Researchers 40 years of age or younger, or up to 10 years post Ph.D., are eligible. This year, two outstanding researchers are recognized. Mark Braverman is a Professor of Computer Science from Princeton University. He studies complexity theory, algorithms and the limits of what’s possible computationally. Braverman’s research focuses on complexity, including looking at algorithms for optimization, which, when applied, might mean planning a route — how […]
