The Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) mission is broad. Our mission is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. CCC conducts activities that strengthen the research community, articulate compelling research visions, and align those visions with pressing national and global challenges. As a consequence, material on the CCC web site spans many areas of IT such as Intelligent Infrastructure, Privacy and Fairness, Artificial Intelligence, and Cybersecurity. Most IT professionals, however, only focus on one of these areas in order to make deep connections. Until recently, users had to know exactly what to search for in order to find material in their focus area. For this […]
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.
Finding CCC’s Resources in YOUR Area of IT
July 16th, 2018 / in Announcements, resources / by Helen WrightACM SIGARCH Blog – Speculating about speculation: on the (lack of) security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations
July 9th, 2018 / in research horizons / by Khari DouglasThe following is a blog post from ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today that considers some potential flaws in emerging software mitigations of Spectre-V1 attacks. Earlier this year, Mark Hill, Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) wrote a CCC blog post on the effects of Meltdown/Spectre, which is referenced in this piece. Mark will also be part of a joint keynote at Hot Chips titled, “ Spectre/Meltdown and What It Means for Future Chip Design.” Speculating about speculation: on the (lack of) security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations By Mark Silberstein, Oleksii Oleksenko, Christof Fetzer on Jul 2, 2018 Spectre and Meltdown opened the Pandora box of a new class of speculative execution attacks that defeat standard memory protection mechanisms. These attacks […]
MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35 2018
July 5th, 2018 / in Announcements, awards / by Khari DouglasMIT Technology Review publishes an annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35, and they recently released their list of innovators for 2018. The list features over 20 innovators who are solving problems related to or using computer science. Some highlights from the list include: Menno Veldhorst, Delft University – Veldhorst demonstrated a way to print quantum circuits on silicon, a task long considered impossible. This system of printing is now being used by Intel to create their new “spin qubit” chip and has greatly increased their capacity to produce quantum chips. Elizabeth Nyeko, Modularity Grid – The CEO of Modularity Grid, Nyeko has designed an intelligent, cloud-based system to […]
NIST’s Unlinkable Data Challenge Features A $50K Grand Prize
July 3rd, 2018 / in Announcements, awards / by Khari DouglasThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the Unlinkable Data Challenge with a $50k grand prize! The challenge aims to advance approaches to differential privacy, a term introduced by Dwork, McSherry, Nissim, and Smith in 2006, which refers to the privacy loss that occurs when an individual’s information is used in the manufacture of a large dataset. NIST is calling for concept papers that propose “a mechanism to enable the protection of personally identifiable information while maintaining a dataset’s utility for analysis.” How to Participate: The Unlinkable Data Challenge is a multi-stage Challenge. This first stage of the Challenge is intended to source detailed concepts for new […]
The CCC Welcomes New Leadership and Council Members!
July 2nd, 2018 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasSunday, July 1st, was the start of a new CCC term! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now the Chair of the CCC and Liz Bradley from the University of Colorado-Boulder is the new Vice Chair. Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech is the Past Chair. The CCC Chair and Vice Chair both serve two-year terms – at the culmination of the two years, the Vice Chair typically becomes the new Chair. The CCC also welcomes four new council members who began their three-year terms on Sunday: Ian Foster, University of Chicago David C. Parkes, Harvard University Ronitt Rubinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah The CCC […]
National Science Foundation (NSF) and US-Israeli Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities
June 27th, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightContributions to the post were provided by Yair Rotstein, head of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation, which provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between US and Israeli research communities and sets out the principles by which jointly supported activities might be developed. The MOU provides for an international collaboration arrangement whereby US researchers may receive funding from the NSF and Israeli researchers may receive funding from the BSF. This is part of a larger program; see the NSF Dear Colleague Letter from last summer here. The goal of […]
