The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 29TH ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, July 9-12, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. The emphasis of this track was on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and new research opportunities. This track was designed to overcome the constraints of the traditional review process and served as an incubator for innovative approaches, risky and provocative ideas, and to propose challenges and opportunities in the near future. First place: Charlie Hargood, Fred Charles and David Millard- “Intelligent Generative Locative Hyperstructure” Second place: Mark Bernstein and Clare Hooper- “A Villain’s Guide to Social Media and Web Science” Third place: Mark Bernstein- “As We […]
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.
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ACM Hypertext 2018
July 31st, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, Research News / by Helen WrightCall for Papers – Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing
July 26th, 2018 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasDrs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers in order to participate in their upcoming Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing co-located with the 9th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC 2018) taking place October 21-24 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. IGSC 2018 “provides a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference consists of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and special sessions on these topics.” The submission deadline is August 15th and the full call can be found below: CALL FOR […]
NSF DCL: Removal of Deadlines for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program
July 19th, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightThe following is a cross-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on the removal of deadlines for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program. Dear Colleague: The Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) wish to provide notice about an important upcoming change to submission windows for all proposals to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. In order to allow principal investigators (PIs) more flexibility and to better facilitate interdisciplinary research across all disciplines, SaTC is removing deadlines for submission of solicited proposals across all its designations [CORE, Transition […]
Finding CCC’s Resources in YOUR Area of IT
July 16th, 2018 / in Announcements, resources / by Helen WrightThe 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 […]
ACM 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 […]
