The following Great Innovative Idea is from Orit Peleg an Assistant Professor of Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder. Peleg was one of the participants at the recent Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Robotic Materials workshop. The Idea Animals use a combination of egocentric navigation driven by the internal integration of environmental cues, interspersed with geocentric course correction and reorientation. These processes are accompanied by uncertainty in sensory acquisition of information, planning, and execution. Together with L. Mahadevan (Harvard University) and M. Dacke (Lund University), we consider the question of optimal reorientation rates for the navigation of an agent moving along a preferred direction in the presence of multiple sources of noise. This is inspired […]
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.
Great Innovative Idea: Identifying optimal navigation schemes by merging tools from computer science, physics, and biology
June 7th, 2018 / in CCC, Great Innovative Idea / by Helen WrightUSDA/NIFA Request for Applications on Food and Agriculture Cyber-infrastructure and Tools
June 5th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightFormer CCC Council member and current CRA Board member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota provided contributions to this post. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics and Tools (FACT) initiative has issued a call for proposals that 1) focus on fundamental or core big data analytics and tool development, and/or 2) apply big data concepts to specific science domains or across domains and sectors for any of the Plant health and production and plant products program area priorities. A snippet from the USDA/NIFA Request for Applications (RFA): This program area priority focuses […]
NSF WATCH TALK- Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population
June 4th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe next WATCH talk, called Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population, from John M. Abowd, Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology at the U.S. Census Bureau, is Wednesday, June 6th 2018, Noon-1PM EST. Dr. Abowd was the lead author of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) white paper on Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis for the Federal Statistical Agencies in January 2017. John M. Abowd is Associate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist at the United States Census Bureau and the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, Professor of Statistics and Information Science at Cornell University. At the Census Bureau, he leads a directorate of research centers, each devoted […]
ACM Learning Webinar- Socially Assistive Robotics
June 1st, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightComputing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Maja Matarić, Chaired Professor and Vice Dean for Research at the University of Southern California will be giving the next free ACM Learning Webinar on “Socially Assistive Robotics” on Monday (June 4th) at 2PM PDT/5 PM ET. Register now Plamen Petrov, Director of Cognitive Technology, KPMG LLP; SIGAI Industry Liaison Officer and Rose Paradis, Machine Learning Research Scientist at Leidos Data Analytics Products and Services; SIGAI Secretary/Treasurer, will moderate the questions and answers session. Robotics is booming all around us. A field that was originally driven by the desire to automate physical work is now raising concerns about the future of work. Less discussed but no more important are the implications […]
A Jitterbug-like Tablet for Older Adults?
May 31st, 2018 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe computers, smartphones, and tablets that we use every day are becoming more advanced. Older adults who have cognitive or physical disabilities might have trouble using such devices. Technology should not just be for the young. We need to start thinking about how we can better adapt devices to fit the needs of our aging population. Recently, the Wired posted an article called Bigger, Brighter, Simpler: A Tablet For The Mature User that highlights some features of tablets which allows older adults to use them more successfully. These features include: Clear Notifications A bright light illuminates the tab of the person just contacted, so users can keep track of in-progress conversations. Real Buttons Tablets […]
Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
May 29th, 2018 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCheck out the following updates from the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Attend the Tech Jam Update (June 20-22, Portland, Oregon, USA) Register here More than 20 action clusters working with municipal governments will present at the Tech Jam on June 20. Speakers include: Kris Bailey, COO, Electric Cab of North America Arik Bronshtein, CEO, UrbanLeap Sudipta Bhattacharyya, IoT Solution Lead, Nokia Benjamin Ng H. A., Assistant Vice President (Head of USA), Concorde USA & Singapore Hiroaki Nishi, Chairperson of the Consortium for Town Management of Misono and Professor, Keio University Limor Schafman, Director, Smart Buildings, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) The list of on-stage presentations is available here. Data SuperCluster (DSC) […]
