The 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 […]
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.
NIST’s Unlinkable Data Challenge Features A $50K Grand Prize
July 3rd, 2018 / in Announcements, awards / by Khari DouglasThe 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 […]
Learn more about the USDA/NIFA Food and Agriculture Cyber-infrastructure and Tools (FACT) Initiative!
June 25th, 2018 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightRecently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) posted about the USDA/NIFA Food and Agriculture Cyber-infrastructure and Tools (FACT) initiative. Check out this webinar about FACT on Wednesday, June 27th at 2PM ET. FACT seeks to catalyze activities that harness big data for synthesizing new knowledge, making predictive decisions, and fostering data-supported innovation in agriculture. Projects funded through FACT will work to examine the value of data for small and large farmers, agricultural and food industries, and gain an understanding of how data can impact the agricultural supply chain, reduce food waste and loss, improve consumer health, environmental and natural resource management, affect the structure of U.S. food and agriculture sectors, and increase U.S. competitiveness. The webinar will […]
ACM SIGARCH Blog- Verifying Quantum Software and Hardware
June 19th, 2018 / in research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a blog post from the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has also done work in the quantum computing (QC) space, including hosting a recent workshop called Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role. The workshop brought together an interdisciplinary crowd of colleagues from classical computer science disciplines as well as domain-experts from quantum computing. It addressed the huge gap between problems for which a quantum computer might be useful (such as chemistry problems, material science problems, etc) and what we can currently build, program, and run. The goal of the QC research community, as is briefly mentioned in the blog below, is to close the gap so […]
NIH Releases Strategic Plan for Data Science
June 18th, 2018 / in Announcements, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released the following letter to the community announcing its Strategic Plan for Data Science. Dear Colleagues, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its first-ever Strategic Plan for Data Science to capitalize on the opportunities presented by advances in data science. The plan describes NIH’s overarching goals, strategic objectives, and implementation tactics for promoting the modernization of the NIH-funded biomedical data science ecosystem. We are grateful for the input from the community and the public received from the Request for Information, which was incorporated into the final plan. Over the course of the next year, NIH will begin implementing its strategy, with some elements of the […]
