The Cybersecurity Taskforce of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will host a leadership workshop to envision the future of embedded security research on August 13th in Baltimore, Maryland. Embedded systems such as pacemakers, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things often have real-time constraints and electromechanical components that lead to different vulnerabilities and solutions from traditional computing systems. Embedded security is the study of physical properties, computational properties, and human factors that protect embedded systems from attack. The workshop, co-chaired by Wayne Burleson (UMass Amherst), Kevin Fu (CCC Cybersecurity Taskforce Chair, University of Michigan), and Farinaz Koushanfar (UC San Diego), will be co-located with the 27th USENIX Security Symposium. It will begin with a reception on the evening of […]
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.
Call for Applications – CCC Leadership in Embedded Security Workshop
May 1st, 2018 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasBlue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ISWC 2018
April 30th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) on October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA is having a blue ideas paper track sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blue Sky ideas Conference track. The blue sky ideas paper track solicits visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and opportunities in the semantic web research that are outside of the current topics in the field and are not mature or specific enough to be accepted in the regular research track. The contributions should find the right arguments to convince that the proposed topic is promising and should relate the talk as much as possible to the existing literature from relevant fields, possibly also fields outside […]
CCC Announces New Council Members
April 26th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed four new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory David C. Parkes, Harvard University Ronitt Rubinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms. The CCC Council is comprised of 20 members who have expertise in diverse areas of computing. They are instrumental in leading CCC’s visioning programs, which help catalyze and enable ideas for future computing research. Members serve staggered three-year terms that rotate every July. The CCC and CRA thank those Council members whose terms end on June 30 for their […]
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt Receives Strong Ally Recognition at ACM CHI 2018!
April 25th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightComputing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech received the Strong Ally recognition yesterday at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018 in Montréal, Canada. From the ACM CHI website: Strong Ally – Recognizes individuals who have leveraged their professional expertise and institutional privilege to be a reliable ally and strategic partner advocating for the rights and full inclusion of people of marginalized identities. During her acceptance speech, Beth talked about three important things that she has learned. Foster impatience. Impatience that drives you to create opportunities for those around you to do the work our community wants and needs to do to create an inclusive future. Second, create […]
NSF WATCH TALK-The Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar International Trade in Our Medical Data
April 19th, 2018 / in CCC, NSF, Research News / by Helen WrightThe next WATCH talk, called The Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar International Trade in Our Medical Data, from Adam Tanner, Author of “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records,” is Tuesday, May 1st 2018, Noon-1PM EST. Adam Tanner is a leading expert on the business of personal data and privacy. He is the author of Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records (2017) and What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data – Lifeblood of Big Business – and the End of Privacy as We Know It. He is an associate at Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, where he has been a fellow, writer and associate since 2011. He […]
Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity Colloquia
April 18th, 2018 / in policy, research horizons, Research News / by Khari DouglasOn March 12th-14th, the National Academies of Science held an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia on Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity. The colloquia, organized by Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland), Maneesh Agrawala (Stanford), Alyssa Goodman (Harvard), Youngmoo Kim (Drexel), and Roger Malina (UT Dallas), examined the historical framework of cybernetic serendipity –the concept of unplanned creation derived from cybernetic processes. The term is derived from an exhibition of cybernetic art curated by Jasia Reichardt that toured touring the United States in the late 1960s. The colloquia attempted to answer: “How should we re-envision research policy and educational structures to maximize the impact of partnerships with design, art, and humanities? How can we productively engage […]
