Shwetak Patel, from the University of Washington, contributed to this post. Would you like to know how much energy your living room TV is using when it is running? What about when how much it uses while still plugged in and turned “off”? How about checking to see if your newborn baby has jaundice using your smartphone? Would that be helpful? All these practical applications are now possible using a smart sensor in the home and on your phone. The National Science Foundation Science Nation recently went to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Shwetak Patel’s lab to learn how to use smart sensors to create a breakdown 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.
NSF Science Nation Highlights CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel’s Ubicomp Lab
May 16th, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightArtificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
May 15th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCCC Council member Maja Mataric from the University of Southern California provided contributions to this post. If we train Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do our work for us it will still need to be periodically checked for errors and random noise. This detailed human oversight is not something we can skip. As AI has more and more power, it will also have more responsibility and the decisions it makes could be deadly if incorrect. We still have so much to learn about building machines that could potentially make life-altering decisions, and we cannot predict what kinds of serious engineering flaws will occur in the future. Michael I. Jordan from the […]
AMIA Webinar on Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction
May 14th, 2018 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasThe American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) will hold a webinar on sociotechnical interventions for health disparity reduction on Wednesday, May 16th at 1pm ET. During the webinar, Katie Siek (Indiana) and Tiffany Veinot (Michigan) will discuss the conclusions from the recent Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshop of the same name. On April 9-10, 2018, the CCC held a visioning workshop on Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction, co-located with the Society for Behavioral Medicine 39th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, in order to examine the opportunities and challenges facing sociotechnical interventions designed to improve the health of disadvantaged populations and reduce health disparities within them. Health disparities are the differences in […]
Bloomberg’s It’s Time for Data Ethics Conversations at Your Dinner Table
May 11th, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightRecently, Bloomberg posted an opinion piece about data ethics. How do we as a community handle data ethically? We know that the amount of data created each day will only continue to increase. What does responsible data sharing and use look like ‒ for a data scientist, a parent, or a business? How are our socioeconomic structures and methods of interaction shaping behavior? How might we ensure that our technologies and practices are fair and unbiased? These questions are only going to get harder to answer. One idea that is proposed in the article is to have a “Hippocratic Oath” for data scientists. “Just as medical professionals pledge to do no harm, individuals […]
NSF WATCH TALK- Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population
May 10th, 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 […]
Global City Teams Challenge Updates
May 8th, 2018 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCheck out the following Global City Teams Challenge Updates Global Tech Jam 2018 Bringing together forward-looking research institutions, federal agencies, leading private sector companies, and municipalities interested in preparing their infrastructure for the latest technologies to provide better, more equitable services. This three-day conference will feature Transportation/Mobility with participation from other policy areas including Energy/Water/Waste Management, Public Safety, Wireless, City Platform/Dashboard, Data Governance and Exchange, and Agriculture and Rural. When: June 20-22, 2018 Where: Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97232, USA More Information: See this website U.S. DOE’s $20M Funding Opportunity for Transportation Technology Integration The U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office has announced a new […]
