In 2023, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), an affiliated professional society member of CRA, commissioned a task force to craft a strategic vision for arising challenges in the future of computational science. Earlier this month, the task force released its report, titled The Future of Computational Science. CCC is excited to highlight the importance and timeliness of this report in which many themes are confirmed by our visioning activities and reports. As cited in the report, the United States was the unquestioned leader in advanced computing and computational science. The task force states that in recent years that leadership has been challenged by strategic rivals. The Future […]
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.
New SIAM Report Explores the Challenges Facing the Future of Computational Science
March 29th, 2024 / in Announcements / by Petruce Jean-CharlesCCC @ AAAS 2024: Large Language Models: Helpful Assistants, Romantic Partners, or Con Artists? Part Two
March 27th, 2024 / in AAAS / by Haley GriffinCCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. Today, we will summarize the highlights of the Q&A portion of the session, “Large Language Models: Helpful Assistants, Romantic Partners or Con Artists?” This panel, moderated by Dr. Maria Gini, CCC Council Member and Computer Science & Engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, featured Dr. Ece Kamar, Managing Director of AI Frontiers at Microsoft Research, Dr. Hal Daumé III, Computer Science professor at University of Maryland, and Dr. Jonathan May, Computer Science professor at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Below […]
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Large Language Models: Helpful Assistants, Romantic Partners, or Con Artists? Part One
March 26th, 2024 / in AAAS / by Haley GriffinCCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. Today, we will summarize the highlights of the panelists presentations of the session, “Large Language Models: Helpful Assistants, Romantic Partners or Con Artists?” This panel, moderated by Dr. Maria Gini, CCC Council Member and Computer Science & Engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, featured Dr. Ece Kamar, Managing Director of AI Frontiers at Microsoft Research, Dr. Hal Daumé III, Computer Science professor at University of Maryland, and Dr. Jonathan May, Computer Science professor at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Large […]
Virtual Registration Open for the NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability
March 25th, 2024 / in Announcements, climate / by Catherine GillThe NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability has just released a virtual registration link to attend the workshop remotely on April 16-17, 2024. This workshop, which the CCC’s own Chandra Krintz is on the steering committee for, seeks to identify open challenges in how to harness computing to tackle sustainability problems, and in ensuring that computing accounts for sustainability in its own development and operation. Due to space limitations, the workshop will follow a hybrid format with approximately 100 in-person attendees at the National Science Foundation’s headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and remote participation feasible through a zoom webinar. Please use this link to register to attend remotely. The deadline […]
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Four
March 21st, 2024 / in AAAS / by Catherine GillCCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls.” This panel, moderated by Dr. Matthew Turk, president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), featured Dr. Rebecca Willett, professor of statistics and computer science at the University of Chicago, Dr. Markus Buehler, professor of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Duncan Watson-Parris, assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. In Part Four, we summarize the Q&A portion of the panel. A Q&A session followed the panelist’s presentations, […]
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Three
March 20th, 2024 / in AAAS / by Catherine GillCCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls.” In Part Three, we summarize the presentation by Dr. Duncan Watson-Parris, assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. Following Dr. Markus Buehler’s presentation on generative AI in mechanobiology, Dr. Watson-Parris turned the audience’s attention to generative AI applications in the climate sciences. He began by outlining the difference between climate and weather. Weather refers to […]
