The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Dear CISE Community, The NSF Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Henry Kautz as the Division Director for our Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), effective June 11, 2018. Henry will be joining NSF/CISE from the University of Rochester, where he is a professor and the founding director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science. Previously, he was chair of the computer science department at the University of Rochester; professor […]
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/CISE Appoints Dr. Henry Kautz as Division Director for the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
May 3rd, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightIBM joins NSF’s BIGDATA program
May 2nd, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has announced that IBM has joined as one of the cloud resource providers for the Critical Techniques, Technologies, and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA) program solicitation in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. From the news update: IBM joins Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure in providing cloud credits/resources to qualifying NSF-funded projects, thereby supporting researchers in their big data research and education activities, especially those focusing on large-scale experimentation and scalability studies. Following the introduction and success of the cloud option last year, CISE issued a call to encourage participation by […]
Call for Applications – CCC Leadership in Embedded Security Workshop
May 1st, 2018 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasThe 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 […]
Blue 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 […]
