CCC Chair Elizabeth Mynatt from Georgia Tech and former CCC Council member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, provided contributions to this post. How can we really be sure that autonomous vehicles are safe? Is a road test the way to do it, or do we need to test every software patch in a vehicle before it gets on the highway? Why did Walmart file a patent for robotic bee pollinators? One of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sessions at the recent 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Austin, TX was on Transforming Cities, Transportation, and Agriculture with Intelligent Infrastructure and these […]
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.
CCC@AAAS 2018- Transforming Cities, Transportation, and Agriculture with Intelligent Infrastructure
March 22nd, 2018 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCCC Council Member Kevin Fu Does Some Detective Work
March 21st, 2018 / in CCC, pipeline, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightBetween December 2016 and August 2017, at least 24 employees of the U.S Embassy in Cuba heard high-pitched sounds and suffered injuries thought to be related to the noise. Many speculated that the high-pitched sounds were some high-frequency sonic weapon. When Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member, Kevin Fu from the University of Michigan, looked at the spectral plot of the clip he saw some unusual ripples. Fu worked with his collaborator, Wenyuan Xu, a professor at Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou, China, and her Ph.D. student Chen Yan, and through a series of simulations, saw that an effect known as intermodulation distortion could have produced the sound. Intermodulation distortion occurs when […]
CCC@AAAS 2018- Rethinking Approaches to Disaster Management and Public Safety with Intelligent Infrastructure
March 20th, 2018 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightContributions to this post were provided by Executive Council Member Dan Lopresti, Michael Dunaway, Robin Murphy, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. Cell towers on wheels? Monitoring Twitter? These are just some ideas of how to monitor disasters and inform the public during an emergency situation. One of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sessions at the recent 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Austin, TX was on Rethinking Approaches to Disaster Management and Public Safety with Intelligent Infrastructure and these ideas were brought up during the discussion. The session was moderated by CCC Executive Council Member Dan Lopresti, from Lehigh University, with participating speakers Michael Dunaway (University […]
NSF CAREER Program Webinar
March 14th, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightThe NSF CAREER Coordinating Committee is hosting a webinar to answer participants’ questions about development and submission of proposals to the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) on May 15th, 2018 from 1:00-3:00PM ET. The webinar will give participants the opportunity to interact with members of the NSF-wide CAREER Coordinating Committee in a question-and-answer format. In preparation for the webinar, participants are strongly encouraged to consult material available on-line concerning the CAREER program. In particular, the CAREER program web page has a wealth of current information about the program, including: the CAREER program solicitation NSF 17-537; frequently asked questions about the CAREER program; and slides from a CAREER program overview. Additionally, there is a video […]
AI100 Call for Proposals
March 12th, 2018 / in Research News / by Helen WrightThe Stanford One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, AI100, launched in Fall 2014, is an endowed, long-range investigation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It examines AI systems and the technological, ethical, and policy opportunities and dilemmas that they present to individuals, communities, and society. The AI100 Standing Committee (AI100SC) oversees the Study’s core activity: Designing and carrying out, on a five-year cycle, studies that assess the current state and future potential of AI-enabled computing systems. Resulting Study Panel Reports aim to inform and prompt action from diverse stakeholders as they navigate the promise and challenges that AI advancements raise for how people work, live, and play. The AI100SC, in preparation […]
Great Innovative Idea- Geotagging IP Packets for Location-Aware Software
March 8th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, Great Innovative Idea, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following Great Innovative Idea is from Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, and Divesh Srivastava, from AT&T Labs-Research. They were one of the Blue Sky Award winners at the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 conference for their paper, Geotagging IP Packets for Location-Aware Software-Defined Networking in the Presence of Virtual Network Functions. The Idea When routing IP packets on the Internet, the geographic location of routers and switches can be taken into account and utilized, to improve security and support applications such as copyright protection, location-based services, etc. Our main idea is to add to IP packets geotags with spatio-temporal information about the traveled route, e.g., the geographic location of the source. We suggest to use packet encapsulation to add geotags without […]
