The Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT). The Prize is named in honor of Kurt Gödel in recognition of his major contributions to mathematical logic and of his interest, discovered in a letter he wrote to John von Neumann shortly before von Neumann’s death, in what has become the famous “P versus NP” question. Gödel’s work has had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century. The award recognizes his major contributions […]
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 Council Member Cynthia Dwork is One of the Recipients of the 2017 Gödel Prize
March 23rd, 2017 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightNSF Announces Big Data Spokes Solicitation for 2018
March 22nd, 2017 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced a new program solicitation for the Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs: Establishing Spokes to Advance Big Data Applications (BD Spokes). The original award gave $10 million to 10 BD Spokes projects in order to facilitate research of key topics selected by the by the four Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs). This solicitation calls for an estimated 10 to 20 new BD Spoke proposals to be funded in 2018 in collaboration with the BD Hubs. Each project will be categorized as Small – funded at $100,000 to $500,000 for up to three years – or Medium – funded at over $500,00 up […]
Past CCC Chair Gregory D. Hager Inducted to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows
March 21st, 2017 / in Announcements, CCC, Research News / by Helen WrightThe American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) just inducted the 2017 College of Fellows at their 2017 Annual Event at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., yesterday. Gregory D. Hager, past Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair, professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, and director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, was one of the inductees. Members of the College of Fellows are considered among the top two percent of the country’s medical and biological engineers and include distinguished and accomplished research directors, professors, engineering and medical school chairs, and successful entrepreneurs and innovators. Dr. Hager was recognized for his development of computationally enhanced imaging […]
WHISPER: A New Persistent Memory Benchmark Suite
March 20th, 2017 / in research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While he is coauthor of the paper discussed, he blogs anyway, because a benchmark suite can be valuable for driving better designs and comparisons. Since the dawn of computing, memory has been volatile, byte-addressable, and directly accessed with user-level reads and writes, while storage has been durable, block-addressesable, and accessed via system calls. Persistent Memory (PM) can change this by allowing user-level reads and writes direct byte-addressable access to emerging non-volatile memory technologies. Nevertheless, many systems will continue to have volatile memory (DRAM) in parallel with PM for lower energy writes and perhaps faster access. Initial PM systems have been developed using […]
CCC @ AAAS 2017- The Technology of the Future
March 16th, 2017 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News, robotics / by Helen WrightContributions to this post were provided by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council members Maja Matarić and Shwetak Patel. Recently, we have been highlighting CCC’s role at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advance of Science (AAAS) and have posted blogs about Health in Your Pocket: Diagnosing and Treating Disease with Smartphones and What Happens When Everyday Objects Become Internet Devices: A Science Policy Agenda. The focus of this post is on the Technology of the Future flash talks that CCC Council members Maja Matarić and Shwetak Patel presented. In Matarić’s Socially Assistive Robotics: Creating Robots That (Provide) Care talk, she described work in the new field of socially assistive robotics, […]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Tries to Predict March Madness
March 16th, 2017 / in Uncategorized / by Khari DouglasNeed some last minute help with your bracket before March Madness tips off? Check out the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) Bracketodds, which uses probability theory and statistics to predict and analyze the success of teams in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament based on seeding. The website was created in 2011 as an educational project with undergraduate computer science students at UIUC and is intended to be used as “a tool to evaluate and compare various seed combinations in later rounds of your bracket and to assess your bracket odds” as the model does not have the accuracy to give probabilities for games before the Sweet Sixteen. If you’re […]
