The next WATCH talk, called Welcome to the Panopticon(s) is Thursday, June 16th, 2016 from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter will be Nicholas Weaver. He received a B.A. in Astrophysics and Computer Science in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley. Although his dissertation was on novel FPGA architectures, he also focused on computer security, including postulating the possibility of very fast computer worms in 2001. He joined the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in 2003. His primary research focus is on network security, notably worms, botnets, surveillance, and other internet-scale attacks, and network measurement. Other areas have included both hardware acceleration and software […]
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 Watch Talk- Welcome to the Panopticon(s)
June 13th, 2016 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightCongressional Briefing Marks the Fifth Anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative
June 10th, 2016 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons, Research News, robotics / by Helen WrightIn celebration of the fifth anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), the Congressional Robotics Caucus Advisory Committee including IEEE-USA, Computing Research Association, Carnegie Mellon University, and Georgia Tech with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) held a Congressional Briefing with demonstrations and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released it’s report called Next Generation Robotics. The NRI was a direct result of a CCC roadmapping effort led by Henrik Christensen of Georgia Tech. It is based on a definitive report, A Roadmap for US Robotics — From Internet to Robotics, developed by more than 100 robotics experts from industry and academia who in 2008 attended four CCC workshops, one in each four topic areas of robotics: manufacturing and logistics, healthcare and medical robotics, service robotics, and emerging technologies. The goal of the NRI is to “accelerate […]
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
June 8th, 2016 / in Announcements, CCC, Research News / by Helen WrightYesterday’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) co-sponsored public workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good was tremendously successful! We had around 300 people in the room and over 3,500 viewers on the livestream. The two keynote talk were from Lynn Overmann, Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Eric Horvitz, former CCC Council Member and Technical Fellow & Managing Director at Microsoft Research. All slides can be found here, twitter conversation here, and the videos will be coming soon! Check out a few pictures below and the rest here! […]
Call for Papers and Participation at Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016)
June 8th, 2016 / in Announcements, Research News / by Helen WrightWe would like to bring your attention to a special session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles (ICD & ACV 2016), as part of the 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016). CTS 2016 will be October 31 – November 04, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The submission deadline for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters is June 27th, 2016. Scope and Objectives The special session will present techniques, methodologies, algorithms, system integrations, and architectures issues related to Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous Connected Vehicles. The ICD&ACV Special Session topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Networking and Mobile Internet for Autonomous Connected Vehicles: In-Vehicle […]
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Livestream
June 6th, 2016 / in Announcements, CCC, Research News / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) co-sponsored public workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good is tomorrow, June 7th, 2016 in Washington, DC. Please join us by watching the livestream starting at 8:30 AM EDT. You can also join the conversation via twitter, using @compcomcon and hashtags #AI4SocialGood and #FutureofAI. The agenda and full list of speakers, including their bios and talk titles, are on the website. This is one of four workshops that OSTP is co-sponsoring which are being held around the country to spur public dialogue on artificial intelligence and machine learning and to identify challenges and opportunities related to AI. […]
