The following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Times they are a changing. In the 20th century many researchers and companies innovated within a layer (or two) of the computing software-hardware stack. Today there is pressure and opportunity to innovate across layers, as argued in a 2012 CCC white paper on 21st Century Computer Architecture. A fantastic example of this cross-layer innovation was recently presented in the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) by Putman et al. “A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services” and reported in WIRED by Robert McMillan “Microsoft Supercharges Bing […]
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.
Microsoft Researchers Use Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGAs) to Accelerate Production Web Search
June 26th, 2014 / in CCC, Research News / by Ann DrobnisNSF Releases Toolkit to Highlight Investments
June 25th, 2014 / in NSF, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently released a toolkit that describes NSF’s investment in fundamental research. It has infographics, fact sheets, brochures, and a video on NSF’s merit review process. One of the infographics highlights a “Day in the Life”-how your daily activities intersect with NSF supported efforts. The following is from the NSF Press Release. “NSF’s toolkit offers a range of information about the vital work of the Foundation in a compelling way using modern communications methods,” said NSF’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs Director Judith Gan. “We encourage the NSF community and the general public to explore the materials we’re releasing today to learn more about […]
Recent ISAT/DARPA Workshop Targeted Approximate Computing
June 23rd, 2014 / in big science, CCC, policy, Research News / by Ann DrobnisThe following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark Hill and workshop organizers Luis Ceze, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, and James Larus, Full Professor and Head of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Luis Ceze and Jim Larus organized a DARPA ISAT workshop on Approximate Computing in February, 2014. The goal was to discuss how to obtain 10-100x performance and similar improvements in MIPS/watt out of future hardware by carefully trading off accuracy of a com putation for these other goals. The focus was not the underlying […]
Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy Solicitation includes Ideas Lab
June 19th, 2014 / in NSF, pipeline, policy / by Ann DrobnisAs reported in this blog earlier in the month, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Intel Labs recently announced a new partnership to support novel, transformative, multidisciplinary approaches that address the problem of securing current and emerging cyber-physical systems, the infrastructures they form, and those integrated with them. A key part of this solicitation is the use of an Ideas Lab to identify and develop novel ideas. A unique feature of an Ideas Lab is the multidisciplinary nature of the selected participants. The Computing Research Association (CRA), CCC’s parent organization, is working with Knowinnovation to run the Ideas Lab. The two organizations previously worked together on a successful Ideas […]
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning)
June 17th, 2014 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) recently posted a new solicitation for the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) program. The following is from the Cyberlearning website. The purpose of the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program is to integrate opportunities offered by emerging technologies with advances in what is known about how people learn to advance three interconnected thrusts: Innovation: inventing and improving next-generation genres (types) of learning technologies, identifying new means of using technology for fostering and assessing learning, and proposing new ways of integrating learning technologies with each other and into learning environments to foster and assess learning; Advancing understanding of how people learn […]
CCC Sponsors Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at Foundations of Software Engineering 2014
June 13th, 2014 / in CCC / by Ann DrobnisThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring another track in its Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track series at the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), November 16-22, 2014 in Hong Kong. This track emphasizes visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities in software engineering research that are outside of current mainstream topics of the field. The submissions to this track will be judged on the extent to which they expand the possibilities and horizons of the field or challenge existing assumptions prevalent in the field. The CCC will sponsor three Best Paper Awards in this special track, which will be selected out of the accepted papers based on evaluations by the program committee. Papers […]
