The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring another track in its Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track series at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence on January 25-29, 2015 in Austin, Texas.The “Senior Member Presentation Track” provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a “big picture” view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. There are two subtracks for submissions of talk proposals for the Senior Member Presentation Track: Summary talks: broad talks on a well-developed body of research or an important […]

The United States-Israel Educational Foundation, the Fulbright commission for Israel, offers fellowships to American post-doctoral researchers in support of work to be carried out at Israeli universities during the course of the 2015-2017 academic years. While the fellowships are offered to all disciplines, CCC would like to highlight the story of computer scientist David P. Dobkin. In the following post, David reflects on his experience. At the time of my Fulbright in 2000 I was Phillip Y. Goldman ’86 Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University.  My research area has evolved over time from theoretical computer science to computational geometry and on to computer graphics.  While […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog by Keith Marzullo, division director for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS). 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 goal of this activity is to foster a long-term research community committed to advancing research and education at the confluence of cybersecurity, privacy, and cyber-physical systems, and to transitioning its findings into engineering practice. The partnership […]

  The Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), founded as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, has announced a one-day workshop designed for researchers who aspire to participate in NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. The goal of this workshop is to help aspiring SaTC PIs understand what NSF (and NSF review panels) are looking for in reviewing SaTC proposals, with the goal of increasing the quality of submitted proposals and, in turn, the percentage of proposals funded.  The workshop will be held in San Diego, California at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel on August 17, 2014.  The agenda for the workshop will include: Brief talks by NSF […]

  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the first group of teams from the Cyber Grand Challenge. The DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge is a tournament designed to increase the development of automated security systems able to defend against cyber attacks as fast as they are launched. It is aimed at the inadequacy of current network security systems in which attackers can take advantage of weaknesses to steal information. This is becoming an even greater concern as more and more devices, including vehicles and homes, get networked in what has become known as “the Internet of things.” From DARPA’s announcement yesterday: “Today’s security methods involve experts working with computerized systems to identify attacks, craft corrective […]