The final CCC panel of AAAS 2023, “Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence”, was held on Sunday, March 5th, the last day of the conference. This panel was composed of David Danks (University of California – San Diego), Bo Li (University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign), and Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute) and was moderated by Maria Gini (University of Minnesota). Dr. Bo Li began the panel by discussing the importance of conducting trustworthy machine learning (ML), and the ways in which we can ensure ML is safe, equitable, and inclusive. Machine learning is ubiquitous, Li said, and today is used in a significant number of everyday activities, such […]
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 Reports and Whitepapers Released in April
April 26th, 2023 / in AI, Announcements, CCC-led white papers, workshop reports / by Maddy HunterApril was a big month for the Computing Community Consortium, releasing two workshop reports and one white paper on pressing topics within the computing research community. Overviews of each, as well as individual links to corresponding blog posts are listed below. CCC Releases the Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research Workshop II Report Out In August of 2022, the second AI/OR workshop was held in Atlanta, GA. The second workshop in a three-part series, also supported by INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, was organized by John Dickerson (University of Maryland), Bistra Dilkina (University of Southern California), Yu Ding (Texas A&M), Swati Gupta (Georgia Institute of Technology), Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sven Koenig (University of Southern California), Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University), and Radhika Kulkarni (SAS […]
NSF FY2024 Request: President Biden Calls for Another Strong Budget for NSF
April 25th, 2023 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterOriginally posted by Brian Mosley on the Computing Research Policy Blog In our continuing series of posts on the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request, we turn to the National Science Foundation. As he has done the past two years, President Biden proposes a strong budget for NSF, doubling down on the Chips and Science Act and the historic budget increase the agency received in the FY23 Omnibus. Under the Administration’s FY24 plan, NSF would see a 14 percent increase compared to the FY23 Omnibus. NSF would go from $9.90 billion in FY23 to $11.3 billion in FY24, an increase of $1.40 billion. A large part of that increase would go into Research […]
Department of Commerce Releases a Request for Comment on AI Accountability Policy
April 24th, 2023 / in AI, Announcements, Privacy / by Maddy HunterThe Department of Commerce has released a request for comment on AI Accountability Policy. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is requesting comments on AI system accountability measures and policies. The comments will help the administration to draft and issue a report on AI accountability policy development focusing on AI assurance ecosystems. Comments are due June 10th, 2023. Summary: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hereby requests comments on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) system accountability measures and policies. This request focuses on self-regulatory, regulatory, and other measures and policies that are designed to provide reliable evidence to external stakeholders – that is, to provide assurance – – that AI systems […]
AAAS Panel Recaps: Improving Mental Health and Supporting Self-regulation with Technology
April 20th, 2023 / in AAAS, CCC / by Haley GriffinMental well-being is essential to a happy life, and especially with the stresses of the pandemic heightening the mental health crisis plaguing the US and the world, research on ways technology can improve mental health has never been more crucial. Technology can be detrimental to users’ mental health, but there are also abundant ways that it can be used to improve mental health. CCC organized a panel, “Improving Mental Health and Supporting Self-regulation with Technology,” that outlined the status of many creative technologies that support people’s mental well-being. The panelists were Dr. Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell University), Dr. Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research), and Dr. Shri Narayanan (University of Southern California). The […]
AAAS Panel Recaps: Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World
April 13th, 2023 / in AAAS, Announcements, CCC / by Catherine GillContinuing in our AAAS panel recaps, the CCC hosted a panel titled, “Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World”. The panelists were Brent Hecht (Microsoft), Richard Ladner (University of Washington), and Cristina Videira Lopes (University of California, Irvine), and the panel was moderated by Sujata Banerjee (VMware). During the hybrid 2023 AAAS conference, there were many issues with virtual capability, culminating in an announcement on the morning of the second day that the organizers made the decision to shift to an in-person only conference. This was a disappointing technological failure, but it highlighted the difficulties that arise from hybrid conferences, which these panelists discussed at length. Dr. […]
