We are excited and proud to pass on the news that former CCC Chair and long time Council member Gregory D. Hager was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve as the Assistant Director (AD) of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) starting June 3, 2024. Dr. Hager had been a long standing member of CCC: he was a CCC Council Member from 2010-2017, CCC Vice Chair from 2013-2014, and CCC Chair from 2014-2016. His leadership in CCC had a significant impact on the broader computing research community. Most recently, in 2022 CCC featured his research on the medical applications for AI and robotics […]
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.
Former CCC Council Chair Gregory D. Hager Announced as Next NSF CISE AD
March 15th, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC, NSF, Research News / by Haley GriffinCCC Responds to RFI on NIH’s Strategic Plan for Data Science 2023-2028
March 14th, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC, health / by Haley GriffinToday, CCC submitted a response to a Request for Information released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on their Strategic Plan for Data Science 2023-2028. The response was written by the following computing experts: Tony Capra (University of California-San Francisco), David Danks (University of California San Diego, CCC Council Member), Haley Griffin (CCC), Carl Kingsford (Carnegie Mellon University), Rittika Shamsuddin (Oklahoma State), Katie A. Siek (Indiana University, CCC Council Member), Mona Singh (Princeton University, CCC Council Member), Donna Slonim (Tufts University), and Tammy Toscos (Parkview Health, CRA-I Council Member). The authors applauded NIH for an impressive list of aspirations in the Strategic Plan, but raised concerns about the training, […]
Visioning Workshop Report Released: Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society
March 12th, 2024 / in CCC, workshop reports / by Haley GriffinThe Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society visioning workshop was held in the Spring of 2023, bringing together a diverse group of 53 civil society representatives, activists, non-profit leaders, and computing researchers together. The workshop was sponsored by CCC and the MacArthur Foundation. The workshop organizers, Timnit Gebru (Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas at Austin), and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University), along with support from Haley Griffin (CCC), Nasim Sonboli (Brown University), and Leah Namisa Rosenbloom (Brown University), have written a workshop report that synthesizes the amazing ideas discussed throughout the visioning workshop. This report is a result of the ideas, experiences, recommendations, […]
Research Visioning for Positive Impact of Automated Systems
March 4th, 2024 / in CCC / by Haley GriffinAs automated systems become increasingly integrated into society, so do the number of people they impact. This means creators of these systems need to exercise extreme caution when designing, creating, and implementing systems to ensure that it will enact positive change in the community. Last spring, CCC and the MacArthur Foundation brought together activists, non-profit leaders, civil society representatives, and researchers, to discuss these community impacts at the Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology and Society visioning workshop. CCC has an extensive history of engaging in many of the research visioning topics topics that were brought up during the workshop like Privacy by Design (4 workshops in 2015/16), Artificial […]
Visioning Workshop Report Released: Future of Pandemic Prevention and Response
February 29th, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC, Healthcare, workshop reports / by Haley GriffinCCC held a visioning workshop on the Future of Pandemic Response and Prevention in September 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was organized by the CCC Council’s Computational Challenges in Healthcare Task Force, and a Steering Committee of community members in the healthcare domain: David Danks, University of California-San Diego/CCC Council Member Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan/CCC Council Member Katie Siek, Indiana University/CCC Council Member Mona Singh, Princeton University/CCC Council Member Brian Dixon, Regenstrief Institute Madhav Marathe, University of Virginia Shwetak Patel, University of Washington Erica Shenoy, Harvard MGB Michael Sjoding, Michigan Medical The organizers assembled a wide range of experts for a 1.5-day event to see what ideas the […]
Reminder: Join a Roundtable to Discuss the Next Grand Challenges in Computing
February 28th, 2024 / in Announcements / by Catherine GillThe Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Grand Challenges task force is engaging in a new visioning activity to identify the next grand challenges that will shape the future of our field. We’re seeking visionary thinkers and researchers to join us in this exciting exploration. These virtual roundtable discussions will aim to consider the whole of the field of computing in this context and ask what the new fundamentally “computing research” issues might be that could produce a new set of “Grand Challenges” for our field. In the way in which challenges around Health, Climate, Energy, Sustainability, and Agriculture draw those from many disciplines (including computing research) into their grand challenges, […]
