Written by Helen Wright and originally posted on the CRA-I Blog The Computing Research Association (CRA) is now accepting applications for its biennial CRA Career Mentoring Workshops (CMWs). The workshops provide valuable career advice and mentoring activities to people just beginning or in the early stages of their computing research careers. Building on the success of more than two decades of workshops for starting a tenure-track position in academia, this year’s program is expanded to include a workshop on teaching and a track on launching a computing research career in industry. Taking place in Washington, D.C., participants have the option to join one or both workshops. CMW: Teaching will be held February […]
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.
The CRA Career Mentoring Workshops Now Accepting Applications
October 31st, 2023 / in CRA-I / by Maddy HunterCCC Council Members Publish White Paper on Algorithmic Robustness
October 17th, 2023 / in Announcements, CCC, CCC-led white papers / by Haley GriffinCCC Council Members David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Brian LaMacchia (Farcaster Consulting Group, LLC), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas Austin), and Pamela Wisniewski (Vanderbilt University), wrote a white paper titled “Algorithmic Robustness,” that has just been published on the CCC Website. The group was part of the Socio-technical Resilience Task Force in 2022-23. Computational systems are pervasive throughout every sector of society, and the authors emphasize the need for such systems to be robust. Robustness is the “sustained performance of a computational system in the face of change in the nature of the environment in which that system operates or in the task that the system is meant to […]
Blue Sky Track Winners at ICMI’23
October 12th, 2023 / in Blue Sky, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’23). The conference was held in Paris, France on on October 9-13th. 1st Place: “From Natural to Non-Natural Interaction: Embracing Interaction Design Beyond the Accepted Convention of Natural” by Radu-Daniel Vatavu: MintViz Lab, MANSiD Research Center, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava 2nd Place: “A New Theory of Data Processing: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Cognition and Humanity” by Jingwei Liu: University of California San Diego 3rd Place: “Towards Adaptive User-centered Neuro-symbolic Learning for Multimodal Interaction with Autonomous Systems” by Amr Gomaa: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarland Informatics Campus and Michael Feld: German […]
The CCC Responds to White House Request for Information on Open-Source Software Security: Areas of Long-Term Focus and Prioritization
October 10th, 2023 / in CCC / by Maddy HunterIn September 2023, the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a request for information on Open-Source Software Security: Areas of Long-Term Focus and Prioritization. The RFI invited public comments on areas of long-term focus and prioritization on open-source software security. Open-source software is crucial for national security, the economy, and technological innovation. Vulnerabilities in this software can lead to widespread negative impacts, especially since open-source software is extensively used in federal government and critical infrastructure. In 2021, the ONCD launched the Open-Source […]
Heidelberg Laureates Warn Against a False Sense of Security with Current Encryption Methods
October 4th, 2023 / in Announcements, CCC / by Catherine GillDuring the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum last week, I had the opportunity to interview several of the laureates to hear their perspectives on current and future challenges in computing. Two of these laureates that I was fortunate enough to sit down with were Dr. Avi Wigderson and Dr. Yael Tauman Kalai (short bios are at the end of this blog). With access to two leading experts in cryptography, I asked them both about the new era of cryptography we are entering, post-quantum cryptography (PQC). RSA encryption, the most commonly used form of encryption today, was invented in 1977 by Ron Rivet, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT. […]
Former Council Member, Suresh Venkatasubramanian Featured in Article for His Role in Developing the White House’s Framework for AI
October 3rd, 2023 / in AI, CCC, workshop reports / by Maddy HunterFormer CCC Council member, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, was recently featured in Fast Company article “How Suresh Venkatasubramanian helped write the White House’s framework for AI governance”. In 2021, Venkatasubramanian joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as its assistant director for science and justice to think through all the risks that automation poses and limits that should be imposed on the technology. As part of his job, Venkatasubramanian coauthored the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, a broad framework for protecting people’s rights in the world of AI. Released last October, the Blueprint has had tangible effects on White House actions. Earlier this year, one section of […]
