The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently announced their 2022 Fellows. The ACM Fellows award recognizes individuals for their important work and contributions to the computing field. The 2022 ACM Fellows are made up of 57 individuals from many different areas of expertise and countries. ACM states the following about the award: “ACM’s most prestigious member grade recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Candidates for Fellow must have at least 5 years of Professional Membership within the last 10 years.” Among the 2022 ACM Fellows are members of the community […]
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.
Apply to Attend the Ai4 2023 Conference
January 17th, 2023 / in AI, Announcements, conferences / by Maddy HunterAi4 is hosting their 2023 conference August 7-9 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ai4 is an organization that aims to establish a common framework for AI development and use going forward. The conference will bring together business leaders and data practicers spanning a broad array of practice areas from healthcare, to banking and social media to facilitate the responsible adoption of AI and machine learning technology. Ai4 just announced their line up of over 200+ speakers, including JONNIE BRADLEY (Acting Director, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office – U.S. Department of Energy), NITZAN MEKEL-BOBROV (Chief AI Officer – eBay), JIGYASA GROVER (Machine Learning Engineer – Twitter) and many more top […]
NSF and NobleReach Emerge Partner in New Effort to Catalyze Research and Development in Biotechnology
January 12th, 2023 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe National Science Foundation (NSF) and NobleReach Emerge are teaming up to push forward biotechnology development and translation. Biotechnology is a growing market that has enormous potential to benefit society. This $5 million partnership seeks to translate NSF-funded research into marketable bio-inspired designs that will have breakthrough commercial and societal impacts. NobleReach Emerge is a nonprofit that seeks to identify emerging technologies, and bridge ideas into action. NobleReach Emerge has experienced advisors that assess potential paths to product development and a research teams’ business fundamentals. “We want to ensure that all investigators with interest and whose science has commercial potential can make it through the lab-to-market pipeline. This new partnership […]
Reminder: CCC Call for Council Member Nominations
January 10th, 2023 / in Announcements, CCC / by Haley GriffinThank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated themselves for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member. As a reminder, nominations are open through 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 10, 2023. Read more about the nomination process and CCC Council member responsibilities in our original post here. If you have any questions, please direct them to the CCC Director Ann Schwartz (aschwartz@cra.org).
Congratulations to the New 2023 Class of IEEE Elevated Fellows
January 9th, 2023 / in Announcements, awards, CCC / by Maddy HunterThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just announced their 2023 class of Elevated Fellows. Among them are members of the community with past affiliations and/or involvement with the Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium activities. Fred Chong (Speaker at CCC Workshop “Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role”) Aaron Dollar (Contributor to the 2016 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics) Juan Gilbert (2009 CIFellow Mentor, also participated in several CRA and CRA-WP events) Yoshi Kohno (Presenter Computer Science: Past, Present and Future) Jana Kosecka (contributor to 2009 and 2020 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics and author of white paper “Next Generation Robotics”) […]
CSET Seminar: The Multinational Artificial Intelligence Landscape
January 4th, 2023 / in AI, Security / by Maddy HunterThe Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) will hold their first session in the Security and Emerging Technology Seminar Series of 2023 on Wednesday January 18th at 10AM EDT. The session “The Multinational Artificial Intelligence Landscape” will feature guest speakers Karine Perset (OECD) and Audrey Plonk (OECD) and moderator Dewey Murdick (CSET). Speaker Bios: Karine Perset heads the AI Unit of the OECD Division for Digital Economy Policy. She is in charge of the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and the OECD.AI Network of Experts (ONE AI). She focuses on opportunities and challenges that AI raises for public policy, on policies to help implement the OECD AI Principles and on trends […]
