Through support from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the US National Robotics Roadmap was first created thirteen years ago by a group of 120 people from industry and academia. It has since been used by government agencies, universities and companies as a reference and call to action from the robotics community. The first roadmap was published in 2009, then revised in 2013, 2016, and 2020. Our objective is to develop a short mid-cycle update, identifying gaps that are not being addressed in current research, in funding opportunities, at companies, and in the government, which need to be addressed sooner than the next full roadmap update. To meet this objective, we […]
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.
Call for White Papers: Mid-cycle Robotics Roadmap Update
November 28th, 2022 / in Announcements, call for papers, CCC, CCC-led white papers, robotics / by Maddy HunterBlue Sky Track Winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022
November 21st, 2022 / in Announcements, awards, Blue Sky / by Maddy HunterThe The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. The conference was held in Seattle, Washington on on November 1st-4th, 2022. 1st Place: “Causal Inference for Interpretable and Robust Machine Learning in Mobility Analysis” by Yanan Xin (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich), Natasa Tagasovska (Prescient Design, Genentech | Roche), Fernando Perez-Cruz (Swiss Data Science Center) and Martin Raubal (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich) 2nd Place: “Geospatial Accessibility and Inclusion by Combining Contextual Filters, the Metaverse and Ambient Intelligence” by Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs – Research), Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T) and Divesh Srivastava (AT&T). 3rd Place: “Electric Vehicle […]
Blue Sky Track Winners at ICMI 2022
November 17th, 2022 / in research horizons, Research News, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the ICMI 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. The conference was held in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India on on November 7-11th. 1st Place: “On the Horizon: Interactive and Compositional Deepfakes” by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft. 2nd Place: “Beyond the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction: A Centennial Vision of Interplanetary Virtual Spaces in Turn-based Metaverse” by Lik Hang Lee (KAIST), Carlos Bermejo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ahmad Alhilal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Tristan Braud (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Simo Hosio (University of Oulu), Esmée de Haas, and Pan Hui Hong Kong University of Science […]
The National Library of Medicine’s Impact on AI Research
November 16th, 2022 / in AI, Research News, resources / by Maddy HunterThe National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been providing the medical field with information since 1836. Starting off as a small collection of books, the entity has grown into the world’s largest biomedical library, housing biomedical research and computational health data research. NLM supports two research programs, the Division of Extramural Programs (EP) and Intramural Research Program (IRP), that seek to catalyze advancements in the intersection of medicine and computer science. Specifically, these programs focus on biomedical informatics, data science, computational biology, and computational health. Through these programs NLM is making major investments in finding new ways that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in the medical field. A couple […]
Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop
November 15th, 2022 / in CCC, research horizons / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium just held a two-part workshop, “Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations”. The workshops were sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnership (TIP). TIP has a major initiative “Convergence Accelerator” that funds programs seeking to solve societal challenges through convergence research and innovation. The goal is to encourage interdisciplinary work, “merging ideas, approaches and technologies from a wide and diverse range of sectors and expertise.” The first workshop in the series was held in-person in Denver, Colorado on October 27-28th, 2022. The goal was to frame the research focus for impact areas (application domains), computing research building […]
CIFellows Spotlight: Gokul Subramanian Ravi
November 14th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterGokul Subramanian Ravi began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD (focused on computer architecture) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2020. Gokul is currently at the University of Chicago working on quantum computing with Frederic Chong, Seymour Goodman Professor of Computer Science. Linked are his blogs on variational quantum algorithms and bringing more classical computer architects into the quantum world. Gokul is currently on the 2022-23 academic job market. The remainder of this post is written by Gokul Ravi Current Project Quantum computing is a disruptive technological paradigm with the potential to revolutionize computing, and therefore, the world. Over three decades, the promise of quantum computing […]
