The Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) just released a white paper reflecting ideas that were presented and discussed at the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility sponsored by the CSL at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with co-sponsorship by the School of Information Sciences at the University. This symposium was the second of two symposia sponsored by CSL to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Contemporary AI technologies are more powerful and pervasive than the original AI technologies created in university laboratories. While industry dominates AI today, universities can still play important roles. In this white paper, we recommend actions that universities should take to promote social responsibility in the development and […]
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 Coordinated Science Laboratory Releases a White Paper on Key Findings from their Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility
November 10th, 2022 / in AI, Announcements / by Maddy HunterWebinar on Becoming a CISE IPA Program Director (Rotator) at NSF
November 3rd, 2022 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterThe NSF will be hosting a webinar “Becoming a CISE IPA Program Director (Rotator) at NSF” on November 7th, 2022 from 4:00-5:00 PM EDT. The synopsis is below: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an IPA Program Director, take time out of your current position, and come to the National Science Foundation (NSF)? Do you want to hear what it takes to come to NSF and what you would do once you got here? What is it like reading proposals that may change the science or leading review panels with experts from around the country? This webinar will address these issues and introduce you to […]
The Marconi Society Hosts a Virtual Symposium, the Decade of Digital Inclusion on November 2-3rd, 2022
October 31st, 2022 / in AI, Announcements, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe Marconi Society will host a free virtual Symposium, The Decade of Digital Inclusion, on November 2-3, 2022. The Marconi Society is a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to creating digital equity. This event honors wireless innovator, Siavash Alamouti, recipient of the Eric E. Sumner Award, and the program includes a number of technology notables. With nearly half the world unconnected and $42B in broadband infrastructure funding going out to states in the US right now, digital equity is center stage in the journey to bring opportunity to everyone. The Decade of Digital Inclusion brings together technologists, policy makers and digital inclusion advocates to create collaborations to bridge […]
CRA Workshop on “Accessible Technology for All”
October 27th, 2022 / in CCC, CRA, CRA-I / by Maddy HunterOriginally written by Helen Wright and posted in CRA’s Computing Research News (CRN): The Computing Research Association (CRA) is planning an Accessible Technology for All workshop co-hosted by CRA-Industry (CRA-I), Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and CRA-Widening Participation (CRA-WP) on February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC. This workshop is one of the activities CRA is currently pursuing under the umbrella of Socially Responsible Computing, one of the topics identified in the recent CRA Strategic Planning Effort. The purpose of this workshop is to convene academic, industry, and government representatives to vision ways to make all technology accessible and why that is important and necessary for society as a whole. Technology should […]
Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss is appointed to the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable
October 25th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Catherine GillThe Computing Community Consortium would like to congratulate the Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss, on her appointment to the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable. In January of 2021, Congress voted to direct the National Academies to establish the Climate Security Roundtable, which will provide expert support to the federal Climate Security Advisory Council (CSAC) in foreseeing and preventing climate security crises from escalating into issues of national security. This roundtable will facilitate conversations and collaboration surrounding a number of topics, including dissemination of relevant climate change data and information, discussion of understudied risks associated with climate change, improvements to existing climate change models and simulations, and […]
Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, Moshe Vardi, Shares Concern Over Lack of Incentive Structure in Cybersecurity
October 24th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterMoshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science Professor at Rice University and Senior Editor of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), wrote an article in the November 2022 issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine, Accountability and Liability in Computing. The article articulates his concerns for the slow progress and lack of conclusive knowledge on how to build secure information systems. Vardi speculates the issue is not due to a lack of technical advancements but a lack of incentives encouraging hardware security developments and solutions. It is becoming vital to address this “market failure” as we become more reliant on technical systems and become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Vardi […]
