The Alan T. Waterman award is the nation’s highest honor for early career researchers. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) posted a blog about the 2022 winners, highlighting Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder. The National Science Foundation is holding a three-part lecture series, each featuring one of the three 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award Winners: Lara Thompson, University of the District of Columbia Falls and aging — the need for biomedical solutions to a global problem September 12, 1-2 p.m. Eastern. Thompson’s research focuses on the effects of equilibrium loss on postural control and balance. Through her work, she investigates various […]
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.
NSF Lectures Series from the 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award Winners
August 25th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterStanford Designs new Chip to Improve AI Computing Efficiency
August 24th, 2022 / in AI, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterEdge artificial intelligence (AI) is the deployment of AI devices at the edge of networks, in other words these devices are collecting and computing data close to the user. An example of this is a self-driving car. Data pertaining to the proximity of other cars, traffic and obstacles are being collected and computed by the car rather than in a cloud computing facility or private data center. These technological capabilities enable organizations to increase automation and improve processes, efficiency and safety. Currently these edge devices are limited by their battery power. A massive amount of the technology’s energy goes towards moving the data between the compute unit (where the data […]
CSET Launches Tool for Exploration of Global AI Ecosystem
August 18th, 2022 / in AI, CCC / by Maddy HunterThe Center Security and Emerging Technology just launched the Country Activity Tracker (CAT), an interactive tool that portrays countries’ level of tech competitiveness and collaboration. Many countries are in the race for Artificial Intelligence (AI), making massive investments in research and infrastructure to remain competitive in the tech sphere. The United States is no exception, with many policies and initiatives geared towards remaining the world leader in tech and AI. CAT collects data and presents metrics on AI research, patents and investment-related activities in AI across the globe. Researchers and policy makers can use CAT to examine other countries’ AI ecosystems, compare metrics and progress between countries’ and explore opportunities […]
NSF TIP Quarterly Report
August 16th, 2022 / in Announcements, NSF / by Maddy HunterThe National Science Foundations (NSF) newly established Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) sent out their first quarterly newsletter. The newsletter is intended to update the community on existing investments, new initiatives/funding opportunities, events, job opportunities and more. TIP was established earlier this year to catalyze innovation and research in emerging technologies and encourage collaboration across disciplines and sectors to address pivotal challenges facing our country and maintain our country’s competitive edge in the technology sphere. A couple highlights from this weeks newsletter include: Last week President Biden signed into law the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which officially authorizes the TIP directorate. NSF Regional Innovation Engines, […]
CIFellow Spotlight: Alexis Block – Mobile Social- Physical Human-Robot Interaction and Embodiment
August 10th, 2022 / in CCC, CIFellows, CIFellows Spotlight, robotics / by Maddy HunterCIFellow, Alexis E. Block began her CIFellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in September 2021. Block is mentored by Veronica J. Santos, Director of the UCLA Biomechatronics Laboratory, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the school’s Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Faculty Affairs. Prior to beginning her CIFellowship, she received her Dr. sc. from ETH Zurich where she was a part of a joint program called the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. Block recently won the Otto Hahn Medal from Germany’s Max Planck Society for her dissertation work in human-robot interaction and the development of the “HuggieBot” which you can read about here. […]
CCC Council Member Katie Siek Releases Paper Discussing why Submitting “junk data” to Period Tracking Apps will not Aid in Protecting Reproductive Privacy
August 8th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC, Privacy / by Catherine GillLast month, CCC council member Katie Siek, along with two PhD student collaborators, Zaidat Ibrahim and Alexander Hayes from Indiana University, released an article in the journal The Conversation about public concern regarding the use of period tracking apps. Recently, many, including researchers and experts, have voiced apprehension over using period tracking applications since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, fearing that state and local governments may attempt to subpoena user’s period data from the owners of these apps. Some have even gone so far as to input false data into these period tracking apps, in the hopes that this “junk data” will confuse the applications’ algorithms, and cause […]
