The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22), June 28 – July 1st, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Congratulations to the winning papers! FIRST – The Web At War: Hypertext, Social Media, and Totalitarianism Mark Bernstein SECOND – From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking Ronen Tamari, Daniel Friedman, William Fischer, Lauren Hebert, and Dafna Shahaf THIRD – Weaponising Social Media for Information Divide and Warfare Ehsan Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson, Tristan Braud, and Pan Hui CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply […]
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.
White House Releases National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems
July 7th, 2022 / in Announcements / by Maddy HunterQuantum Information Science (QIS) offers a new world of computational capabilities beyond the reach of today’s classical computing. At the same time, QIS threatens the cryptographic algorithms upon which modern digital security and privacy is built. The White House recently released the “National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems”, or NSM-10. The memorandum represents the Biden Administration’s plan to maintain the Nation’s competitive advantage in QIS without jeopardizing national security. The memorandum is split into four sections, each outlining specific steps towards achieving this balance. Sec 1. Policy Section 1 outlines the overarching policies of the administration: “(1) to […]
Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research Report Released
July 6th, 2022 / in CCC, CRA-I / by Maddy HunterWritten by Helen Wright and originally posted on the CRA Bulletin Cloud computing has emerged as critical infrastructure for most enterprises worldwide and has become essential for computing research. It has introduced a revolutionary model in which computing resources can be used to store, manage, process, and share data thereby enabling novel workloads and efficiencies of scale. This is in contrast to the traditional model of enterprises relying entirely on acquiring and maintaining in-house local servers and personal computers. The Computing Research Association‘s newest committee, Computing Research Association-Industry (CRA-Industry), held its first workshop organized by Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech) and Fatma Özcan (Google) on Best Practices on Using the Cloud […]
CCC Looks Forward to Working with New Leadership and Council Members
June 30th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Haley GriffinThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is thrilled to announce that as of tomorrow, July 1, Daniel Lopresti will become the new Chair and Nadya T. Bliss will become the new Vice Chair. Both have been essential members of the Council for years and we look forward to their continued leadership in their new roles. Lopresti has been CCC’s Vice Chair since July 1, 2020 and a member of the Council since July 1, 2015. In addition to being the Vice Chair, he has served the Council in many different capacities throughout his tenure, from leading task forces to authoring several quadrennial and white papers, and organizing visioning activities on broad […]
CCC Chair Liz Bradley Transitions to Chair Emerita and Several Council Members Rotate Off
June 29th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Catherine GillThis Thursday, June 30th, marks the end of Elizabeth Bradley’s 2-year term as Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and marks the beginning of her 1-year term as the Chair Emerita. Bradley has been an active member of the CCC since 2012. Her contributions to the community in the past decade are immense, we will share just a few here: In the summer of 2018, the CCC realized a need for broad community engagement and input on research opportunities and challenges in artificial intelligence. Led by Bradley, the CCC reached out to AAAI, a natural partner for the effort, and began the work that would culminate in A […]
NITRD’s 30th Anniversary Symposium Recap – Panel 5: How Technology Can Benefit Society: Broadening Perspectives in Fundamental Research
June 28th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterWritten by Maddy Hunter Last month the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program commemorated their 30th Anniversary in Washington D.C. You can read the full event recap here. In an effort to highlight the impact federal investments have had on the computing research community, the event featured five panels in which participants discussed key achievements in the field over the past decade and future directions going forward. Each panel focused on an important subarea of computer research: Computing at Scale, Networking and Security, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Privacy and the Internet of Things and Socially Responsible Computing. All the panels featured throughout the day at the NITRD 30th […]
