The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University David Jensen, University of Massachusetts Amherst Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan Raj Rajaraman, Northeastern University Matthew Turk, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Pam Wisniewski, Vanderbilt University Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms. The CCC Council is comprised of 20 members who have expertise in diverse areas of computing. They are instrumental in leading CCC’s visioning programs, which help catalyze and enable ideas for future computing research. Members serve staggered three-year terms that rotate every July. […]
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.
NITRD 30th Anniversary Symposium Recap
June 8th, 2022 / in Announcements, NITRD / by Maddy HunterThe NITRD 30th Anniversary Symposium was held in Washington D.C. at the National Spy Museum. The event provided an opportunity for the computing research community to come together and celebrate the impact that federal funding has had on computing technologies, innovations and the world at large. The day featured insightful remarks from key leaders in the community including Alondra Nelson (Deputy Assistant to the President Deputy Director for Science and Society White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), Barbara McQuiston (Director of Defense Research and Engineering for Research and Technology in the Department of Defense), Kamie Roberts (Director of the National Coordination Office for the Networking and Information Technology […]
Building Stronger Regional Academia-Industry-Government Computing Research Partnerships
June 6th, 2022 / in Announcements, CRA-I, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterWritten by Helen Wright, CRA-Industry In April 2022, CRA-Industry held its third roundtable event focused on Building Stronger Regional Academia-Industry-Government Computing Research Partnerships. The purpose of this roundtable was to convene partners across academia, industry, and government to understand successful approaches and to discuss the value of partnerships and best practices. The session was moderated by two members of the CRA-Industry steering committee: Mary Hall (University of Utah) and Ben Zorn (Microsoft). The panelists were Erwin Gianchandani (National Science Foundation), Charles Isbell (Georgia Institute of Technology), Greg King (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Phyllis Schneck (Northrop Grumman). In order to pinpoint success and call out specific interactions, the moderators decided […]
CSET Seminar Series: Connecting the Quad
June 2nd, 2022 / in AI / by Maddy HunterThe Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) will be holding a webinar “Connecting the Quad” that focuses on increasing Increasing AI Collaboration between the United States, Australia, India and Japan. The seminar is a part of CSET’s seminar series that aims to bring together leaders from government and the private sector for discussions of how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies alter the national and international security landscape. The Computing Community Consortium is a big proponent of international cooperation among the computing community in order to tackle world problems and benefit from each others’ knowledge and strengths. International participation in workshops and CCC activities is encouraged to catalyze computing […]
CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino Elected as ACM Vice President
May 31st, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Maddy HunterLast week, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), announced their election results. Among the new leadership was Computing Community Consortium Council Member, Elisa Bertino. She will begin her new two-year term as ACM Vice President on July 1. Bertino is a Professor of Computer Science and research director at CERIAS at Purdue University, and a Fellow of both ACM and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She has a long standing affiliation with ACM, formerly serving as the ACM Secretary/Treasurer, a 2019–2020 ACM Athena Lecturer and served on the editorial board for the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. In addition, she is the Secretary/Treasurer John West, […]
SFI Community Lecture: Ignorance, Failure, Uncertainty, and the Optimism of Science
May 18th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterNeuroscientist and Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Fractal Faculty Member Stuart Firestein, will present “Ignorance, Failure, Uncertainty, and the Optimism of Science” as a SFI Community Lecture. The talk, held on May 24th at 7:30PM US Mountain Time, teaches listeners to use the unknown and uncertainty in the world as creative opportunities and motivation for progress. Lecture Abstract: Science is a fundamentally optimistic enterprise. More than a cheery disposition, it is the source of a philosophical outlook that we might call ‘optimistical’. It reliably produces fundamental and actionable knowledge about the world. We are able to take for granted, in a way even our recent ancestors never imagined, the idea of […]
