Originally posted on the CRA Bulletin by Shar Steed ACM has named Jack J. Dongarra recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades. From the announcement: Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He also holds appointments with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Manchester. The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, […]
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.
ACM Announces 2021 A.M. Turing Award Recipient
March 31st, 2022 / in Announcements, awards / by Maddy HunterCommunity Response to RFI on Incentives, Infrastructure, and Research and Development Needs To Support a Strong Domestic Semiconductor Industry
March 30th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons / by Haley GriffinThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) with input from CRA-Industry recently responded to the Department of Commerce and the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Request for Information on Incentives, Infrastructure, and Research and Development Needs to Support a Strong Domestic Semiconductor Industry. The RFI was seeking information in order to inform the planning and design of potential programs to: Incentivize investment in semiconductor manufacturing facilities and associated ecosystems; provide for shared infrastructure to accelerate semiconductor research, development, and prototyping; and support research related to advanced packaging and advanced metrology to ensure a robust domestic semiconductor industry. This response was written by Tom Conte (Georgia Tech), Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University), […]
Upcoming NSF Deadlines
March 28th, 2022 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterThe National Science Foundations (NSF) has a few deadlines coming up for research funding opportunities. You can see a full list of their solicitations on the NSF website here. Expeditions in Computing Due April 25, 2022 Created over a decade ago, the Expeditions in Computing project invites researchers to submit proposals outlining a creative, transformative research agenda that looks ahead at least a decade and promise “disruptive” innovations in computing and engineering. Now Now funded at levels up to $15,000,000 for seven years Expeditions projects represent some of the largest single investments currently made by the CISE directorate Research Coordination Networks: Fostering and Nurturing a Diverse Community of CI Professionals Due […]
Submit a Proposal for the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting
March 24th, 2022 / in AAAS, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterAfter two years of being virtual, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is thrilled to announce the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in person March 2-5, 2023 in Washington D.C. AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society dedicated to the advancement of science for societal good and each year they hold a Annual Meeting featuring lectures, flash talk sessions, e-poster presentations and international exhibit hall to bring together experts form a broad range of disciplines to discuss new research and developments in science, technology and policy. The theme for next year is Science for Humanity and will aim to highlight groundbreaking multi-disciplinary research that […]
CCC Releases “Meta Hybrid” Report Out
March 23rd, 2022 / in CCC, workshop reports / by Catherine GillThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored a hybrid workshop “Best Practices for Hybrid Workshops” where around 30 participants from the fields of academia, industry, and government were given the opportunity to discuss the costs, benefits, and risks of Hybrid conferences, which have become increasingly prevalent since the beginning of Covid-19. Organized by Sujata Banerjee (VMware), Maria Gini (University of Minnesota), Daniel P. Lopresti (Lehigh University), and Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts Lowell), this workshop focused on discussing the increased inequities introduced by hybrid conferences, such as difficulties for visually and verbally impaired individuals to follow presentations, the loss of social interaction between conference participants, and problems with incompatible technologies, such […]
Deepfake of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Calling for Citizens to Surrender Calls Attention to the Dangers of Misinformation
March 22nd, 2022 / in AI / by Maddy HunterEuronews just posted an article about the recent “deep-fake” video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling on Ukrainian citizens to surrender. The fake video was viewed over 120,000 times on Twitter and is another example of how misinformation/disinformation is used to intentionally manipulate the public and can lead to extreme consequences. Deepfakes are videos edited using Artificial Intelligence and deep learning techniques to replicate the face and voice of a person to create a false narrative. Good deep fakes can be seemingly authentic and harder for the public to spot as false. “Videos made through such technologies are almost impossible to distinguish from the real ones,” the authority said in […]
