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 and NobleReach Emerge Partner in New Effort to Catalyze Research and Development in Biotechnology

January 12th, 2023 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy Hunter

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NobleReach Emerge are teaming up to push forward biotechnology development and translation. Biotechnology is a growing market that has enormous potential to benefit society. This $5 million partnership seeks to translate NSF-funded research into marketable bio-inspired designs that will have breakthrough commercial and societal impacts. NobleReach Emerge is a nonprofit that seeks to identify emerging technologies, and bridge ideas into action. NobleReach Emerge has experienced advisors that assess potential paths to product development and a research teams’ business fundamentals. “We want to ensure that all investigators with interest and whose science has commercial potential can make it through the lab-to-market pipeline. This new partnership […]

Reminder: CCC Call for Council Member Nominations

January 10th, 2023 / in Announcements, CCC / by Haley Griffin

Thank you to everyone who has nominated a colleague or self-nominated themselves for the opportunity to be a CCC Council member. As a reminder, nominations are open through 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 10, 2023. Read more about the nomination process and CCC Council member responsibilities in our original post here. If you have any questions, please direct them to the CCC Director Ann Schwartz (aschwartz@cra.org).

Congratulations to the New 2023 Class of IEEE Elevated Fellows

January 9th, 2023 / in Announcements, awards, CCC / by Maddy Hunter

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just announced their 2023 class of Elevated Fellows. Among them are members of the community with past affiliations and/or involvement with the Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium activities.  Fred Chong (Speaker at CCC Workshop “Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role”) Aaron Dollar (Contributor to the 2016 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics) Juan Gilbert (2009 CIFellow Mentor, also participated in several CRA and CRA-WP events) Yoshi Kohno (Presenter Computer Science: Past, Present and Future)  Jana Kosecka (contributor to 2009 and 2020 update to the Roadmap for US Robotics and author of white paper “Next Generation Robotics”) […]

CSET Seminar: The Multinational Artificial Intelligence Landscape

January 4th, 2023 / in AI, Security / by Maddy Hunter

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) will hold their first session in the Security and Emerging Technology Seminar Series of 2023 on Wednesday January 18th at 10AM EDT. The session “The Multinational Artificial Intelligence Landscape” will feature guest speakers Karine Perset (OECD) and Audrey Plonk (OECD) and moderator Dewey Murdick (CSET). Speaker Bios: Karine Perset heads the AI Unit of the OECD Division for Digital Economy Policy. She is in charge of the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and the OECD.AI Network of Experts (ONE AI). She focuses on opportunities and challenges that AI raises for public policy, on policies to help implement the OECD AI Principles and on trends […]

White Papers for Mid-cycle Robotics Roadmap Update due January 9, 2023

December 19th, 2022 / in Announcements, robotics / by Maddy Hunter

A reminder that white papers for a mid-cycle update to the Robotics Roadmap are due January 9, 2023. Through support from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the US National Robotics Roadmap was first created thirteen years ago by a group of 120 people from industry and academia. It has since been used by government agencies, universities and companies as a reference and call to action from the robotics community. The first roadmap was published in 2009, then revised in 2013, 2016, and 2020. Our objective is to develop a short mid-cycle update, identifying gaps that are not being addressed in current research, in funding opportunities, at companies, and in the government, which need to be addressed […]

CCC’s 2022 Highlights

December 15th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy Hunter

The CCC would like to give a special thanks to everyone from the community for their support and participation over the past year. We accomplished a lot of important work in 2022, including getting back to in-person events. Our accomplishments could not have been done without our community volunteers and participants. Please see some of CCC’s highlights from 2022 below or on the CCC webpage. Workshop Reports Meta Hybrid Report – March 2022 From the 2021 The CCC Hybrid Workshop on Best Practices for Hybrid Workshops White Papers Research Opportunities in Evidence-Based Elections Blogs  Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop CIFellows Spotlight: Alexis […]