The CCC is thrilled to welcome Haley Griffin to the team! The Computing Research Association recently hired Haley as a Program Associate for the CCC subcommittee. In this role, she will support the CCC mission through facilitating workshops, completing administrative tasks, and assisting with communications deliverables. “CCC is delighted to have Haley Griffin join us as a Program Associate. Her energy, her writing skills, and her work experience in nonprofit organizations will be assets to CCC in its mission to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research.” -Liz Bradley, CCC Chair Previously she worked for AmeriCorps as a Literacy Coordinator where she helped students […]
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.
CCC Welcomes New Program Associate Haley Griffin
February 17th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Maddy HunterOSTP’s Continuing Work on AI Technology and Uses that Can Benefit Us All
February 15th, 2022 / in AI, policy, research horizons / by Maddy HunterThis blog was originally posted by Lynne Parker, Director, National AI Initiative Office, and Rashida Richardson, Senior Policy Advisor for Data and Democracy on the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more prevalent in all of our lives. It powers all kinds of tools, from the digital assistants that answer questions on your phone, to breakthroughs in reading X-rays to better spot cancers. The so-called “intelligence” is the result of powerful computers sorting through mountains of data to find patterns, using algorithms designed and optimized by computer scientists. Like all technology, AI is far from perfect. As we have started using AI for […]
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins – NSF Distinguished Lecture Series: Semantic Robot Programming and the Irresistible Tastiness of Seed Corn
February 14th, 2022 / in CCC, NSF, robotics / by Maddy HunterChad Jenkins, CCC Council Member, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Director of the Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan will be featured as a part of the National Science Foundation’s Distinguished Lecture Series on March 3rd from 11am-12:30pm EDT. Jenkins earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at Alma College (1996), M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (1998), and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (2003). He previously served on the faculty of Brown University in Computer Science (2004-15). His research addresses problems in interactive robotics and human-robot interaction, primarily focused on mobile manipulation, robot perception, and robot learning from […]
Mona Singh: Cracking the Code for Cancer
February 10th, 2022 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterMona Singh, CCC Council Member and Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University was featured on the Princeton University website for her work in combining biology and computer science to combat cancer. In high school, Singh had been interested in matters of biology and medicine but her passions belonged to math and computer science. Eventually, she joined a biophysics lab, where she applied the computer science skills she’d learned to automate data collection for the lab. “I think that experience planted the seeds for using computer science in molecular biology,” she said. “I really loved the methods of computer science and thinking about […]
Announcing Call for Blue Sky Papers Track at HyperText 2022
February 9th, 2022 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, call for papers, CCC / by Maddy HunterThe 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media will be held in Barcelona, Spain June 28 – July 1, 2022. The conference focuses on high quality research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. Research concerns all aspects of hypertext ranging from social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. ACM’s HT Conference 2022 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to initiate a new Blue Sky paper track that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. This track solicits papers relevant to Hypertext and Social Media content that go beyond the usual research paper to present new visions that stimulate the community to pursue innovative […]
Call for Nominations: The National Medal of Science
February 8th, 2022 / in Announcements, awards, NSF / by Maddy HunterThe National Science Foundation is currently seeking nominations for the National Medal of Science (NMS), the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. In 1959, the 86th Congress established the NMS as a Presidential Award, given to individuals “deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.” The award has since been expanded to include social and behavioral scientists. A committee of scientists and engineers appointed by the President evaluate the nominees taking into consideration scientific and engineering achievement along with broader impacts in promoting scientific advancements and in societal benefits. So far 506 scientists and […]
