The Marconi Society will host a free virtual Symposium, The Decade of Digital Inclusion, on November 2-3, 2022. The Marconi Society is a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to creating digital equity. This event honors wireless innovator, Siavash Alamouti, recipient of the Eric E. Sumner Award, and the program includes a number of technology notables. With nearly half the world unconnected and $42B in broadband infrastructure funding going out to states in the US right now, digital equity is center stage in the journey to bring opportunity to everyone. The Decade of Digital Inclusion brings together technologists, policy makers and digital inclusion advocates to create collaborations to bridge […]
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.
The Marconi Society Hosts a Virtual Symposium, the Decade of Digital Inclusion on November 2-3rd, 2022
October 31st, 2022 / in AI, Announcements, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterCRA Workshop on “Accessible Technology for All”
October 27th, 2022 / in CCC, CRA, CRA-I / by Maddy HunterOriginally written by Helen Wright and posted in CRA’s Computing Research News (CRN): The Computing Research Association (CRA) is planning an Accessible Technology for All workshop co-hosted by CRA-Industry (CRA-I), Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and CRA-Widening Participation (CRA-WP) on February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC. This workshop is one of the activities CRA is currently pursuing under the umbrella of Socially Responsible Computing, one of the topics identified in the recent CRA Strategic Planning Effort. The purpose of this workshop is to convene academic, industry, and government representatives to vision ways to make all technology accessible and why that is important and necessary for society as a whole. Technology should […]
Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss is appointed to the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable
October 25th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Catherine GillThe Computing Community Consortium would like to congratulate the Vice Chair of the CCC, Dr. Nadya Bliss, on her appointment to the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable. In January of 2021, Congress voted to direct the National Academies to establish the Climate Security Roundtable, which will provide expert support to the federal Climate Security Advisory Council (CSAC) in foreseeing and preventing climate security crises from escalating into issues of national security. This roundtable will facilitate conversations and collaboration surrounding a number of topics, including dissemination of relevant climate change data and information, discussion of understudied risks associated with climate change, improvements to existing climate change models and simulations, and […]
Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, Moshe Vardi, Shares Concern Over Lack of Incentive Structure in Cybersecurity
October 24th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterMoshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science Professor at Rice University and Senior Editor of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), wrote an article in the November 2022 issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine, Accountability and Liability in Computing. The article articulates his concerns for the slow progress and lack of conclusive knowledge on how to build secure information systems. Vardi speculates the issue is not due to a lack of technical advancements but a lack of incentives encouraging hardware security developments and solutions. It is becoming vital to address this “market failure” as we become more reliant on technical systems and become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Vardi […]
A Computer Scientist is Named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow
October 19th, 2022 / in AI, Announcements / by Maddy HunterThe MacArthur Foundation recently announced its 2022 MacArthur Fellows – 25 individuals whose achievements show “new modes of activism, artistic practice, and citizen science. They are excavators uncovering what has been overlooked, undervalued, or poorly understood. They are archivists reminding us of what should survive.” The MacArthur Fellows program grants each recipient a no-strings attached stipend of $800,000 in order to support his or her own creative and professional ambitions. The program features scientists, artists, historians, and writers. Among the new Fellows is Computer scientist Yejin Choi. Dr. Choi is currently the Brett Helsel Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington at Seattle, […]
Upcoming Virtual CCC Workshop: Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop
October 18th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterOn November 10, 2022 from 12:00-3:00pm EST, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is hosting a virtual workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program. This workshop will be the second of a two part workshop series titled, Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop, the first of which will be held in late October. Through this two-part workshop series, we hope to identify the computing building blocks needed to facilitate and expedite technological innovation in multiple impact areas. The focus of the workshops will be on a subset of impact areas identified in the CCC white paper titled, Computing Research for […]
