Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University, will present “How Technology Will Dictate Our Civic Future,” as part the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series on February 10th, 2022 from 12pm – 1:15pm EDT. Latanya Sweeney is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the a part of the faculty for the Department of Arts and Sciences. In addition, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Technology Science, director and founder of the Public Interest Tech Lab and of the Data Privacy Lab. Before coming to Harvard she was the Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. […]
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 CISE Distinguished Lecture: Latanya Sweeney – How Technology Will Dictate Our Civic Future
January 25th, 2022 / in Announcements, NSF, policy, Privacy / by Maddy HunterCongratulations to Maria Gini – 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award Winner
January 20th, 2022 / in Announcements, awards, CCC / by Maddy HunterOriginally posted on the CRA Bulletin by Shar Steed CCC Council Member and CRA-WP Board Member Maria Gini was recently named the recipient of the 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, one of the major SIGAI awards. Maria Gini is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She also currently serves as a co-director for the Grad Cohort Workshop for Women and the CSGrad4US Mentoring Program. From the citation: Professor Gini has been a leader in the field of robotics and multi-agent systems for many years, consistently bringing AI into robotics. She contributed novel algorithms to connect the logical and geometric aspects of robot motion and learning, novel robot […]
DARPA Releases GARD Program to Help Strengthen AI Against Attacks
January 19th, 2022 / in AI, Security / by Maddy HunterThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released a new program Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception (GARD) to aid Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers in testing their models’ defenses against attacks. A team of large technology players from academia and industry, including IBM, MITRE, University of Chicago and Google Research collaborated to make a set of open source testing tools. The tools, ranging from a virtual evaluation testbed, a benchmark dataset, and “test dummies” help identify vulnerabilities in AI systems and make systems more robust against an increasingly complex range of attacks. The growing field of Machine Learning (ML) enables a large range of opportunities for societal and technological growth, but […]
The CCC is Hiring Program Associates
January 14th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Maddy HunterHelp Enable the Future of Computing Research – Join CRA as a Program Associate By Shar Steed – Originally posted on the CRA Bulletin The Computing Research Association (CRA) seeks two highly-motivated individuals to join its staff as Program Associate or Senior Program Associate (depending on qualifications and experience). The positions involve work primarily with CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee, which aims to catalyze the computing research community to pursue innovative, high-impact research. The CCC is run as a cooperative agreement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and CRA. Each position works closely with the Director of the CCC, the CRA staff, CCC Council members and members of the computing research community to […]
CCC White Paper on Research Opportunities in Evidence-Based Elections is Now Available
January 12th, 2022 / in CCC, CCC-led white papers, Security / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Research Opportunities in Evidence-Based Elections white paper, written by Josh Benaloh (Microsoft Research), Philip B. Stark (University of California, Berkeley), Vanessa Teague (Australian National University), Melanie Volkamer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and Dan Wallach (Rice University). This white paper highlights the need for evidence-based elections, which can convince people that the results of elections are accurate, and suggests several technologies that could play a role in this, mostly focused on risk-limiting audits and end-to-end verifiability. “A risk-limiting audit (RLA) is any procedure with a known minimum chance of correcting the reported electoral outcome if the reported electoral outcome is wrong—that is, if […]
Using Digital Hardware and Software to Gather Clinical Data from Remote Participants
January 11th, 2022 / in Healthcare, policy / by Maddy HunterLast week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released guidelines for remote data acquisition in clinical investigations. The draft report focused on best practices for stakeholders that use digital health technologies to collect data from participants in clinical investigations evaluating medical products. The following are some of the considerations outlined in the report for those using digital health technologies to collect data in this manner: Technology selection, factoring in investigation population, DHT design and the appropriateness of participants’ own tools, as well as how to explain the tools’ suitability in submissions. Verification, validation and usability of the technology. Using tools to collect data for clinical endpoints. Technology risks, such as […]
