Pending funding, the National Institute of Health (NIH) plans to launch the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program. Collaboratively managed by the NIH Common Fund, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the National Eye Institute, the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and the National Library of Medicine, the program seeks to provide comprehensive, high-quality and ethically sourced datasets to catalyze the widespread use of AI in the biomedical and behavioral research communities. AI has the ability to transform the biomedical and behavioral science fields. Possible applications include informing clinical decision making, monitoring and predicting health needs in real time and […]
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.
NIH Launches Bridge2AI Program to Accelerate the Widespread Introduction of AI into the Biomedical and Behavioral Science Fields
September 13th, 2022 / in AI, Announcements, CRA, Healthcare, Research News / by Maddy HunterFormer CCC Council Member Ian Foster Named 2022 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient
September 8th, 2022 / in Announcements, awards, CCC / by Maddy HunterIan Foster, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member and Professor at the University of Chicago and Division Director at Argonne National Laboratory, was just named the 2022 Ken Kennedy award recipient. Presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE-CS) the Ken Kennedy Award is an annual honor recognizing contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and community service or mentoring contributions. You can see past award winners here. Foster is recognized for his substantial contributions in accelerating scientific discovery in computational science by establishing innovative, newfangled applications of distributed computing both within supercomputers and over networks. His work […]
Register for Intro to NSF’s TIP Directorate Webinar
August 31st, 2022 / in NSF, Research News, resources, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe National Science Foundation’s (NSF) new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) is holding an introductory webinar September 27th from 2-3PM ET. The TIP directorate seeks to catalyze research and create breakthrough technologies by fostering a healthy, lucrative ecosystem of high-wage, high-impact STEM jobs. Through a number of programs and investments, TIP works towards accelerating the transition from research to impact and establishing smooth transitions of technological products from the lab to the market. You can learn more about TIP’s programs, objectives and funding opportunities by registering for the webinar here. You can get a brief overview from reading a recent CCC blog post recapping NSF TIP’s first quarterly […]
The CCC Transitions Back to In-Person Workshops Following the Pandemic
August 29th, 2022 / in CCC / by Maddy HunterThe COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of the world and the way we do things. One of those aspects was conferences, as well as the in-person visioning activities considered to be the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) bread and butter. The community relies on these activities to forge new connections, spark collaborations and bring people together to discuss interdisciplinary problems and solutions. Since the onset of the pandemic, the CCC held a number of virtual and hybrid workshops to provide a venue for important research discussions and enable networking and social interaction while researchers could not get together as they did in the past. The virtual hiatus, while beneficial in many […]
NSF Lectures Series from the 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award Winners
August 25th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe Alan T. Waterman award is the nation’s highest honor for early career researchers. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) posted a blog about the 2022 winners, highlighting Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder. The National Science Foundation is holding a three-part lecture series, each featuring one of the three 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award Winners: Lara Thompson, University of the District of Columbia Falls and aging — the need for biomedical solutions to a global problem September 12, 1-2 p.m. Eastern. Thompson’s research focuses on the effects of equilibrium loss on postural control and balance. Through her work, she investigates various […]
Stanford Designs new Chip to Improve AI Computing Efficiency
August 24th, 2022 / in AI, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterEdge artificial intelligence (AI) is the deployment of AI devices at the edge of networks, in other words these devices are collecting and computing data close to the user. An example of this is a self-driving car. Data pertaining to the proximity of other cars, traffic and obstacles are being collected and computed by the car rather than in a cloud computing facility or private data center. These technological capabilities enable organizations to increase automation and improve processes, efficiency and safety. Currently these edge devices are limited by their battery power. A massive amount of the technology’s energy goes towards moving the data between the compute unit (where the data […]
