The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a visioning workshop on Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security during the summer of 2022 (exact date and location TBD). We seek short white papers to help create the agenda for the workshop and select attendees. Workshop organizers Simha Sethumadhavan (Columbia University) and Tim Sherwood (University of California Santa Barbara) will host an orientation webinar from 1 – 2:30 PM ET on Thursday, January 13th, 2022 to outline the goals of the workshop and expand on what they are looking for in the white papers. Following the pre-recorded presentations there will be an opportunity for Q&A with the speakers. Register to attend the […]
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.
Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security – Register for January 13th Webinar
January 3rd, 2022 / in Announcements, call for papers, CCC, Security / by Khari DouglasListen to the Catalyzing Computing Podcast, Episode 37 – Evaluating the Research Pipeline with CERP
December 23rd, 2021 / in podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode Khari Douglas interview Dr. Burçin Tamer and Heather Wright, respectively the Director and Associate Director of CRA’s Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP). We discuss CERPs ongoing projects and the benefits of diversity in computing. Watch the interview on Youtube (embedded below) or listen on your preferred podcasting app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | iHeartRadio | Soundcloud.
Tracy Camp Named Computing Research Association Executive Director
December 17th, 2021 / in Announcements, CRA / by Shar SteedWritten by Shar Steed The Computing Research Association (CRA) today announced Dr. Tracy Camp will become the organization’s fourth Executive Director in its 50 year history. Camp, currently the Department Head of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines (Mines), brings to the role strong experience as a leader in the computing research community at the national level, a history spearheading diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in computing, and a detailed vision for leading the organization into the future. She will assume the role on July 1, 2022. As Executive Director, Camp will seek to build upon CRA’s existing leadership role in the computing research community and work to help […]
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
December 16th, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC / by Khari DouglasThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), the CCC provides a voice for the national computing research community, facilitating the development of a bold, multi-themed vision for computing research and communicating that vision to a wide range of stakeholders. To fulfill its mission, the CCC seeks visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work collaboratively to see things through to completion. The Council is composed of 20 […]
Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
December 15th, 2021 / in Announcements, call for papers, CCC / by Khari DouglasThe mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. In accordance with the mission, the CCC is issuing a new call for proposals for visioning activities that will catalyze innovative research at the frontiers of computing. Successful activities will articulate new research visions, galvanize community interest in those visions, mobilize support for those visions from the computing research community, government leaders, and funding agencies, and encourage broader segments of society to participate in computing research and education. This guide shares further insight about the visioning process, from idea conception through program […]
US and UK to Partner on Prize Challenges to Advance Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
December 14th, 2021 / in NSF, Privacy, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterThe US and United Kingdom (UK) will collaborate on a series of innovation prize challenges to catalyze research and advancements related to privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). These technologies give the user greater control over the data being processed to protect personal information and intellectual property. The aim of the prize challenge is to bring together the top minds in both countries to encourage and facilitate the adoption of PETs. As a large problem area and growing concern among scientists, both countries heavily invested in privacy-enhancing technologies over the past decade. PETs are already used to address a number of societal problems from Covid-19 contact tracing to protecting online banking transactions. This […]
