First announced at President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, the U.S./U.K. privacy-enhancing technologies prize challenges, are now open for registration. Co-sponsored by the National Institute for Standards and Technology and the National Science Foundation, and planned in coordination with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and counterparts in the United Kingdom, the prize challenges seek to catalyze research to bring about solutions to financial crime and public health emergencies. Solutions to pressing global issues such as preventing financial cybercrime and enhancing pandemic response capabilities requires vast amount of high quality data. Privacy-enhancing technologies will enable the cultivation and analysis of large datasets without jeopardizing a citizens’ fundamental right […]
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.
U.S./U.K. Launch PETs Innovation Prize Challenges
July 27th, 2022 / in Announcements, Privacy, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterAlan T. Waterman Award Call for Nominations
July 25th, 2022 / in awards, NSF / by Maddy HunterThe Alan T. Waterman is the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Highest Honor. The award recognizes an outstanding early career researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the NSF. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 to use over a five-year period for scientific research or advanced study in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, social, or other sciences at the institution of the recipient’s choice. Congress established the award in August 1975 to mark NSF’s 25th anniversary and honor the agency’s first director. NSF is seeking nominations for exceptional candidates that represent the diversity of the U.S. Nominations for the 2023 Alan […]
NSTC Releases Report on Lessons Learned from Federal Use of Cloud Computing to Support AI Research and Development
July 18th, 2022 / in Announcements / by Maddy HunterArtificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has made huge strides in the past decade. A large part of this progress can be attributed to large quantities of accessible datasets and computing resources. Recently many federal agencies have started to invest in leveraging commercial cloud computing resources to advance AI/ML research and development (R&D). The White House’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and AI Subcommittee just released a report on Lessons Learned from Federal Use of Cloud Computing to Support AI Research and Development summarizing lessons learned from Federal agencies on the use of cloud computing to further AI R&D. The report came about from another Federal Government’s Select Committee […]
CIFellows Research Poster Session
July 14th, 2022 / in CIFellows, NITRD / by Maddy HunterOn May 25, 2022, the CIFellows were given the opportunity to present their research to the community during a poster session at the NITRD 30th Anniversary Symposium. The poster session was a great way to celebrate early career researchers and demonstrate the impact of federal investments in computing research. Backed by funding from the National Science Foundation, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced a Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020 and 2021. This program recognized the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic uncertainty and aimed to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for new PhD graduates in computing. The CIFellows were invited to […]
Blue Sky at HT’22
July 11th, 2022 / in Blue Sky / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22), June 28 – July 1st, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Congratulations to the winning papers! FIRST – The Web At War: Hypertext, Social Media, and Totalitarianism Mark Bernstein SECOND – From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking Ronen Tamari, Daniel Friedman, William Fischer, Lauren Hebert, and Dafna Shahaf THIRD – Weaponising Social Media for Information Divide and Warfare Ehsan Ul Haq, Gareth Tyson, Tristan Braud, and Pan Hui CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply […]
White House Releases National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems
July 7th, 2022 / in Announcements / by Maddy HunterQuantum Information Science (QIS) offers a new world of computational capabilities beyond the reach of today’s classical computing. At the same time, QIS threatens the cryptographic algorithms upon which modern digital security and privacy is built. The White House recently released the “National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems”, or NSM-10. The memorandum represents the Biden Administration’s plan to maintain the Nation’s competitive advantage in QIS without jeopardizing national security. The memorandum is split into four sections, each outlining specific steps towards achieving this balance. Sec 1. Policy Section 1 outlines the overarching policies of the administration: “(1) to […]
