The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the 2025 ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) conference’s Health Day track, and we are thrilled to announce the winners! KDD, now in its 31st year of holding an annual conference, provides a forum for researchers to share and discuss new ideas and applications in the fields of data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, and big data analytics. ACM KDD Health Track 2025 Blue Sky Winners 1st Place RephQA: Evaluating Readability of Large Language Models in Public Health Question Answering Weikang Qiu, Yale University Tinglin Huang, Northeastern University Ryan Rullo, Yale University Yuchen Kuang, Ali Maatouk, […]
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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.
Blue Sky Track Winners at ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day
August 18th, 2025 / in Announcements, Blue Sky / by Catherine GillEnvisioning the Next AI Revolution Beyond Current Paradigms
July 31st, 2025 / in AI, Announcements, CCC-led white papers / by Catherine GillThe world is buzzing about artificial intelligence (AI), driven by the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks, large language models, and other types of foundation models. But what’s next? A new whitepaper, “Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research,” from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) dives into this crucial question, suggesting that the current wave of AI innovation, while powerful, is built on a paradigm that’s already 15 years old. “The current paradigm, while incredibly successful, is not the endpoint,” says David Jensen, one of the paper’s authors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “For AI to continue to progress over the long term, we need researchers to be actively exploring […]
Bridging Recommendations from the NASEM Team Science Report and CRA/CCC Best Practices on Interdisciplinary Computing Research
July 23rd, 2025 / in CCC, CCC-led white papers, Interdisciplinary Research / by Catherine GillCCC is excited to see how our latest best-practice documents on interdisciplinary research for Funders, Researchers, and Organizational Leaders echo—and amplify—the strategic recommendations from the recent National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) report on The Science and Practice of Team Science. Below, we enumerate several recommendations presented in both sets of resources. 1. Seed Funding & Early Stage Support NASEM emphasizes the importance of pilot grants and flexible budgeting for early-stage interdisciplinary work. CRA/CCC’s Best Practices for Funders document mirrors this, recommending dedicated seed-stage funding, travel grants, and support for team-building workshops to kickstart cross-disciplinary collaboration. 2. Structural & Budgetary Flexibility NASEM urges institutions to adapt budgeting, […]
Unleashing Enterprise AI: Key Insights from IBM’s Lisa Amini at CCC’s Computing Futures Symposium
July 18th, 2025 / in AI, CCC, Symposia / by Catherine GillSee the Full Recording of Lisa Amini’s keynote at the CCC’s 2025 Computing Futures Symposium. In May of 2025, the Computing Community Consortium’s Computing Futures Symposium hosted an insightful keynote speech by Lisa Amini, Director of Data & AI Platforms Research, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer. With a background spanning over 25 years at IBM in areas such as Data & AI, stream processing, and distributed systems, Amini offered a comprehensive look at the rapid advancements in agentic and generative AI, and their growing impact on the enterprise. Her address highlighted a critical shift in AI research and development, global innovation trends, and the transformative potential of AI within businesses. […]
CCC Seeks New Director as Mary Lou Maher Concludes Term
July 16th, 2025 / in Announcements, CCC / by Catherine GillMary Lou Maher, CRA’s Director of Research Community Initiatives and leader of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), will be concluding her tenure at CRA at the end of August. We thank Mary Lou for her leadership and contributions to the computing research community during her time at CRA. As the Director of CCC, Mary Lou provided strategic, administrative, and programmatic leadership. During her time in the role, CCC organized more than 20 community events, including two symposia and five visioning workshops, with two additional workshops currently in development. She also oversaw the publication of six visioning workshop reports, three Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Computing Research documents, and eight Quadrennial Papers. […]
Charting the Future: How AI Can Transform Biomedical Discovery and Public Health
July 22nd, 2025 / in AI, CCC / by Catherine GillThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) is embarking on a crucial journey: developing a comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to revolutionize biomedical discovery and public health. The agency released a recent Request for Information to help inform this effort, and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Computing Research Association (CRA) took this opportunity to share some recommendations, drawing from the expertise of the computing community. At its core, our guidance centers on the principle of safe, secure, and effective AI. This isn’t just about deploying cutting-edge technology; it’s about ensuring AI tools are inherently reliable, trustworthy, and ultimately beneficial for patients and researchers. Ethical considerations such as fairness and transparency […]