As technology advances and becomes an increasingly ubiquitous aspect of everyday life, researchers and the world at large must consider ways to minimize negative effects caused by computing to ensure sustainable development. A large area of concern is environmental impacts, including computing’s contributions to climate change. The Computing Community Consortium has been supporting research in this area in a multitude of ways including a white paper Computing Research for the Climate Crisis and the creation of the Computing and Challenges to Humanity: Climate task force which focuses on climate change/sustainable computing. Recently, Assistant Director for the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate, Margaret Martonosi, released […]
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 DCL: Design for Sustainability in Computing
March 16th, 2022 / in NSF, research horizons / by Maddy HunterNew Dental Tool can Detect Conditions Leading to Cavities
March 14th, 2022 / in research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterShwetak Patel, former CCC Council member and Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, was recently featured in ScienceDaily for his work on a new prototype that can spot acidic conditions that lead to cavities. Identifying areas of plaque with high acidity can show dentists which teeth on a patient are at the highest risk of developing cavities. “Plaque has a lot of bacteria that produce acid when they interact with the sugar in our food,” said Manuja Sharma, lead author and a doctoral student in the UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “This acid is what causes the […]
NSF CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop 2022
March 9th, 2022 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterThe National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) will hold a virtual CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop on Zoom April 4-5, 2022. Register here. The rest of this post is from NSF CISE Career Workshop webpage. This event will introduce junior faculty to the NSF CAREER program, and help them prepare their CAREER proposal. The NSF CAREER program serves a critical role in the National Science Foundation’s efforts to identify, foster and support the nation’s most promising junior faculty in both research and education. Junior professors who are just starting their careers often have limited experience with grant writing and evaluation. They also have little or no interaction […]
Katherine Yelick Receives the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award
March 7th, 2022 / in awards, CCC, CRA / by Maddy HunterBy Shar Steed originally posted on the CRA Bulletin. The Computing Research Association (CRA) today announced it has selected Katherine Yelick, former CCC council member and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, as the recipient of the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding and sustained service contributions to the computing research community. Yelick has earned the reputation of the “go-to” person for advice to the government and the agencies within it, and to institutions of higher education on all aspects of advanced computing. She is respected for her sound judgment, her broad knowledge of computing research, and her […]
Blue Sky at AAAI-2022
March 3rd, 2022 / in awards, Blue Sky / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 22-March 1, 2022. Congratulations to the winning papers! FIRST- Local Justice and the Algorithmic Allocation of Scarce Societal Resources Sanmay Das SECOND – Training on the Test Set: Mapping the System-Problem Space in AI Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Wout Schellaert, and Fernando Martínez-Plumed THIRD – Market Design for Drone Traffic Management Sven Seuken, Paul Friedrich, and Ludwig Dierks CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference! Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program […]
Congratulations to New Members of the National Academy of Engineering
March 1st, 2022 / in Announcements, awards / by Maddy HunterBy Shar Steed, originally posted on the CRA Bulletin Recently the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced it has elected 111 members and 22 international members. Several individuals involved with CCC were among those elected: Klara Nahrstedt, Grainger Distinguished Chair, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Former CCC Council and Executive Committee Member For contributions to managing quality of service in distributed multimedia systems and networks. Manuela M. Veloso, head, Artificial Intelligence Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York City. Former CCC Council Member and CRA-W Board Member For contributions to machine learning and its applications in robotics and the financial services industry. Election to the National Academy […]
