Proposals for Phase I and Phase II of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering’s (CISE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program are due December 2nd, 2021. The NSF SBIR/STTR programs focus on transitioning scientific research with commercial potential or societal benefits out of the lab and onto the market. This program provides funding and entrepreneurial support at the earliest stages of technology and company development to strengthen the national economy, stimulate the creation of breakthrough technologies and products and provide resources to small businesses. One of the main differences between the SBIR and STTR programs is the STTR […]
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.
Upcoming NSF CISE Proposal Deadlines: Small Businesses
November 2nd, 2021 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThird National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force Meeting and CCC Response to the NAIRR Implementation Plan
November 1st, 2021 / in Announcements, big science, Blue Sky, CCC, NSF, research horizons, Research News, robotics / by Helen WrightThe National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force convened its third virtual public meeting to further develop a vision and implementation plan for the NAIRR. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago), was invited to speak about the recently published A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness in the New Era of 21st Century Digital Transformation white paper. In addition, 84 responses from industry, academia, and government stakeholders were recently released regarding the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation request for information to develop an implementation roadmap for the NAIRR. […]
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture – From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World
October 28th, 2021 / in AI, NSF / by Maddy HunterDr. Fei-Fei Li, of Stanford University, is presenting a lecture titled “From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World” as a part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series. Li’s lecture will be on November 4th, 2021 from 12-1:30pm EDT. Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University where she leads Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute as the Co-Director and served as the Director of the AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. She obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton University and her PhD in electrical engineering from […]
The Decade of Digital Inclusion
October 27th, 2021 / in Announcements, awards, CCC, Research News, resources / by Helen WrightSignificant contributions to this post were provided by CCC Senior Program Associate, Khari Douglas. The Marconi Society, a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to bridging the digital divide, held a virtual symposium on Friday, October 22nd, to celebrate the newest Marconi Fellow Andrea Goldsmith. Friday’s symposium was really a call to action for the computing, and specifically networking, community. The three keynote speakers Doreen Bogdan-Martin (International Telecommunications Union), Jessica Rosenworcel (Federal Communications Commission), and Andrea Goldsmith (Princeton University) all made the case for the urgent, pressing need for expanding access to connectivity. In her keynote, Bogdan-Martin stated that 3.7 billion people still have no online connectivity, which is […]
Blue Sky at ICMI 2021
October 26th, 2021 / in Blue Sky, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), October 18-22nd, 2021. The emphasis of this special track was on innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. ICMI looked for submissions that went beyond the usual research paper to present new visions to stimulate the community to pursue innovative new directions. First place: Sandy Pentland (MIT), “Optimized Human-A.I. Group Decision Making: A Personal View” Second place: Georgios Rizos (Imperial College London), “Towards Sonification in Multimodal and User-Friendly Explainable Artificial Intelligence” Third place: Philippe Palanque (Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse), “Dependability and Safety: Two Clouds in the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction” CCC provides […]
Dear Colleague Letter Webinar – CAS: Innovative Solutions to Climate Change
October 25th, 2021 / in Announcements, NSF / by Khari DouglasThe National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a joint Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) calling for “the science and engineering communities to develop forward-thinking research that will demonstrably aid in the Nation’s goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and developing approaches for adapting to the change that is already occurring.” “This DCL encourages the submission of conference (workshop), GOALI, or standard research proposals to appropriate existing NSF core programs to lay the foundation for disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on innovative solutions to climate change.” NSF will hold a webinar about this DCL on Thursday, October 28th from 4 – 5 PM ET. Learn more and register to attend on […]
