Significant 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 […]
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.
The Decade of Digital Inclusion
October 27th, 2021 / in Announcements, awards, CCC, Research News, resources / by Helen WrightBlue 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 […]
CCC / ACM SIGAI / INFORMS Workshop 1 Report Out – Artificial Intelligence & Operations Research
October 22nd, 2021 / in AI, CCC, research horizons, Research News, workshop reports / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and ACM SIGAI sponsored a virtual workshop, entitled Artificial Intelligence / Operations Research Workshop to provide a space for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) to discuss a joint strategic vision for a strong and sustained collaboration between the two fields. Organized by Sanmay Das (George Mason University), John Dickerson (University of Maryland), Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Tech), Sven Koenig (University of Southern California), Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University), Radhika Kulkarni (SAS Institute, Inc. – retired), Phebe Vayanos (University of Southern California) the workshop was held on September 24th – 25th, 2021. There […]
Second Report from the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
October 20th, 2021 / in AI, Announcements / by Helen WrightThe One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) has released their second report, following their first report in 2016. Five years later, a lot more has been written in the computing research community about the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on society. This study, however, remains unique. It is written by a Study Panel of core multi-disciplinary researchers in the field. The authors are firmly rooted within the field of AI and provide an “insider’s” perspective. Second, it is a longitudinal study, with reports by such Study Panels planned once every five years, for at least one hundred years. Quoting from their announcement: Whereas the first […]
National Strategic Computing Reserve: A Blueprint
October 18th, 2021 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a recent message to the community from Lynne E. Parker, Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office and Assistant Director of Artificial Intelligence at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Dear Colleagues, I’m happy to report that OSTP released a blueprint for a National Strategic Computing Reserve. This concept is modeled after the highly successful COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which advanced COVID-19 research during the early days of the pandemic. Report direct link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/National-Strategic-Computing-Reserve-Blueprint-Oct2021.pdf NSTC site which includes the new report: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/nstc/ OSTP tweet link: https://twitter.com/WHOSTP/status/1445440967264321536 Feel free to share the news with your interested colleagues. Best regards, Lynne
