Rika Antonova began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in December 2020. Antonova is at Stanford University working with Jeannette Bohg, Assistant Professor of Robotics at Stanford. Current Project Machine learning is transforming robotics: we can now solve high-dimensional problems that have been intractable before, if given large amounts of data and ample training time. However, to go beyond structured factory settings, it is important for robots to adapt to changes in the environment/task without lengthy re-training and data collection. A related problem is closing the simulation-to-reality gap: adapting to the real world after training in simulation. My goal […]
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.
Active Learning of Transferable Priors, Kernels and Latent Representations for Robotics
May 26th, 2021 / in CCC, CIFellows, CIFellows Spotlight, research horizons, robotics / by Maddy HunterNSF CISE Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary
May 25th, 2021 / in Announcements, computer history, NSF / by Khari DouglasThis month marks the 35th anniversary of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. CISE was founded on May 1, 1986, and it continues to support “investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computer and information science and engineering,” including the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), which CISE funds through a cooperative agreement with the Computing Research Association. Highlighted in their May newsletter, “One of CISE’s key early investments in information technology was the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI). This initiative provided global, multilingual repositories of data, knowledge, sound, and images. Through the DLI, NSF supported a project that would ultimately result in the creation of Google.” The National […]
CRA Executive Director Andrew Bernat Announces Retirement
May 24th, 2021 / in Announcements / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sad to announce the retirement of CRA Executive Director Andrew Bernat. Bernat was instrumental in the development of the CCC — in October 2006, CRA responded to an NSF solicitation to establish a Computing Community Consortium. Bernat, working along with Daniel A Reed, Susan L Graham, Anita K Jones, and Edward D Lazowska submitted a proposal that was backed by explicit letters of support from 132 Ph.D.-granting academic programs, 16 leading corporations, 7 major national laboratories and research centers, and five professional societies in the field. Since then, with Bernat working as an Ex-Officio member of the CCC’s Executive Committee, the CCC has grown into […]
Blue Sky at AAMAS 2021
May 20th, 2021 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 3-7th, 2021, online. The emphasis of this special track was on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. It served as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative ideas, and aimed to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by result-oriented standards. Best Paper Award: Diverse Auto-Curriculum is Critical for Successful Real-World Multiagent Learning Systems Yaodong Yang, University College London Jun Luo, Huawei Canada Ying Wen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Oliver Slumbers, University College London Daniel Graves, Huawei Canada Haitham Bou Ammar, Huawei R&D […]
CCC Announces New Council Members Starting July 2021
May 18th, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Sven Koenig, University of Southern California Chandra Krintz, University of California, Santa Barbara William Regli, University of Maryland Mona Singh, Princeton University Ufuk Topcu, University of Texas at Austin Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms. The CCC Council is comprised of 20 members who have expertise in diverse areas of computing. They are instrumental in leading CCC’s visioning programs, which help catalyze and enable ideas for future computing research. Members serve staggered three-year terms that rotate every July. The CCC […]
Upcoming NSF CISE Deadlines
May 17th, 2021 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out! Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 14, 2021 The Broadening Participation in Computing Program (BPC) aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post-secondary degrees in the computing disciplines and to encourage the participation of other underrepresented groups in the discipline. It seeks to engage the computing community to develop and implement innovative methods, frameworks, and strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of these students through undergraduate and graduate degrees. Projects that target stages of the academic pipeline through faculty ranks are encouraged. […]
