The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 120 new members- including a record number of women- and 30 foreign members. Five computing researchers are among those elected this year. They include Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal), Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania), Anna Karlin (University of Washington), Yann LeCun (New York University), and Linda Petzold (University of California, Santa Barbara). Michael Kearns has participated in many Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshops including Theoretical Foundations for Social Computing in 2015 and Fair Representations and Fair Interactive Learning in 2018. Anna Karlin is a former CRA-Widening Participation (CRA-EP) Board Member. She has been active in several CRA-WP activities including Grad Cohort, Virtual […]
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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.
National Academy of Sciences Elects 120 Members and 30 International Members!
May 4th, 2021 / in Announcements, awards / by Helen WrightCIFellows Spotlight – Machine Learning for Machine Learning
May 3rd, 2021 / in AI, CCC, CIFellows, CIFellows Spotlight, CRA, research horizons / by Maddy HunterBiresh Kumar Joardar began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD from Washington State University in Summer of 2020. Joardar is at Duke University working with Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Current Project The theme of my current project is “Machine Learning for Machine Learning”. The project aims to demonstrate the symbiotic relationship between machine learning (ML) algorithms and computer system design. In this new paradigm, hardware researchers benefit from new data-driven ML algorithms and ML researchers benefit from efficient computing enabled by new hardware-software co-design. More specifically, I work on designing heterogeneous manycore and in-memory computing architectures with […]
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Program Solicitation Webinar
April 30th, 2021 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is hosting a webinar on the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program solicitation (NSF 21-571) on May 4, 2021 starting at 2:00 pm Eastern Time. The webinar will take place via Zoom. It will include a briefing on the 2021 BPC program and key solicitation requirements, followed by a question-and-answer session. Prior to the webinar, you can submit questions to cise-bpc@nsf.gov. Click here to register in advance for this webinar. After registering, a confirmation email will be sent containing information about how to join the webinar. Participants will be able to join in listen-only mode and […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast, Episode 34 – Health Informatics with Katie Siek (Part 2)
April 26th, 2021 / in Healthcare, podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of Catalyzing Computing, the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, is now available. This episode is part two of Khari Douglas‘ (CCC Senior Program Associate) interview with Dr. Katie Siek, a professor in Informatics and the Chair of Informatics at Indiana University – Bloomington. Dr. Siek is interested in integrating pervasive technologies in health and wellness environments to study how technology affects interventions. Her research interests include human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and health informatics. In this episode, Katie discusses health disparities and how computing technologies can play a role in their reduction, as well as the challenges to doing health informatics research in the field. Listen to […]
Pandemic Informatics: Variants of Concern (VOC)
April 22nd, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, CCC-led white papers, COVID, Quad Paper, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightContributions to this post were provided by Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder), Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia), Melanie Moses (The University of New Mexico), William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University). We are pleased to announce the second addendum to the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness, and Resilience quadrennial paper on variants of concern (VOC). A year ago, few experts correctly predicted the toll the pandemic has now taken, nor the extraordinarily rapid development and administration of effective vaccines. Scientists have dramatically increased understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, treatment, and vaccines. Yet, where the pandemic will […]
CIFellows 2021 Application Now Open
April 21st, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, CIFellows, CRA / by Maddy HunterThe CIFellows 2021 application site is now open. Applicants may start their applications here. Please read the CIFellows 2021 website and FAQs in its entirety before submitting. Applicants must submit the following for registration by midnight May 10th 2021 AoE (Anywhere on Earth): Title – title of proposed research project. If you are applying twice with the same project, please use the same title but follow it with A on the first application and B on the second. Application information – items will include diversity information; the PhD (university, advisor, date of defense); current professional information (university, current position, advisor); and CIFellowship information (Mentor name and email address, host institution, […]
