The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a congressionally-chartered committee charged with reviewing AI and related technologies and making recommendations to address U.S. national security and defense needs, today released its final report, endorsing significant new investments in AI research, strategies for building the AI workforce, and guidance for using AI in warfare while upholding U.S. democratic values. The report is likely to inform policy activity around defense-related AI issues in Congress and at the Department of Defense over the next months and years. Computing Research Association (CRA) Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha and Nadya T. Bliss, Executive Director of ASU’s Global Security Institute and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive […]
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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.
Artificial Intelligence is Critical to National Security, Defense, U.S. Economy, and Worthy of Significant New Investment, Congressionally-chartered Commission Argues in Final Report
March 1st, 2021 / in AI, Announcements / by Helen WrightFree Virtual Workshop on Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness: Current Contexts, Potential Paths
February 25th, 2021 / in AI, Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightOn March 3-4 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will convene “Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness: Current Contexts, Potential Paths,” a public workshop sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help think through this interrelated set of challenges. This workshop will work to produce initial ideas for activities and collaborations by academia, industry, and the public sector to improve the assessment of trustworthiness of AI systems, and recommendations for NIST and similar public bodies. The notion of AI trustworthiness, comprising a wide array of attributes such as robustness, accuracy, fairness, explainability, and privacy, presents a complicated set […]
CCC Exec Council Member Nadya Bliss on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
February 24th, 2021 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, Privacy, research horizons, Research News, robotics, Security, workshop reports / by Helen WrightContributions to this post were provided by CCC Vice Chair Daniel Lopresti. AI for Good Global Summit hosted a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour today and featured Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss (Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University) as well as Alice Eckstein (Programme Manager, Modern Slavery Programme at United Nations University – Centre for Policy Research), Doreen Boyd (Professor of Earth Observation, Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Nottingham), James Goulding (Deputy Director N/LAB, Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Nottingham) and Anjali Mazumder (Thematic Lead on AI, Justice […]
Cloud Access for NSF CISE Research
February 23rd, 2021 / in Announcements, NSF, policy, research horizons, Research News, robotics / by Helen WrightAn increasing number of National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) solicitations, including the CISE Core Programs (for which SMALL Projects do not have a submission deadline), are eligible for cloud access via the CloudBank portal to the AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM clouds. These clouds offer enormous capacity and rich software stacks. Another plus: access through CloudBank is not subject to indirect cost. For further information: An AWS Public Sector Blog post by Deep Medhi (NSF) and Sanjay Padhi (AWS): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/simplifying-access-cloud-resources-researchers-cloudbank/ A webinar featuring Deep Medhi, Sanjay Padhi, and Mike Norman (UCSD; PI of NSF’s CloudBank effort): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdhxFOrIcM&feature=youtu.be CloudBank: https://www.cloudbank.org/ July 2018 workshop report “Enabling […]
Great Innovative Idea: Using Computer Modeling to Effectively Prioritize and Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine
February 22nd, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, Great Innovative Idea, Research News / by Maddy HunterThe following Great Innovative Idea is from Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department and the BioFrontier Institute, where he leads Larremore Lab. In addition, he holds affiliations with the Department of Applied Mathematics and with the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His recent work with COVID-19 has captured the attention of large media sources such as Medscape, the Washington Examiner and the New York Times. The Idea How does the progression of a typical SARS-CoV-2 infection affect the way we should think about COVID-19 policies, like testing and vaccine prioritization? When doing mathematical and computational […]
“Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Computing Community” Panel on March 3rd
February 18th, 2021 / in Announcements, conferences, CRA, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightComputing Research Association (CRA) Board Member Timothy M. Pinkston will be moderating a panel on “Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Computing Community” at this year’s co-located HPCA’21, PPoPP’21, CGO’21, and CC’21 conferences from 1:30 to 3 PM (EST) on March 3rd. Panel Abstract: There is a movement occurring broadly across many scientific and engineering fields, including widely within our computing community, toward making tangible progress through intentional actions and interventions for advancing and valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion. There is also a movement toward dismantling structural and/or systemic factors—especially but not limited to racial and gender biases—that may be standing in the way of making much needed progress in advancing and valuing diversity, […]
