A Message from CISE Leadership Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, Happy New Year! 2020 certainly brought its share of challenges, and our sympathies are with all of you most directly affected by them. Along the way, 2020 also brought many exciting opportunities and successes for the CISE community. AP CS Principles: For example, the College Board recently reported that the workforce—especially among young women, students of color, and first-generation students—setting them on a path to declaring a CS or STEM major in college. Specifically, the report found that AP CSP students are more likely to declare a major in STEM and more than THREE times as likely (an 11.7 percentage point increase) to declare a major in computer science than similar students who attended high school […]
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.
NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates
January 25th, 2021 / in NSF, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightExpeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2021 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity and enhancing the quality of life for people throughout the world. More than a decade ago, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) established the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to build on past successes and provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. In planning Expeditions projects, investigators are strongly encouraged to come […]
CCC Council Member Melanie Mitchell on if AI can Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight
January 19th, 2021 / in AI, CCC, Healthcare, Research News, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterMelanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University was recently interviewed on the Medscape podcast, Medicine and the Machine in an episode titled ‘Can AI Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight?. The podcast, led by Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese from Stanford, explores critical questions and discussions on artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on modern medicine. While it was acknowledged that AI has made great strides in the past decade on accomplishing narrow tasks, the episode highlights that the technology still lacks the ability to work autonomously in the field of medicine. Making this a possibility would require […]
Biden Names Science Team; Eric Lander as Science Advisor; Elevates Position to Cabinet-level
January 15th, 2021 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog post by the Computing Research Association (CRA) Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha. It was originally posted on CRA’s Computing Research Policy Blog. President-elect Joe Biden announced today he intends to nominate Dr. Eric Lander, biologist and former leader of the Human Genome Project, to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and serve as the Presidential Science Advisor. Biden also announced that he was designating the Presidential Science Advisor a cabinet level position for the first time in history, illustrating the importance the new administration will place on the guidance of science in policymaking. Also named today as Deputy Director of OSTP is Dr. Alondra Nelson, who is […]
Former CCC Council Member Maja Matarić Named A 2020 ACM Fellow
January 15th, 2021 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently named 95 of its members as the new ACM Fellows for 2020. One of the newly named members is former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Maja Matarić, University of Southern California, for her “contributions to socially assistive robotics and human-robot systems.” Matarić was a key contributor to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, which was released in August 2019. Several other individuals involved with the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Research Association – Widening Participation (CRA-WP) have been named Fellows. See the CRA Bulletin for the full list. Additional information about the […]
Call for Papers – 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems Automation and Applications (QC-CSAA)
January 14th, 2021 / in call for papers / by Khari DouglasDrs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers to participate in the upcoming 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems Automation and Applications (QC-CSAA). The workshop is taking place July 7-9, 2021 in Tampa, Florida in conjunction with the ISVLSI 2021. The 2021 ISVLSI Symposium “explores emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts covering a broad range of topics in the area of VLSI: from VLSI circuits, systems and design methods, to system level design issues, to bringing VLSI design to new areas and technologies such as nano- and molecular devices, security, artificial intelligence, and Internet-of-Things, etc. Future […]
