The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at The Ninth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), November 14-18, 2021. FIRST- The Science of Rejection: A Research Area for Human Computation (video) Burcu Sayin, Jie Yang, Andrea Passerini and Fabio Casati SECOND – Human Computation and Crowdsourcing for Earth (video) Yasaman Rohanifar, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana, Prateek Chanda and Malay Bhattacharyya THIRD – Human in the Loop for Machine Creativity (video) Neo Christopher Chung CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference! Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee […]

This past spring, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and its Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced funding for a cohort of Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) for 2021, with strong support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The program sponsors two-year postdoctoral research positions in computing, as well as career development and cohort building activities, to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent Ph.D. graduates. The program aims to address the continued disruption in hiring practices at academic institutions due to COVID-19. This effort was inspired by the CRA/CCC’s NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellows Programs with cohorts starting 2009, 2010, and 2011, CRA’s Best Practices Memo on Computer Science Postdocs, and the Computing […]

Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Sujata Banerjee (VMware) and William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) are joining the CCC Executive team of Nadya Bliss (Arizona State), Chair Liz Bradley (University of Colorado-Boulder), and Vice Chair Dan Lopresti (Lehigh University).  The CCC also welcomes five new council members, nominated by colleagues in the computing research community, who begin their three-year terms today: 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 The CCC […]

The 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 […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper,  A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness in the New Era of 21st Century Digital Transformation, led by Ian Foster with significant support from Daniel Lopresti, Bill Gropp, Mark D. Hill, and Katie Schuman. The three “pillars,” as the paper calls them, of this new computation fabric include the “emergence of public cloud utilities as a new computing platform; the ability to extract information from enormous quantities of data via machine learning; and the emergence of computational simulation as a research method on par with experimental science.”  In order for the […]

Last week the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2021. This program recognizes the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the pandemic and associated economic uncertainty and aims to help ensure continuity of the research pipeline through disruptions related to COVID-19.  Awards will support an individual for 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow (“CIFellow”) at a host institution of their choosing. CRA will issue subawards to the Host Institution to cover an annual postdoc salary of $75,000, plus fringe and indirect costs (capped at 35%). CIFellows will have the ability to select a Fall 2021 or […]