Recently, the White House posted a Request for Information (RFI) inviting suggestions for improvements to Federal data and models needed to accelerate AI R&D and testing. See below for more details. Your responses, and/or those of your organization, would be valuable and much appreciated. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2019 Trump Administration Takes Action to Improve Federal Data and Models for Artificial Intelligence R&D Recently, the Trump Administration continued efforts to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) with the announcement of a Request for Information (RFI) to improve Federal data and models for AI research and development (R&D) and testing. As called for by President Trump’s national AI strategy […]

Contributions to this post were provided by Monica Lam and Jen King from Stanford University.  The New York Times recently published an article titled Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative. Professor Monica Lam and her students, Giovanni Campagna, Silei Xu, Michael Fischer, and Mehrad Moradshahi, have developed a virtual assistant called Almond that can avoid surrendering personal information to a centralized service and encourage open competition among companies. She is joined by Stanford computer science researchers Michael Bernstein, Dan Boneh,  Jen King, James Landay, Chris Manning, and David Mazières, Chris Re in a newly funded NSF research grant to expand the capabilities and privacy protection […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with Schmidt Futures, will sponsor and administer a white paper competition on the future of “CS for Social Good,” in order to harness CS to address societal challenges such as: Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy; Reducing the inter-generational transmission of poverty; Feeding 10 billion people while reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture; Reducing the time and cost for a low-income worker to gain a skill that is a ticket to the middle class; Using data to support evidence-based policy while protecting privacy and security; Reducing health care costs while maintaining or improving health outcomes; and Improving K-12 student learning outcomes in core academic subjects […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with Schmidt Futures, will sponsor and administer a white paper competition on the future of “CS for Social Good,” in order to harness CS to address societal challenges such as: Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy; Reducing the inter-generational transmission of poverty; Feeding 10 billion people while reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture; Reducing the time and cost for a low-income worker to gain a skill that is a ticket to the middle class; Using data to support evidence-based policy while protecting privacy and security; Reducing health care costs while maintaining or improving health outcomes; and Improving K-12 student learning outcomes in core academic subjects […]

CCC Chair Mark D. Hill, CCC Vice Chair Liz Bradley, and CCC Director Ann Schwartz Drobnis provided significant contributions to this post. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) requests comments by May 28, 2019 on a draft of A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US. Please see links and logistics at the end of this blog post.   This draft arises from a community process that has already involved more than one hundred AI professionals. In Fall 2018, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) started an initiative to create a Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence to be led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and President of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University and President Elect of […]

Part 2 of the Catalyzing Computing podcast interview with Dr. Beth Mynatt is out now. Dr. Mynatt is the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), a College of Computing Distinguished Professor, and the Director of the Everyday Computing Lab. In this episode Dr. Mynatt discusses the concept of digital self-harm, Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” and the history of the CCC. Stream in the embedded player below or find the podcast on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play |Youtube. If you listen to the podcast, please take a moment to complete this listener survey – this survey will help us learn more about you and better tailor the show to the interests of […]