By Shar Steed, originally posted on the CRA Bulletin Recently the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced it has elected 111 members and 22 international members. Several individuals involved with CCC were among those elected: Klara Nahrstedt, Grainger Distinguished Chair, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Former CCC Council and Executive Committee Member For contributions to managing quality of service in distributed multimedia systems and networks.  Manuela M. Veloso, head, Artificial Intelligence Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York City. Former CCC Council Member and CRA-W Board Member For contributions to machine learning and its applications in robotics and the financial services industry. Election to the National Academy […]

Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor of Computer Science &  Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Shwetak Patel, was just anointed to the Georgia Tech College of Computing’s Hall of Fame and Business Insider’s list of “30 leaders under 40” who are changing healthcare. He is being recognized for a broad scope of work ranging from home energy monitoring (Zensi) to a mobile health company (Senosis Health). Along with being a professor and head of Ubicomp Lab, Patel holds the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professorship; is the Director of health technologies at Google Health and FitBit Research; was the recipient of […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), October 26-30, 2019, in Auckland, New Zealand. The purpose of this conference was to presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. The goal of this track was to solicit visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities for the Semantic Web that are outside of the current topics in the field and are not mature or specific enough to be accepted in the regular research track. Awardees Konstantin Todorov “Datasets First! A Bottom-up Data Linking Paradigm“ Mayank Kejriwal and Pedro Szekely “Co-LOD: Continuous Space Linked Open […]

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) has named materials scientist Jennifer Dionne and computer scientist Mark Braverman the recipients of this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award. The Waterman Award annually recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by NSF. Researchers 40 years of age or younger, or up to 10 years post Ph.D., are eligible. This year, two outstanding researchers are recognized. Mark Braverman is a Professor of Computer Science from Princeton University. He studies complexity theory, algorithms and the limits of what’s possible computationally. Braverman’s research focuses on complexity, including looking at algorithms for optimization, which, when applied, might mean planning a route — how […]

The White House has released the list awardees of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE awards were established by President Clinton in 1996 and are coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Featuring 102 scientists and researchers, the list of recipients spans across government agencies, from the Department of Commerce to the National Science Foundation (NSF), and celebrate their pursuit of innovative research in science and technology and commitment to community service. Of the accomplished awardees there a number applying their computing backgrounds to related research in government agencies. Some highlights are: Emily Fox, University of Washington, “for her groundbreaking work […]