The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas track at the upcoming international conference SEMANTiCS, taking place September 15-17, 2026 in Ghent, Belgium. We hope to award several winners with a travel grant to showcase their visions for the future of semantic web and knowledge graph research.   Call for Papers: SEMANTiCS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track   Event: SEMANTiCS 2026   Track: Blue Sky Ideas   Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 – Thursday, September 17, 2026   Location: Ghent, Belgium   Website: https://2026-eu.semantics.cc/   Aims and Scope   The Blue Sky Ideas Track at SEMANTiCS 2026 seeks visionary ideas addressing long-term challenges and […]

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 ACM Hypertext Blue Sky Ideas Track, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)! ACM HT, first held in 1987, two years before the invention of the World Wide Web, showcases high quality, peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems, and applications. In the early years of the conference, researchers focused on key pre-Web hypertext software, including Apple Macintosh’s HyperCard and Eastgate Systems’ Storyspace. Now in its 35th year of holding an annual conference, ACM HT has evolved significantly to focus on new applications of hypermedia brought on by the advent of the internet. ACM Hypertext 2025 Blue Sky Winners 1st Place From […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the 2025 ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) conference’s Health Day track, and we are thrilled to announce the winners! KDD, now in its 31st year of holding an annual conference, provides a forum for researchers to share and discuss new ideas and applications in the fields of data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, and big data analytics.  ACM KDD Health Track 2025 Blue Sky Winners 1st Place RephQA: Evaluating Readability of Large Language Models in Public Health Question Answering Weikang Qiu, Yale University Tinglin Huang, Northeastern University Ryan Rullo, Yale University Yuchen Kuang,  Ali Maatouk, […]

The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. The conference was held in Seattle, Washington on on November 1st-4th, 2022. 1st Place: “Causal Inference for Interpretable and Robust Machine Learning in Mobility Analysis” by Yanan Xin (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich), Natasa Tagasovska (Prescient Design, Genentech | Roche), Fernando Perez-Cruz (Swiss Data Science Center) and Martin Raubal (Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zürich) 2nd Place: “Geospatial Accessibility and Inclusion by Combining Contextual Filters, the Metaverse and Ambient Intelligence” by Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs – Research), Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T) and Divesh Srivastava (AT&T). 3rd Place: “Electric Vehicle […]

The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the ICMI 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. The conference was held in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India on on November 7-11th. 1st Place: “On the Horizon: Interactive and Compositional Deepfakes” by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft. 2nd Place: “Beyond the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction: A Centennial Vision of Interplanetary Virtual Spaces in Turn-based Metaverse” by Lik Hang Lee (KAIST), Carlos Bermejo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ahmad Alhilal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Tristan Braud (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Simo Hosio (University of Oulu), Esmée de Haas, and Pan Hui Hong Kong University of Science […]

Last month at CRA’s Conference at Snowbird the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) led an after-dinner brainstorming session, “Reboot!” to help members of the community engage in a visioning discussion. Led by Sujata Banerjee, Nadya Bliss, Liz Bradley, Bill Gropp, Dan Lopresti and Ann Schwartz, the session featured a series of discussions and idea sharing among the community pertaining to two topics chosen to inspire a lively discussion and to get people thinking outside of their areas – Neural Programming and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Customized to Human Norms. You can read the full description of each topic here. Participants were asked to find a partner and discuss a series of questions. […]