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 […]

CCC is pleased to announce we are sponsoring another Blue Sky Ideas track at the ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day conference on August 5 in Toronto, Canada, and submissions are open until Friday, June 27. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see the submission details below or check out the conference website for more information.   Call for Papers: ACM SIGKDD 2025 Health Day Blue Sky Ideas Track Event: KDD 2025 Health Day Track: Blue Sky Ideas Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Location: Toronto, Canada Website: https://kdd2025.kdd.org/special-days/ Aims and Scope The Blue Sky Ideas Track at KDD 2025 Health Day seeks bold, visionary contributions at the frontier […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs-Research), David Gibbon (AT&T Labs-Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research), Valerie Yip (AT&T Labs-Research), and Eric Zavesky (AT&T Labs-Research). The team’s paper, Smartmedia: Locally & Contextually-Adapted Streaming Media, won first-place in the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at the 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems.  The Idea Streaming media is gaining popularity, with numerous new services for video on demand and live broadcast. Often, streaming media is consumed on mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets, in different locations and contexts. In the novel approach we present, named Smartmedia, the streamed content […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Meeting (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). Summary: SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. There are two subtracks for submissions of talk proposals for the AAAI 2020 Senior Members Track (SMPT): the summary talk – broad talks on a well-developed body of research […]

The 18th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR ‘17) has released a call for papers. ISRR ‘17, will take place December 11-14 in Puerto Varas, Chile. The symposium is seeking papers that offer new ideas and directions for the field of robotics. The program will comprise a combination of invited talks and open submissions organized into interactive panels, keynotes, and debates. Accepted papers will be organized into topical panels, and the panel moderators will work with the authors of accepted papers to coordinate the presentations and maximize the interactivity of the session.   The papers and panel discussions will be edited into a proceedings volume after the workshop, and will […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, October 31- November 3, 2016 in San Francisco, California. The purpose was to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The goal of this track was to present visionary ideas at the conference. 1) First Place- Autonomous car and ride sharing: flexible road trains Niels Agatz, Erasmus University Rotterdam Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Ronny Kutadinata, The University of Melbourne Dirk Christian Mattfeld, […]