The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 14th annual iConference, March 31- April 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. This special track for 2019 sought ideas and visions that stimulate the iSchool research community to pursue new directions. It was organized by Kevin Crowston from Syracuse University and John Leslie King from the University of Michigan. 1) Disrupting the Coming Robot Stampedes: Designing Resilient Information Ecologies Philip Gregory Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and ASRC Federal; Aaron Dant, ASRC Federal; Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2) Troubled Worlds: Bringing Bodies and the Environment into  Computing Research, Practice, and Pedagogy Megan Finn, University of […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 6- November 9, 2018 in Seattle, WA. 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. First Place- Understanding the Human Brain Via its Spatio-temporal Properties Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago) Second Place- Geofences in the Sky: Herding Drones with Blockchains and 5G Tamraparni Dasu (AT&T Labs-Research), Yaron […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA. ISWC is the international forum for the semantic web and linked data community. Papers with significant impact on the field and outside the field were solicited. Topics included areas such as semantic data programming and weak supervision, deep learning and knowledge graphs, and graph embedding. First place:  Denny Vrandečić, Google Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia Second place: Heiko Paulheim, U Mannheimm How much is a Triple? Third place: Praveen Paritosh, Google What if the primary goal of the web was to foster curiosity? CCC provides travel awards to authors […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 29TH ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, July 9-12, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. The emphasis of this track was on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and new research opportunities. This track was designed to overcome the constraints of the traditional review process and served as an incubator for innovative approaches, risky and provocative ideas, and to propose challenges and opportunities in the near future. First place: Charlie Hargood, Fred Charles and David Millard- “Intelligent Generative Locative Hyperstructure” Second place: Mark Bernstein and Clare Hooper- “A Villain’s Guide to Social Media and Web Science” Third place: Mark Bernstein- “As We […]

The 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) on October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA is having a blue ideas paper track sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blue Sky ideas Conference track.  The blue sky ideas paper track solicits visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and opportunities in the semantic web research 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. The contributions should find the right arguments to convince that the proposed topic is promising and should relate the talk as much as possible to the existing literature from relevant fields, possibly also fields outside […]

Contributions to the following blog were made by former CCC Chair Gregory Hager. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR) in Puerto Varas, Chile on December 11-14, 2017. The purpose was to encourage papers submissions that describe visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities in research that are outside of the current mainstream topics of the field and which will provoke discussion or debate. The 15 submissions reflected the breadth of areas and interests in robotics. Organized into three sessions, the papers ranged from the basics of materials and control for new robot designs, to ideas […]