The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) invites proposals for visioning activities that will catalyze and enable innovative research at the frontiers of computing. Successful activities will articulate new research visions, galvanize community interest, mobilize support from the computing research community, government leaders, and funding agencies, and encourage broader segments of society to participate in computing research and education. Past examples can be found here. A best practices guide can be found here.   The majority of visioning activities have been in-person workshops, but this should not be considered a hard-and-fast limitation (i.e. think also of roundtables, online meetings, etc.). Given the current uncertainty of widespread vaccination rates and the timing of a […]

The following is a guest blog from CCC Chair Liz Bradley.  The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), like the rest of the world, had to shift our focus and restructure our activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some highlights from the year are described below; please see our website for more details, as well as plans and opportunities for new activities. In May, CCC—along with its parent organization the Computing Research Association (CRA), and with strong support from the National Science Foundation—launched the CIFellows 2020 program. The goal of this effort is to provide career-enhancing bridge experiences for recent PhD graduates and combat hiring disruptions due to COVID. The 2020 CIFellows […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), the CCC provides a voice for the national computing research community, facilitating the development of a bold, multi-themed vision for computing research and communicating that vision to a wide range of stakeholders. To fulfill its mission, the CCC needs visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work collaboratively to see things through to completion. The Council is composed […]

The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada October 18-22, 2021. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The main conference themes in 2021 will be behavioral health and virtual connectivity, but other major topics of central interest include human communication and multimodal language/dialogue processing, human-robot/agent interaction, affective computing and social interaction, cognitive modeling, multimodal representations and fusion-based architectures, machine learning for multimodal interaction and system applications, speech, gesture, haptics, olfaction, gaze and vision, multimodal datasets and platforms, mobile and ubiquitous interfaces, interfaces for virtual/augmented reality, smart environments, and assistive […]

As part of the rollout of the 2020 Computing Research Associations (CRA) Quadrennial Papers, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to publish the final group of papers around the “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” theme, including papers on AI being deployed at the edge of the network, cooperation between AI and humans, new approaches to understanding AI’s impact on society, AI-driven simulators, and the next generation of AI. The Quadrennial Papers are intended to help inform the computing research community and those who craft science policy about opportunities in computing research to help address national priorities. This group of papers is the final installation of the CCC’s contribution, in addition to […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020), November 3-6th, 2020, online.  The emphasis of this track was on visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities in research that are outside of the current mainstream topics of the field. First Place-Smartmedia: Locally & Contextually-Adapted Streaming Media Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs-Research), David Gibbon (AT&T Labs-Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research), Valerie Yip (AT&T Labs-Research), Eric Zavesky (AT&T Labs-Research) Second Place-Leveraging geospatial data gateways to support the operational application of deep learning models (Vision Paper) Aiman Soliman (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Jeffrey Terstriep […]