The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of a new CCC workshop report called Content Generation for Workforce Training. This report is based on presentations and discussions at the CCC workshop Content Generation for Workforce Training that was held March 14-15, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, and a follow-up workshop by the same name held July 28, 2019 at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. The workshops brought together researchers in a variety of computer disciplines related to content creation and practitioners in workforce training. Efficient workforce training is needed in today’s world in which technology is continually changing the nature of work. Students need to […]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2018 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s “most prestigious member grade,” which “recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.” The 2018 list honors 56 members of ACM for their contributions to computing. Among the 2018 Fellows is Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member David Parkes (Harvard University), recognized for his “contributions to computational markets, including novel mechanism design and incentive engineering methods.” David joined the CCC this year and is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group that is […]