In mid-October, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will convene a visioning workshop designed to define and recommend improvements to the core components of the artificial intelligence research ecosystem (AIRE). The AIRE workshop — led by Manish Parashar (University of Utah), Vandana Janeja (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Abhishek Bhattacharjee (Princeton University), Edith Elkind (Northwestern University), David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Jofish Kaye (Inflection AI & CRA-I Council), William Regli (University of Maryland), and Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee Knoxville) — brings together research community leaders to examine how the structures that support AI research, from peer review and publishing to funding and partnerships, can keep pace with a rapidly […]

CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in partnership with co-sponsor IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), is excited to announce an upcoming two-day workshop designed to address the evolving future of artificial intelligence (AI) in software development. Beyond Code: Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems with AI at Scale brings together researchers across AI, software engineering, programming languages, cybersecurity, and systems engineering to address the evolving role of AI in developing not just isolated code, but complex and large-scale software systems. The workshop will take place from February 25-26, 2026 at The Westin hotel in San Francisco, CA. There, participants will engage in panels, breakout group discussions, and report-writing alongside fellow experts, ultimately crafting a […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to release the Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security Workshop Report. On August 24-25, 2022, the CCC held a visioning workshop on Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security in Washington, D.C. Led by Simha Sethumadhavan and Tim Sherwood, the workshop brought together experts in hardware and software security, economics, and government policy to investigate ways to improve the design and uptake of hardware security mechanisms.  With the increasing pervasiveness of hardware in society, comes a parallel increase in hardware security concerns. Recent hardware attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown demonstrate just how devastating and dangerous these attacks can be. With the availability of […]

This post was originally published by Helen Wright in the CRA-Industry Blog. On February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC, the Computing Research Association (CRA) held the Accessible Technology for All Workshop. The workshop was attended by over 40 participants from academia, industry, and government and 20 remote participants. The purpose of this workshop was to frame the state of the art of accessible technology, identify forces shaping the evolution of accessible technology, and develop an understanding of implications for the next wave of computer science research in accessibility. By the end of the workshop, important areas of future research were identified and the need for tech-informed policy were highlighted by the participants. A workshop report will […]

By Roohia Meer, CERP Program Associate Applications are now open for the 2023 Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plan Workshop. This year’s workshop will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 30th– June 1st in collaboration with Morehouse College. In this workshop, departments will have the opportunity to learn more about BPC efforts from the National Science Foundation (NSF), how to create a Departmental BPC Plan, and how to best support faculty PIs submitting NSF proposals that require a BPC Plan. Consultants from BPCnet.org will be available to answer questions and provide real-time feedback about your department’s BPC Plan during the workshop. Please check out the workshop website for […]

Originally written by Helen Wright and posted in CRA’s Computing Research News (CRN): The Computing Research Association (CRA) is planning an Accessible Technology for All workshop co-hosted by CRA-Industry (CRA-I), Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and CRA-Widening Participation (CRA-WP) on February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC.  This workshop is one of the activities CRA is currently pursuing under the umbrella of Socially Responsible Computing, one of the topics identified in the recent CRA Strategic Planning Effort. The purpose of this workshop is to convene academic, industry, and government representatives to vision ways to make all technology accessible and why that is important and necessary for society as a whole. Technology should […]