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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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“Continuing Innovation in Information Technology”:New NRC Report Links Government Research Investments to Nation’s Leadership
At the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) biennial Snowbird Conference today, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) will roll out a new report...
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Computing Researchers Among Presidential Early-Career Awardees
This afternoon, the White House named 96 researchers — including a 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) – as recipients of the 2012 Presidential Early Career...
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Introducing the CCC to Our New Readers
For those of you who have been regulars of the CCC Blog since the early days (back in late 2008), thanks for continuing to click on to us. For the rest of you —...
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CCC Calling for Papers for Spatial Computing Visioning Workshop
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has issued a call for participation for an upcoming visioning workshop on spatial computing. Led by Shashi Shekhar (University...
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First GraphLab Workshop on Large-scale Machine Learning
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Carlos Guestrin, who will be joining the faculty of the University of Washington computer science and engineering...
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Four Researchers Honored With 2012 Dijkstra Prize
The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Operating Systems (SIGOPS), together with...
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NSF Announces New SAVI at Intersection of IT, Disasters
At a meeting of the National Science Board (NSB) yesterday, National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
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Important Information for NSF SaTC CAREER Proposals
For those planning to submit CAREER proposals to NSF/CISE for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program — the CAREER deadline is Monday, July 23rd —...
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DARPA Seeking “Radical Innovation” in Data Analytics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has joined forces with George Mason University to launch the Innovation House Study, seeking to foster ”radical...
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Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data
Organizers of the second annual symposium on Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD)
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AFOSR to Hold 60th Anniversary Event This Fall
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced plans for a daylong event this fall marking its 60th anniversary. The conference and exhibit —...
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Arati Prabhakar Named New DARPA Director
As our colleagues on CRA’s Policy Blog have just noted, it appears Arati Prabhakar
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NITRD Steering Group to Host Third Workshop on Wireless Spectrum R&D
The National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program
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NSF: Significant Surge in CS Postdocs in Last Decade
Last December, we blogged about changes in the number of new Ph.D.s in computer science — a slight increase between 2009 and 2010, but the “fastest growth” of all...
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Solving the Turing Test by 2029?
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First Person: Margo Seltzer on Women in CS
Harvard computer scientist and CCC Council member
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