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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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Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Operationalizing AI in Health
“Applying AI in real-world applications requires an understanding of operational realities and human workflows – especially in healthcare applications. My colleagues...
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Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment Fabrication
The following is a guest blog from Kristin Osborne, Communications Manager at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, at the University of Washington...
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Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Staying Connected
The following is a guest blog post from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Jennifer Rexford from Princeton University. Over the past few weeks...
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Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Misinformation
Misinformation during a national emergency is not new. In this current health crisis, the “coronavirus pandemic is generating a tidal wave of information—some of...
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Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Running a Virtual Conference
In two weeks you are hosting 1,800 scientists, engineers, designers, and other experts at a five day conference but then the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
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Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic
By Cherri Pancake, ACM President As the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic continues, we at ACM would like to do what we can to help support the computing community....
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CCC Welcomes Maddy Hunter!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is delighted to welcome Maddy Hunter! The Computing Research Association (CRA) recently hired Maddy as a Program Associate...
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NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
The National Science Foundation‘s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) established the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)...
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White House Announces New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight COVID-19
From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance...
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ACM Announces 2019 Turing Award Recipients
The following blog is from the ACM Bulletin on March 18, 2020. ACM has named Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull recipients of the 2019 ACM A.M...
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Computing Research at AAAS
The following blog is from Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC Director. Every February brings an exciting event for scientists – the AAAS Annual Meeting. AAAS is the American...
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NEWS: Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset
From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg...
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NSF Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova. It is important for the computing research community...
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Blue Sky Conference Track at AAAI-20
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February...
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NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Announcing Creation of the Foundational Research in Robotics Program
Dear Colleagues: The National Science Foundation announces the creation of the Foundational Research in Robotics (Robotics) program as a program jointly managed...
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NIH Innovation Lab “Advancing Cancer Biology at the Frontiers of Machine Learning and Mechanistic Modeling”
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Knowinnovation (KI) are convening experts in cancer systems biology...
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Submit a Blue Sky Ideas Paper to the ACM Hypertext Conference!
The 2020 ACM Hypertext conference is July 13-15 in Orlando, Florida. It is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems...
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Great Innovative Idea: Towards Geocoding Spatial Expressions
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Hussein S. Al-Olimat from The Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) at the Wright State...
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NSF selects 7 winners from its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced recently the selection of four grand prize and three meritorious prize winners for its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea...
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