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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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Appointment of Dr. Gurdip Singh as Division Director for the NSF/CISE Division of Computer and Network Systems
The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani, Acting Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer...
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Congratulations to the 2019 ACM Fellows
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2019 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s most prestigious member grade, which “comprise...
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Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan 2019
The Director of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program is pleased to share the link for the updated Federal Cybersecurity Research...
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Great Innovative Idea: Datasets First! A Bottom-up Data Linking Paradigm
The following great innovative idea is from Konstantin Todorov from the University of Montpellier and a researcher at the LIRMM laboratory within the FADO group...
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Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit...
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Congratulations to the 2020 IEEE Newly Elevated Fellows!
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has released its 2020 list of newly elevated fellows. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is given to a IEEE member...
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NSF Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) just posted a number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes...
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2019 AAAS Fellows Announced
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) just announced its 2019 Fellows! Fellows are elected each year by their peers serving on the Council...
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NSF Distinguished Lecture: The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General-Purpose Processors, and a New Road Forward
John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet Inc., will present “The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General-Purpose Processors, and a New Road Forward,” part of the National...
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Blue Sky Conference Track at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in...
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National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) Interim Report- Public Conference Calls
Last week, we shared the National Security Commission on AI‘s Interim Report as well as details about the corresponding conference held on November 6, Strength...
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Great Innovative Idea: Co-LOD: Continuous Space Linked Open Data
The following great innovative idea is from Mayank Kejriwal and Pedro Szekely from the University of Southern California. Kejriwal and Szekely were one of the Blue...
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Blue Sky Conference Track at The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2019
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), October...
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Lasers Can be Used to ‘Speak’ to Your Smart Assistant
Hackers can use lasers to silently “speak” to any computer that receives voice commands, these include smartphones, Amazon Echo speakers, Google Homes, and Facebook...
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Policymakers Stress Urgent Need for U.S. Leadership in AI at National Security Commission on AI Conference; Schumer Proposes $100 billion in Research and Education Funding
Significant contributions were provided by CRA Director of Government Affairs Peter Harsha and CCC Director Ann Schwartz Drobnis. Yesterday at a conference of...
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Defense Innovation Board Final Report on AI Ethics Principles
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and CCC Executive Committee Member Nadya Bliss from...
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Disinformation is (Unfortunately) Here to Stay
We live in a new world. A world where information can spread fast and without any regard to accuracy. Our challenge as individual citizens is to somehow identify...
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NSF National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program Webinar on November 7th
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) new solicitation, titled National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes: Accelerating Research, Transforming...
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Meet One of the 2019 MacArthur Fellows- Computer Scientist Josh Tenenbaum!
The MacArthur Foundation recently announced its 2019 MacArthur Fellows – “26 extraordinary MacArthur Fellows demonstrate the power of individual creativity to reframe...
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