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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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ACM SIGARCH Blog- Verifying Quantum Software and Hardware
The following is a blog post from the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has also done work in the quantum computing...
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NIH Releases Strategic Plan for Data Science
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released the following letter to the community announcing its Strategic Plan for Data Science. Dear Colleagues...
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2018 NAACL Student Research Workshop
Sam Bowman from New York University provided contributions to this post. The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational...
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NSF Appointment of Dr. Rance Cleaveland as Division Director for the NSF/CISE Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
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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Great Innovative Idea: Identifying optimal navigation schemes by merging tools from computer science, physics, and biology
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Orit Peleg an Assistant Professor of Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder. Peleg was one of the...
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USDA/NIFA Request for Applications on Food and Agriculture Cyber-infrastructure and Tools
Former CCC Council member and current CRA Board member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota provided contributions to this post. The United States Department...
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NSF WATCH TALK- Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population
The next WATCH talk, called Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population, from John M. Abowd, Chief Scientist and Associate...
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ACM Learning Webinar- Socially Assistive Robotics
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Maja Matarić, Chaired Professor and Vice Dean for Research at the University of Southern California will be...
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A Jitterbug-like Tablet for Older Adults?
The computers, smartphones, and tablets that we use every day are becoming more advanced. Older adults who have cognitive or physical disabilities might have trouble...
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Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
Check out the following updates from the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Attend the Tech Jam Update (June 20-22, Portland, Oregon, USA) Register here More than...
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U.S. Department of Energy Request for Information on Machine Learning for Geothermal Energy and the Geosciences
The following is a Request for Information (RFI) from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The Geothermal Technologies...
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CCC Council Member Manuela Veloso Joins JPMorgan Chase & Co. as Head of AI Research
In July, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Manuela Veloso will join JPMorgan Chase & Co. as head of artificial-intelligence research. She is currently...
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NSF Science Nation Highlights CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel’s Ubicomp Lab
Shwetak Patel, from the University of Washington, contributed to this post. Would you like to know how much energy your living room TV is using when it is running...
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Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
CCC Council member Maja Mataric from the University of Southern California provided contributions to this post. If we train Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do our...
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Bloomberg’s It’s Time for Data Ethics Conversations at Your Dinner Table
Recently, Bloomberg posted an opinion piece about data ethics. How do we as a community handle data ethically? We know that the amount of data created each day...
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NSF WATCH TALK- Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population
The next WATCH talk, called Why the Census Bureau Adopted Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population, from John M. Abowd, Chief Scientist and Associate...
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Global City Teams Challenge Updates
Check out the following Global City Teams Challenge Updates Global Tech Jam 2018 Bringing together forward-looking research institutions, federal agencies, leading...
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CCC Workshop on Robotic Materials
The following blog post is by Robotic Materials organizer Nikolaus Correll from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC)...
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NSF/CISE Appoints Dr. Henry Kautz as Division Director for the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation...
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