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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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Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ISWC 2018
The 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) on October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA is having an outrageous ideas paper track sponsored by the Computing...
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CCC Announces New Council Members
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed four new members to the Computing Community...
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CCC Chair Beth Mynatt Receives Strong Ally Award at ACM CHI 2018!
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech received the Strong Ally award yesterday at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in...
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NSF WATCH TALK-The Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar International Trade in Our Medical Data
The next WATCH talk, called The Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar International Trade in Our Medical Data, from Adam Tanner, Author of “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies...
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John Hennessy and David Patterson Share ACM Turing Award
The following is from the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today Blog by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill, the John P. Morgridge Professor and Gene M. Amdahl Professor...
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NSF WATCH TALK- In the Eye of the Storm: Biometrics, Security and Privacy
The next WATCH talk, called In the Eye of the Storm: Biometrics, Security and Privacy, from Dr. Arun Ross at Michigan State University, is Thursday, April 26th...
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Great Innovative Idea- Levels of Learning in General Autonomous Intelligent Agents
The following Great Innovative Idea is from John E. Laird from the Unversity of Michigan. Laird was one of the Blue Sky Award winners at the Association for the...
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NSF DCL: Stimulating Research Related to Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)
The following is a cross-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on stimulating research related to one the NSF’s 10 Big Ideas called Navigating the New Arctic...
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South Big Data Hub Roundtable- The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Social Impacts
The South Big Data Hub’s next Data Science Roundtable called The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Social Impacts will be held Thursday, April...
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NSF Distinguished Lecture – Hitting the Nail on the Head: Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Networking
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member Jennifer Rexford from Princeton University will present “Hitting the Nail on the Head: Interdisciplinary...
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Mozilla Currently Accepting Research Grants
Mozilla is currently seeking proposals for research funding to support its mission: to ensure the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all...
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NSF DCL- FY18, FY19 Budget Update
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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CCC Chair Beth Mynatt ACM Computing Across Disciplines Interview
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt provided contributions to this post. How do you successfully accomplish human-centered computing research and design? Focus on users who are...
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CCC@AAAS 2018- Transforming Cities, Transportation, and Agriculture with Intelligent Infrastructure
CCC Chair Elizabeth Mynatt from Georgia Tech and former CCC Council member Shashi Shekhar from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, provided contributions...
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CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Does Some Detective Work
Between December 2016 and August 2017, at least 24 employees of the U.S Embassy in Cuba heard high-pitched sounds and suffered injuries thought to be related to...
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CCC@AAAS 2018- Rethinking Approaches to Disaster Management and Public Safety with Intelligent Infrastructure
Contributions to this post were provided by Executive Council Member Dan Lopresti, Michael Dunaway, Robin Murphy, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. Cell towers on...
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NSF CAREER Program Webinar
The NSF CAREER Coordinating Committee is hosting a webinar to answer participants’ questions about development and submission of proposals to the NSF Faculty Early...
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AI100 Call for Proposals
The Stanford One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, AI100, launched in Fall 2014, is an endowed, long-range investigation of Artificial Intelligence...
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Great Innovative Idea- Geotagging IP Packets for Location-Aware Software
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, and Divesh Srivastava, from AT&T Labs-Research. They were one of the Blue Sky Award winners...
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