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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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AI Now Initiative Symposium on July 10th, 2017
The AI Now Initiative is hosting a symposium on July 10th, 2017 at the MIT Media Lab to “address the biggest challenges we face as AI moves further into our everyday...
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Safety and Security for Intelligent Infrastructure
As we start to embed sensing, computing, and communication into previously “dumb” infrastructure, there are clear benefits but it also creates new and challenging...
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NSF WATCH TALK- Confidentiality à la Carte with Cipherbase
The next WATCH talk, called Confidentiality à la Carte with Cipherbase is Thursday, June 22th, from 12 PM-1 PM ET. The presenter is Donald Kossmann is the director...
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DataScience@NIH Updates
Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Highlights and video of selected presentations from the May 16-18...
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Due Date Extended! — Call for Nominations – CRA/CCC Leadership in Science Policy Institute 2017
The following is a guest blog post by CRA Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha. The deadline has been extended to June 23, 2017. As part of its mission to...
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Privacy in Information-Rich Intelligent Infrastructure
Did you know that driverless cars communicate real-time location and other data to cloud aggregators like Google? This intelligent infrastructure monitoring compromises...
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ITIF Report “10 Steps Congress Can Take to Accelerate Data Innovation”
Contributions to the following blog were made by former CCC Chair Gregory Hager and CCC Director Ann Drobnis. We all know there is a lot of data out there, and...
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Great Innovative Idea- Progressing Intention Progression: A Call for a Goal-Plan Tree Contest
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Brian Logan (University of Nottingham), John Thangarajah (RMIT University), and Neil Yorke-Smith (American University...
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NIST Special Publication Draft- Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps in Healthcare Delivery Organizations
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the release of a draft Special Publication (SP) on Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps in Healthcare...
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MOBILITY21: Strategic Investments for Transportation Infrastructure & Technology
Contributions to the blog were made by Rahul Mangharam from the University of Pennsylvania and past CCC Chair Gregory Hager from Johns Hopkins University. How should...
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Great Innovative Idea- Spreading Awareness about HIV Among Homeless Youth Using Artificial Intelligence
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Amulya Yadav, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California...
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NSF CISE Letter to the Community- FY 2018 Budget Request
The following is a letter to the community from Jim Kurose, Assistant Director (AD) and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy AD of the National Science Foundation‘s Directorate...
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Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track held at AAMAS 2017
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and...
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A Rural Lens on a Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
We hear all about “smart cities” but what about smart rural communities? We cannot forget about our rural populations, which we depend on for agriculture, fishing...
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DARPA’s Discover DSO Day (D3)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is sponsoring a Discover DSO Day (D3) on June 15, 2017, to familiarize attendees...
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New NSF Program Solicitation on Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Processing and Storage Technologies (SemiSynBio)
The following is a guest blog post by Mitra Basu, Program Director, and Gera Jochum, Communications Specialist, in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering...
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Call for Blue Sky Papers at RSS 2017 Conference
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Material Robotics (MaRo) – Bridging Materials Science and Robotics...
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Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety
Contributions to this blog were made by Michael Dunaway from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and CCC Council Member Daniel Lopresti from Lehigh University...
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NSF WATCH TALK- Secure Hardware and Cryptography: Contrasts, Synergies and Challenges
The next WATCH talk, called Secure Hardware and Cryptography: Contrasts, Synergies and Challenges is Thursday, May 18th, from 12 PM-1 PM ET. The presenter is Srini...
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