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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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NSF IIS Division Director Position Available
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just published the job description for the open Division Director position in the Division of Information and Intelligent...
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Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Dr. Jennifer Rexford, Professor and Computer Science Department Chair at Princeton University, has been named...
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DARPA Broad Agency Announcement- Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) with a June 21, 2017,...
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A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt contributed to this post. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) in collaboration with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department...
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AI for Good: Maximizing the economic and societal benefits of AI
Contributions to the following blog were made by former CCC Chair Greg Hager and Tom Kalil, former Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation in the Office of...
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AAAI Human Computation and Crowdsourcing Conference 2017
The Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing will be held in Quebec City, Canada, October 24-26, 2017. It will be sponsored by the Association...
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Eric Horvitz, Former CCC Council Member, is New Head of Research at Microsoft
It was just announced that Eric Horvitz, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and current Co-Chair of the AI and Robotics Task Force, is the...
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Robotics Researcher Named ACM 2017-2018 Athena Lecturer
The Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, Lydia E. Kavraki, has been named the Association for Computing...
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Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
The registration of 2017 Global City Teams Challenge Expo (GCTC) is now open. The Expo will take place at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on August 28-29...
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NSF Awards Early Career Researchers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate‘s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program has awarded 156 early career engineering faculty...
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DataScience@NIH Updates
Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Guide to the Fundamentals of Data...
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NSF WATCH TALK- The Jekyll and Hyde of Smart Contracts
The next WATCH talk, called The Jekyll and Hyde of Smart Contracts is Thursday, April 20th, from 12 – 1 PM ET. The presenter is Ari Juels, a Professor of Computer...
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Congressional Briefing on Cyber Security for Manufacturers
The Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight (MForesight) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with the House Manufacturing Caucus...
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Receives 2016 ACM Turing Award
Contributions to the following blog were made by past CCC Council member Daniela Rus, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the...
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Great Innovative Idea- Report Now, Report Often: Overcoming the Challenges within Cybercrime Reporting
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Morvareed Bidgoli, a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State...
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DARPA Turning to Chemistry for New “Computing” Concepts
The following is a press release from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). As the complexity and volume of global digital data grows, so too does...
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NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture- Improving the Reproducibility of Computational Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Social Good
The organizing committee for the AI for Social Good Workshop has released their workshop report called Artificial Intelligence for Social Good. The Computing Community...
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CCC Council Member Cynthia Dwork is One of the Recipients of the 2017 Gödel Prize
The Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science...
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