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Upcoming AI for Good Global Summit: AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour
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Upcoming AI for Good Global Summit: AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour

AI for Good Global Summit is hosting a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour on Wednesday, February 24th from 10AMb...

AAAS 2021- Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Societal Impacts: An Inflection Point
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AAAS 2021- Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Societal Impacts: An Inflection Point

Significant contributions were provided by CCC Senior Program Associate, Khari Douglas.  The virtual AAAS 2021 meeting took place February 8th – 11th, 2021 and...

National Academy of Engineering Announces Newly Elected Members
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

National Academy of Engineering Announces Newly Elected Members

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 106 new members and 23 foreign members. Several computing researchers are among those elected this year. They...

Former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Appointed as FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity
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Former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Appointed as FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has appointed Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member...

NSF CISE to Hold Workshop on CAREER Proposal Writing on April 5
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NSF CISE to Hold Workshop on CAREER Proposal Writing on April 5

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) will host a one-day workshop on CAREER Proposal Writing...

Call for Applicants- Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Call for Applicants- Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence

Are you a Ph.D. candidate or postdoctoral researcher in the field of artificial intelligence looking for a new opportunity? Do you want to connect with leading...

National Robotics Initiative 3.0
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

National Robotics Initiative 3.0

Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council member Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts, Lowell).  In 2009, the CCC published a report, A Roadmap...

Accepting Proposals – 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
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Accepting Proposals – 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant

The following is an announcement from Microsoft Research. We are currently accepting proposals for the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant through March...

NSF Distinguished Lecture: How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net
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NSF Distinguished Lecture: How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net

Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, will present “How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer...

CRA to Develop a Mentoring Program for NSF’s CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship
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CRA to Develop a Mentoring Program for NSF’s CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship

In response to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate’s recently announced CSGrad4US Fellowship...

The National Science Foundation to Support a Series of Workshops on Pandemic Prediction and Prevention
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

The National Science Foundation to Support a Series of Workshops on Pandemic Prediction and Prevention

The following is an announcement from the National Science Foundation. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has also been working in this space and recently...

NSF DCL: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF DCL: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US)

The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...

A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure: 2021 Update
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure: 2021 Update

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure: 2021 Update, which briefly surveys the 2017...

Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Accepting Nominations
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Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Accepting Nominations

Nominations are open for the 2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship through February 22, 2021. Eligible faculty will then be contacted in early March to submit...

Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...

CCC Vice Chair Dan Lopresti Elected President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
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CCC Vice Chair Dan Lopresti Elected President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair Dan Lopresti was recently elected president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).  IAPR...

Happy New Year from CISE!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Happy New Year from CISE!

A Message from CISE Leadership Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community,  Happy New Year!  2020 certainly brought its share of challenges...

NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF CISE Upcoming Due Dates

Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2021 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information...

Biden Names Science Team; Eric Lander as Science Advisor; Elevates Position to Cabinet-level
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Biden Names Science Team; Eric Lander as Science Advisor; Elevates Position to Cabinet-level

The following is a guest blog post by the Computing Research Association (CRA) Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha. It was originally posted on CRA’s Computing...

Former CCC Council Member Maja Matarić Named A 2020 ACM Fellow
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Former CCC Council Member Maja Matarić Named A 2020 ACM Fellow

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently named 95 of its members as the new ACM Fellows for 2020.    One of the newly named members is former Computing...
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