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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 CISE Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTc) Program Director Position Available
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
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Pentagon Awards $75M to Develop Wearable Tech
The U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has awarded $75 million to help a consortium of high-tech firms and researchers develop electronic systems packed with...
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White House Smart Cities Initiative
The White House has kicked off the first ever Smart Cities Week (September 15-17, 2015) in Washington, DC, announcing new steps in support of a new National Smart...
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Cache or Scratchpad? Why choose?
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Full disclosure: He had...
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Division Director Position Available at NSF CISE
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...
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Robin Murphy’s TED Talk on Disaster Robotics
Texas A&M University‘s Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Robin Murphy recently...
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Great Innovative Idea- End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Darrell, and Pieter Abbeel in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences...
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Understanding the Google computer, and making it better
The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Internet-based services...
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Testing Hypotheses Privately
In case you missed it, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Cynthia Dwork, distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, and her co-authors Vitaly...
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CCC Uncertainty in Computation Workshop Report
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) is excited to release a report titled Quantification, Communication, and Interpretation of Uncertainty in Simulation...
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The National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience Summer Meeting
The National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience, which held their inaugural meeting last April, met again last week in Washington, DC. At the open session, Federal...
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CCC BRAIN Workshop Report
The organizing committee for the Research Interfaces between Brain Science and Computer Science (BRAIN) have released their workshop report. This two-day workshop...
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2015 PCAST Review of NITRD released to White House and Congress
In December 2010 and then again in December 2012, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) conducted an extensive review of the Federal...
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Google Announces Science Fair’s 20 Young Finalists
Google announced the finalists for its annual international science fair. There are projects from all over the world covering a wide variety of fields, including...
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Video Analysis for Body-worn Cameras in Law Enforcement
In May, The White House Office of Science Technology Policy, Department of Commerce and the Arnold Foundation approached the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)...
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Great Innovative Idea- Emerging Architectures for Global System Science
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Michela Milano at the University of Bologna-Italy and Pascal Van Hentenryck from NICTA Optimisation Research Group and...
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Summer School on Theoretical Neuroscience
The following is guest post from Christos Papadimitriou, the C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECS Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley...
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Blue Sky Ideas- AAAI-RSS Special Workshop on the 50th Anniversary of Shakey
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at the AAAI-RSS Special Workshop on the 50th Anniversary of Shakey: The Role...
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Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI)
President Obama has issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), which is an effort to create a cohesive, multi-agency...
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