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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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2020 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant Accepting Proposals
The following is a blog from Meredith Ringel Morris, Sr. Principal Researcher & MSR Dissertation Grant Chair. We are currently accepting proposals for the Microsoft...
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National Academy of Engineering Elects 87 Members and 18 International Members!
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 87 new members and 18 foreign members. Six computing researchers are among those elected this year. They...
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NSF’s 70th Anniversary Symposium
On May 10, 1950, President Truman signed the National Science Foundation Act, creating the only federal agency charged with funding fundamental research and education...
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Department of Energy Announces $625 Million for New Quantum Centers
The following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish two to five multidisciplinary Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research...
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CCC Workshop Report- Content Generation for Workforce Training
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of a new CCC workshop report called Content Generation for Workforce Training. This...
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Great Innovative Idea: Revolutionizing Tree Management via Innovative Spatial Techniques
The following great innovative idea is from Yiqun Xie, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota. Xie along with his advisor and former Computing...
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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...
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CCC / Code 8.7 Workshop on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
On any given day, tens of millions of people find themselves trapped in instances of modern slavery. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is organizing a visioning...
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Considerations when using Fitness Trackers in Research
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council members Katie Siek (Indiana University) and Shwetak Patel (University of Washington). Many people around...
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NSF Distinguished Lecture: Towards Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Intensive Computations
Juliana Freire, New York University, will present “Towards Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Intensive Computations,” part of the National Science Foundation...
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CCC Program Associate Position Open
The Computing Research Association (CRA) seeks a highly motivated individual to serve as a Program Associate for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee...
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NSF’s Big Ideas
The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani (Acting Assistant Director) and JD Kundu (Acting Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science...
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White House Proposes U.S. AI Regulatory Principles
The following is a recent press release from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. They proposed 10 principles to guide federal regulation of...
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NSF Webcast on the Future of Transportation
On January 14, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation and moderated by Axios, the British Embassy is hosting a distinguished panel discussion on...
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Announcement from NSF/SHF: New funding opportunity Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPoSS)
The following is an announcement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Software and Hardware Foundations Program Directors Nina Amla, Anindya Banerjee, and...
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Computing Research Community Responds to HUD’s Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard
The following blog post is from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder) and CCC Executive Council member...
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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...
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NSF Workshop on Report on Future Directions for Parallel and Distributed Computing (SPX 2019)
The following blog was written by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Due to technology challenges...
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DARPA ISAT Study Outbrief: I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution
The following is a guest blog from Sarita V. Adve from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ratislav Bodik and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington...
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