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NSF IIS Division Director Position Available
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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...

Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient
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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...

DARPA Broad Agency Announcement- Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M)
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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,...

A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
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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...

AI for Good: Maximizing the economic and societal benefits of AI
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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...

AAAI Human Computation and Crowdsourcing Conference 2017
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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...

Eric Horvitz, Former CCC Council Member, is New Head of Research at Microsoft
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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...

Robotics Researcher Named ACM 2017-2018 Athena Lecturer
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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...

Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
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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...

NSF Awards Early Career Researchers
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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...

DataScience@NIH Updates
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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...

NSF WATCH TALK- The Jekyll and Hyde of Smart Contracts
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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...

Congressional Briefing on Cyber Security for Manufacturers
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

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...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Receives 2016 ACM Turing Award
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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...

Great Innovative Idea- Report Now, Report Often: Overcoming the Challenges within Cybercrime Reporting
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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...

DARPA Turning to Chemistry for New “Computing” Concepts
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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...

NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture- Improving the Reproducibility of Computational Research
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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...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Social Good
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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...

CCC Council Member Cynthia Dwork is One of the Recipients of the 2017 Gödel Prize
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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...

Past CCC Chair Greg D. Hager Inducted to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows
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Past CCC Chair Greg D. Hager Inducted to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) just inducted the 2017 College of Fellows at their 2017 Annual Event at the National Academy...
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