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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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Data Hackathons: Lessons Learned & Best Practices Workshop
From September 11-17, 2016, data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from across the globe will convene in Denver, Colorado for the first ever...
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CCC Blue Sky Ideas Conference Tracks
Are you helping organize a conference in the near future? Consider having a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsors...
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Great Innovative Idea- Processor Design Exploration for Vision Based Mobile Robots
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Christopher B. Harris, the Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering at Brown University...
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Change in NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Solicitation
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Tracy Kimbrel, Program Director in the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) at the...
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Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Call for White Papers
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will be sponsoring a visioning activity on Sociotechnical Cybersecurity. As a part of this effort, the workshop organizing...
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Upcoming NIST Deadlines and Events
NIST Seeks Grant Proposals for Disaster Resilience Research Studies National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a Federal Funding Opportunity...
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NSF WATCH Talk- Mapping Interconnection Connectivity and Congestion
The next WATCH talk, called Mapping Interconnection Connectivity and Congestion is Thursday, August 18th, from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter will be Kimberly Claffy...
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NSF DCL: Supporting Fundamental Research in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation‘s Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Engineering...
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South Big Data Hub DataStart fellow reflects on lessons learned
The following is a blog post from Jonathan Ortiz, a Data Analytics and Big Data student at The University of Texas at Austin. Ortiz participated in data.world,...
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Whistling Past the Graveyard: What the End of Moore’s Law Means to All of Computing
The following is a guest blog post from Tom Conte of Georgia Tech. Is “Moore’s Law” ending? If so, what does this mean to all of us in the field of Computing? These...
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Announcement of New NITRD NCO Director – Dr. Bryan Biegel
The following is an announcement from the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO). The Networking...
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The National Strategic Computing Initiative Turns One
The White House recently released a blog celebrating the one year anniversary of the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), which was created to ensure...
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AI for Social Good (AISOC) Spring 2017 Symposium Call for Papers
The AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on AI for Social Good (AISOC) will be March 27-29, 2017 at Stanford University. A rise in real-world applications of AI has stimulated...
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DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2)
The DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) is the first-of-its-kind collaborative machine-learning competition to overcome scarcity in the radio frequency...
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Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI
The following is a guest blog by Vasant G Honavar, a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member and a Pennsylvania State University professor. The emergence...
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NIH Study on Big Data and Imaging Analysis Yields High-Res Brain Map
National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded researchers have more than doubled the knowledge of the functional areas of the human brain. NIH Director, Francis Collins...
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The “Tire Tracks” Diagram Corrected and Humanized by National Academy Workshop Report
The following blog post is by CCC Vice Chair and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill. I write about a recent Computer Science and Telecommunications...
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Three NSF Webinars on Thursday
There are three National Science Foundation (NSF) webinars this Thursday, July 28th about three different solicitations. Read about them below and register to join...
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CCC Computing Research Symposium- Computing in the Physical World
The following is a guest blog post by CCC council member Klara Nahrstedt from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and past CCC council member Ross...
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