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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 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is awarded yearly for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time. This year the Donald...
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CCC Announces New Council Members
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium...
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DESIGNING OUR FUTURE: A Webinar Panel Discussion on Artificial Intelligence
The following is an upcoming webinar on how AI is being used in the fight against COVID-19, hosted by NSF, Axios, and the British Embassy. Artificial Intelligence...
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Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Virtual Conferences; A Guide to Best Practices
About a month ago, at the beginning of this pandemic, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) blogged about Running a Virtual Conference and highlighted Blair...
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Amazon–National Science Foundation Collaboration on Fairness in AI
In March 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the first ten recipients of the NSF Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration...
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CRA Survey on NSF CISE Departmental BPC Plans
The following is a guest post from Heather Wright, Associate Director of the Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) at the Computing Research Association...
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Getting Computing from Datacenter Walls into Live Cell Walls
The following is a guest post from Karin Strauss from Microsoft Research and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington. The ability to automate computation has...
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CCC Council Member Jennifer Rexford Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced yesterday the election of 120 members and 26 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing...
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Fairness and Machine Learning
Contributions to this post were provided by Alexandra Chouldechova (Carnegie Mellon University), Sampath Kannan (University of Pennsylvania), and Aaron Roth (University...
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Urgent COVID-19 Response: The Congressional Digital Service Fellowship
Passing along this opportunity from TechCongress, an organization focused on bringing technologists and researchers into the halls of Congress to help raise the...
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NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Enabling Quantum Computing Platform Access for National Science Foundation Researchers with Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Microsoft Quantum
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...
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NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplemental Funding in Computer and Information Science and Engineering
The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information...
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New Elected Members Including CCC Council Member Ronitt Rubinfeld
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences recently announced that more than 250 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2020, including Computing...
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Academic Data Science Alliance List of Resources for COVID-19
The following is a letter to the community from Micaela S. Parker, Executive Director of the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA). ADSA was launched in May 2019...
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Automated Contact Tracing for Fighting the Coronavirus: A Short-Tem Effort with Long-Term Repercussions
The following is a guest blog post from Ran Canetti, a professor of Computer Science at Boston University and the Director of the Center for Reliable Information...
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Earth Day 2020: Using Computing to Address Grand Challenges Facing Our Planet
Significant contributions to this post were provided by former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and current Computing Research Association (CRA)...
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Past CCC Council Member Daniela Rus Appointed to White House Science Council
Past Computing Community Consortium Council member Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has been appointed...
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NIH’s Strategic Vision for Data Science: Enabling a FAIR- Data Ecosystem
What if we could link the Framingham Heart Study (NHLBI) with Alzheimer’s health data (NIH) to better understand the correlative effects in cardiovascular health...
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CISE, SBE and the Evolving and Expanding Role of Ethics at NSF and Beyond
Contributions to this post were provided by Fred Kronz, SBE/NSF. The responsible and ethical conduct of research involves not only a responsibility to generate...
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