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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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Visions in Theoretical Computer Science Workshop Report: A Report on the TCS Visioning Workshop 2020
Roughly every ten years the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) community comes together for a visioning workshop to discuss recent accomplishments and new challenges...
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Great Innovative Idea: Computing for Computational Biology and Digital AI
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Somali Chaterji, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University...
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CIFellows Spotlight – Activating Urban Space through Interactive and Augmented Reality Interfaces
Minka Stoyanova began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from City University of Hong Kong in October 2019. Stoyanova is at University of...
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Active Learning of Transferable Priors, Kernels and Latent Representations for Robotics
Rika Antonova began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in December 2020. Antonova is at...
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CIFellows Spotlight – Machine Learning for Machine Learning
Biresh Kumar Joardar began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD from Washington State University in Summer of 2020. Joardar is at Duke University...
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CIFellows 2021 Application Now Open
The CIFellows 2021 application site is now open. Applicants may start their applications here. Please read the CIFellows 2021 website and FAQs in its entirety before...
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CIFellows Spotlight – Machine Learning for Storage and Execution Layers of Database Systems
Ibrahim Sabek began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD from the University of Minnesota in January 2020. Sabek is at the Massachusetts Institute...
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CIFellows Spotlight – From Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data Narration
Cyn Liu began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington in Fall of 2020. Liu is at the University of California...
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CIFellows Spotlight: Towards Fair and Interpretable Language Processing Models and their Applications
Sunipa Dev began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from University of Utah in Fall of 2020. Dev is at the University of California, Los...
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CRA/CCC Announces CIFellows 2021 Program
The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) are pleased to announce a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) cohort...
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CIFellows Spotlight: Escalation and De-escalation in Expressions of Dissent – A Social Informatics Approach
Richard Canevez began his CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving his PhD from Pennsylvania State University this past October. Canevez is currently at the...
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COMPUTER SCIENTIST AVI WIGDERSON AND MATEMATICIAN LÁSZLÓ LOVÁSZ ANNOUNCED AS 2021 ABEL PRIZE WINNERS
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters recently announced the award of the 2021 Abel Prize going to matematician László Lovász (Alfréd Rényi Institute of...
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CIFellows Spotlight: Improving System Efficiency and Reliability with Causal Learning
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited to announce the new website feature, “CIFellows Spotlight”, which will highlight the work of the Computing Innovation...
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Great Innovative Idea – Smartmedia: Adapting Streamed Content to Fit Location and Context
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs-Research), David Gibbon (AT&T Labs-Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research), Valerie...
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CCC Council Member Melanie E. Moses Article in Nautilus: How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico and External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute...
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Great Innovative Idea: Using Computer Modeling to Effectively Prioritize and Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department and the BioFrontier...
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CCC Council Member Melanie Mitchell on if AI can Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight
Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University was recently interviewed...
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CCC Council Member Maria Gini Featured in University of Minnesota Article: Designing the Next Generation of Robots
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council member Maria Gini. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Distinguished Professor of the...
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CCC 2020 Highlights
The following is a guest blog from CCC Chair Liz Bradley. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), like the rest of the world, had to shift our focus and restructure...
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