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What attracts the best and brightest minds of a new generation? What are the next big computing ideas, the ones that will define the future of computing, galvanize the very best students, and catalyze research investment and public support?
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) seeks to mobilize the computing research community to answer these questions by identifying major research opportunities for the field.

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Challenge to the Community:

Is there a science for understanding the complexity of our networks such that we can engineer them to have predictable behavior?


Maybe our networks are really different from anything anyone has ever seen (in nature) or built (by human) before
Implication: A BRAND NEW THEORY is needed!

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Cyber-Physical Systems


The integration of physical systems and processes with networked computing

Computations and Communication deeply embedded in and interacting with physical processes to add new capabilities to physical systems. Applications range from miniscule (pace makers) to large-scale (the national power-grid).

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Robotics


The present CCC study will generate a roadmap of applications for robotics across users, producers and researchers. The objective is to provide a comprehensive view of the use of robotics, main obstacles to deployment and identification of key competencies to facilitate the transformation. Some of these key competencies are not available today due to fundamental problems in design of systems. The process will identify such basic problems that will have to be addressed in order to ensure continued progress. Both market drivers and technology push will be considered as mechanisms for design of new systems.

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Big-Data Computing Study Group


Under sponsorship by the CCC, the Big-Data Study Group will explore and enable opportunities for research and applications of high-performance, data-intensive computing systems, benefiting application areas ranging from astronomy to machine translation.

To begin this effort, two events were held in March, 2008.

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Visions for Theoretical Computer Science


Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) aims to understand the intrinsic capabilities and limitations of efficient computation.

This subfield of computer science has a record of producing unexpected discoveries of high impact, such as public-key cryptography and quantum computation; and of raising deep scientific questions, such as the P vs. NP question.

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Global Resources for Online Education (GROE)


GROE will influence computing research funding strategies in the advancement of education through computational models, reasoning, experimentation and implementation of mobile and ubiquitous pedagogical software.

Immediate topics of interest include: partnerships, services and tools for learning based on improved understanding of human cognition; improved human-computer interaction for individual productivity; networking, mobile and ubiquitous computing to support collaboration and create seamless social learning...

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Cell Phones with Sensors aid Fitness, Environmental Awareness

bodyshapeResearchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbiFit and UbiGreen, to automatically track workouts and green transportation. The programs display motivational pictures on the phone's background screen that change the more the user works out or uses eco-friendly means of transportation.

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Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members

We invite nominations (including self-nominations) for members to serve on the CCC Council for the next three years. Please send suggestions, together with the information below, to Eric Grimson, Sarita Adve, or Andrew Chien by January 14th. This committee’s recommendations will serve as input to CRA and NSF, who are responsible for making the final selection.

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Special Feature

Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century

The pivotal role of information technology in the United States' continued leadership in an increasingly competitive world is well documented. Advances in information technology have led to significant improvements in product design, development and distribution for American industry, provided instant communications for people worldwide. IT to collaborate across the globe, simulate experiments, visualize large and complex datasets, and collect and manage massive massive amounts of data. What does the new government need to know about the value of computing research? What are some of the most promising and exciting research opportunities in the field? What computing capabilities are critical for the nation today and into the future?

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