Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs

May 9-10, 2016

Washington, DC
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

Overview

Over the past several decades, computing and information technologies have shaped our lives, our society, and our physical world in ways we never would have imagined. An increasing number of jobs depend on IT, IT shrinks time and distance in our social lives, agriculture and transportation are rapidly becoming IT-based, and IT holds the promise of revolutionizing education and healthcare. Although many of the IT-powered innovations that are reshaping our society can be traced to fundamental computing-related research, their impact has been magnified through powerful applications in areas of broad societal need and opportunity.

Over the past 10 years, the Computing Community Consortium has hosted dozens of research visioning workshops to imagine, discuss, and debate the future of computing and its role in addressing societal needs. This symposium draws these topics into a program designed to illuminate current and future trends in computing and the potential for computing to address national challenges. The two days are organized around four main themes:

The Impact of Computing in Our Physical World: New advances in robotics and the internet-of-things promise to reshape how people move and act in the world. This session will explore the implications of computing-powered advances for transportation, agriculture, smart cities, and disaster response.
Computing Enhancing Our Lives: Computing will now follow us from our earliest education to healthcare at the end of our lives. This session will illustrate the potential of computing to shape our education, our work life, and enhance our independence and quality of life as we age.
Controlling Our Data: We are all aware of the explosion of issues related to the ever more pervasive use of data and computing. This session will explain how new types of systems and cryptographic techniques can support control, privacy, security, and fairness in a data-rich world.
Partnerships for the Future: The preceding sessions illustrate the enormous leverage of computing research in our lives. This session will present new ideas for combining the capabilities and resources of the public and private sectors to ensure our investments in fundamental computing research have the highest possible value for society.

The symposium will be held at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center on May 9-10, 2016. It is aimed at those interested in the social and policy implications of computing research, and members of the computing community who wish to learn more about current trends in computing and its implications for addressing societal needs.

To watch video recordings of the CCC Symposium on Computing Research visit here.

Poster presenters at the CCC Symposium on Computing Research included early career faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students from many fields of computer science. You can learn more about the poster session and view video presentations here.

Agenda

May 9, 2016 (Monday)

07:30 AM	BREAKFAST \| Atrium Ballroom B
08:30 AM	Welcome and Introductions \| Atrium Ballroom A
08:40 AM	Computing in the Physical World Opening Remarks \| Atrium Ballroom A
08:45 AM	Keynote- Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for Sustainable Development \| Atrium Ballroom A Carla Gomes, Professor and Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University
09:30 AM	Short Talks and Panel Discussion- Opportunities in Urban Environments (Smart Cities) \| Atrium Ballroom A Sokwoo Rhee, National Institute of Standards and Technology – Internet of Things and Smart Cities Carter Hewgley, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Government Excellence- Converting Insight into Action Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory and the Computation Institute – Open Data and Instrumented Cities
10:30 AM	BREAK \| Atrium Ballroom B
11:00 AM	Short Talks and Panel Discussion- Opportunities in Agriculture, Environment, Disaster, Food-Energy-Water \| Atrium Ballroom A Sonny Ramaswamy, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – Societal Challenges and Nutritional Security: The Role of Cyberphysical Systems and Big Data Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota – Computing Challenges in Food, Energy, and Water Nexus: A Perspective Video on Disaster Evacuation Analytics Robin Murphy, Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) and the Center for Emergency Informatics and Texas A&M University – Computing for Disasters
12:00 PM	LUNCH \| Atrium Ballroom B Speaker- Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington
01:15 PM	Computing Enhancing Our Lives Opening Remarks \| Atrium Ballroom A Beth Mynatt, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology, and Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
01:30 PM	Short Talks and Panel Discussion- Life Long Learning (Education and Workforce) \| Atrium Ballroom A Moshe Vardi, Rice University – The Moral Imperatives of Automated Driving Zoran Popović, University of Washington – Discovering New Rapid Pathways to Human Expertise at Scale L. Miguel Encarnação, ACT – From Summative Assessments to Quantified Self: The changing scope of learning analytics in the era of Big Data
03:00 PM	BREAK \| Atrium Ballroom B
03:30 PM	Short Talks and Panel Discussion- Learning Health Systems and Successful Aging \| Atrium Ballroom B Margaret L. Campbell, Retired, Senior Scientist for Planning and Policy Support, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) – Systems Engineering: Complexity and Personalization Are Key to Good Geriatric Care Charles Friedman, University of Michigan Medical School – The Learning Health Systems: Pointing to a ‘New Science’ Rory Cooper, University of Pittsburgh – Computing and Advance Technology to Improve the Lives of People with Disabilities and Older Adults TIME Video on Human Engineering Research Laboratory (HERL)
05:00 PM	Poster Session / Reception \| Atrium Ballroom B
06:00 PM	DINNER \| Rotunda Speaker- Susan L. Graham, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley

May 10, 2016 (Tuesday)

07:30 AM	BREAKFAST \| Atrium Ballroom A
08:30 AM	Welcome Day 2 \| Atrium Ballroom A Controlling Our Data Opening Remarks
08:35 AM	Keynote-Personal Control of Digital Data \| Atrium Ballroom A Butler Lampson, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Corporation and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT
09:20 AM	Short Talks and Panel Discussion- Controlling Our Data \| Atrium Ballroom A Rich Zemel, University of Toronto – Ensuring Fair Decisions Dan Ford, Capitol Technology University – Achieving Privacy in the Ever-evoling World of Smartdevices Cynthia Dwork, Harvard University – Differential Privacy and the Right to Be Forgotten
10:30 AM	BREAK \| Atrium Ballroom B
10:50 AM	Short Talks and Panel Discussion- Privacy via Cryptography \| Atrium Ballroom A Jonathan Katz, Maryland Cybersecurity Center and University of Maryland – Better Privacy and Security via Secure Multiparty Computation Shai Halevi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center – Computing with Encypted Data and Programs Seny Kamara, Brown University – Encrypted Search: From Theory to Practice
12:05 PM	Short Talk- Privacy by Design: Research and Action \| Atrium Ballroom A Deirdre Mulligan, Associate Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley and a co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
12:30 PM	LUNCH \| Atrium Ballroom B
01:30 PM	Partnerships for the Future Overview \| Atrium Ballroom A
01:40 PM	Keynote- Mind the Gaps \| Atrium Ballroom A Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council
02:15 PM	BREAK \| Atrium Ballroom B
02:30 PM	Short Talks and Panel Discussion- Partnerships for the Future Jim Kurose, National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) – Computing Everywhere! Why Partnerships Matter Keith Marzullo, Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) – Partnerships with Communities Chris Mentzel, Data-Driven Discovery Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – Working Together on Data Science Gil Vandentop, STARnet, Semiconductor Research Corporation – Industry Partnerships; Inter-Company Collaboration, Public Private Partnerships, Member Specific Research, and SRC support for all the above
04:15 PM	Closing Remarks \| Atrium Ballroom A

Logistics

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will cover travel expenses for all participants who desire it. Participants are asked to make their own travel arrangements to get to the workshop, including purchasing airline tickets. Following the symposium, CCC will circulate a reimbursement form that participants will need to complete and submit, along with copies of receipts for amounts exceeding $75.

In general, standard Federal travel policies apply: CCC will reimburse for non-refundable economy airfare on U.S. Flag carriers; and no alcohol will be covered.

For more information, please see the Guidelines for Participant Reimbursements from CCC.

Additional questions about the reimbursement policy should be directed to Ann Drobnis, CCC Director (adrobnis [at] cra.org).