Computing Research Symposium 2017 – Speakers
Over the past 11 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. The second CCC Computing Research 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.
Beth Mynatt
CCC Chair
Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), a College of Computing Professor, and the Director of the Everyday Computing Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Dunaway
Director National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Intelligent Infrastructure for our Cities and Communities Panel
Moderator:
Dan Lopresti, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University
Panelists:
- Elizabeth M. Belding, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara – A Rural Lens on Intelligent Infrastructure
- Jennifer Clark, Director of the Center for Urban Innovation and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology – Scaling Smart Cities: Design and Planning for Smart Urban Communities
- Chandra Krintz, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-founder and Chief Scientist of AppScale Systems, Inc – UCSB SmartFarm — Turning Data Analytics Into Farm Implements
- Megan S. Ryerson, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Electrical and Systems Engineering in the area of Transportation at the University of Pennsylvania – Integrating the User Perspective in Planning for Smart Cities
Thad Starner
Director of the Contextual Computing Group at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Technical Lead/Manager on Google’s Glass
AI and Amplifying Human Abilities Panel
Moderator:
Beth Mynatt
CCC Chair
Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelists:
- Brenna Argall, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Robotics at Northwestern University – Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
- Jeffrey P. Bingham, Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction and Language Technologies Institutes at Carnegie Mellon University – Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence for Accessibility
- Suchi Saria, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Health Policy and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University – Humans and Machine Working Together to Spot Diseases Faster
- Cliff Young, Member of Google Brain Team – Deep Learning, Special-Purpose Hardware, and Some Hard Problems
Plenary – Our Accelerating Digital Future: Trends, Disruptions, and Market Opportunities
Farnam Jahanian
Interim President of Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Hill
CCC Vice Chair
Professor of Computer Sciences and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Moderator:
Kevin Fu
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
Panelists:
- Roger Dingledine, President and Co-founder of Tor Project – Tor: anonymity, anti-censorship, anti-surveillance
- Simson L. Garfinkel, Chief of the Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research at the U.S. Census Bureau – Modernizing the Disclosure Avoidance System for the 2020 Census
- Phillipa Gill, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst – Improving Democracy with Network Measurement: Challenges and Opportunities
- Daniela Oliveria, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida – Cyber Social Engineering: Why You Should Care and Implications for Democracy
- Dan Wallach, Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University – Adventures in Electronic Voting Research or Security for Electronic Voting Systems
Moderator:
Nadya Bliss
Director of the Global Security Initiative (GSI) at Arizona State University
Panelists:
- Solon Barocas, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University – What is the Problem to Which Fair Machine Learning is the Solution?
- Nick Diakopoulos, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Director of the Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) at Northwestern University – What Makes Algorithmic Accountability Hard
- Kelly Jin, Director of Data-Driven Justice at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation – Disrupting Mass Incarceration with Data
Moderator:
Mark Hill
CCC Vice Chair
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Panelists:
- Will Barkis, Technologist at Orange Silicon Valley
- Patti Brennan, Director of National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health
- Jim Kurose, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- Bill Regli, Special Assistant to the Director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
These were recorded at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Symposium on Computing Research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1136993. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
