Past Task Forces
This page contains resources from previous years’ CCC task forces. The CCC task forces are made up of CCC Council members and influential members of the computing community and are organized around relevant national priorities. Some task forces exist continuously, while others only run for a limited time. To see the current task forces, visit here.
The Artificial Intelligence Task force operated from 2016-2018.
Task Force Overview: Dramatic advances in the power and practicality of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have broad us to a point where the potential impact of AI on society and economy are far-reaching and profound. Yet, we are just at beginnings of understanding the possibilities for AI-related technologies, and at the same time are struggling to understand and advance beyond the substantial limitations of current state-of-the art systems.
The role of this task force was to provide a mechanism for articulating both the state of the art and technical limitations of AI, to help develop forward-looking research agendas for the field, and to better understand the potential of AI to provide tremendous social good in the future, including but not limited to urban computing, health, environmental sustainability, and public welfare. For new CCC resources in AI, visit the Artificial Intelligence Working Group page.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- AI for Social Good workshop report
- Tom Kalil’s AI for Good paper (draft)
- Videos from the AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good
- Advances in Artificial Intelligence Require Progress Across all of Computer Science white paper
- Videos from the Artificial Intelligence for Social Good workshop
- Next Generation Robotics white paper
- Robotics white paper
- CCC Blog post, “Thoughts from White House Frontier’s Conference and the National AI R&D Strategic Plan“
- CCC Blog post, “White House OSTP Report- Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence“
- CCC Blog post, “World’s Largest Technology Companies Create Historic Partnership on AI“
- CCC Blog post, “One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence“
- CCC Blog post, “Artificial Intelligence for Social Good“
Science and Policy Materials on AI:
NITRD – In October 2016, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program released the The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan which identifies the strategies and priorities for Federally-funded AI research.
OSTP – In October 2016,the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published the Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence report, which “surveys the current state of AI, its existing and potential applications, and the questions that are raised for society and public policy by progress in AI. The report also makes recommendations for specific further actions by Federal agencies and other actors.”
White House OSTP Request for Information (RFI) for AI – In June 2016, OSTP announced a new Request for Information (RFI) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), to solicit feedback on how the United States can best prepare for the future of AI. According to the OSTP Blog, they “received 161 responses from a range of stakeholders, including individuals, academics and researchers, non-profit organizations, and industry.” All of the responses are now public and can be found here. The CCC’s response can be found here.
AI-related Events:
OSTP Workshop Series – In May, 2016 OSTP announced four workshops (later a fifth was added) surrounding the future of artificial intelligence to explore the opportunities and challenges that AI presents.
- Artificial Intelligence for Social Good – The CCC co-hosted the second OSTP AI Workshop, Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, with OSTP and AAAI. In this workshop, we discussed the successful deployments and the potential use of AI in various topics that are essential for social good, including but not limited to urban computing, health, environmental sustainability, and public welfare. You can learn more about the workshop here.
- Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy – The first workshop in the series was co-hosted by the University of Washington School of Law, the White House, and UW’s Tech Policy Lab, “the event places leading artificial intelligence experts from academia and industry in conversation with government officials interested in developing a wise and effective policy framework for this increasingly important technology.”
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence – The third workshop, co-hosted by Stanford University and OSTP, featured “leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers will discuss the most impactful research topics in AI and highlight the challenges and potentials of artificial intelligence.”
- Workshop on Safety and Control for Artificial Intelligence – The fourth workshop was co-hosted by Carnegie Mellon University and OSTP and included “keynote talks and panel discussions that explore the potential future of AI and AI applications, the emerging technical means for constructing safe and secure systems, how safety might be assured, and how we can make progress on the challenges of safety and control for AI.”
- The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term – The fifth workshop in the series was co-hosted by the NYU Information Law Institute and the White House generated “a foundational discussion about the role of AI in social and economic systems.”
One Hundred Year Study on AI – “The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, or AI100, is a 100-year effort to study and anticipate how the effects of artificial intelligence will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live and play” and is the brainchild of task force co-chair Eric Horvitz. Learn more about the One Hundred Year Study here and view the 2016 report here.
AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good – In 2016, the CCC co-sponsored a workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good with AAAI and OSTP. In order to further the discussion of the benefits of AI to society, the CCC will co-sponsor the AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on AI for Social Good at Stanford University, March 27-29. This symposium will focus on the promise of AI across multiple sectors of society. Learn more about the Symposium here.
Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI – In November 2016, the CCC co-sponsored a AAAI Symposium that brought together researchers in relevant areas of artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, causal inference, knowledge representation and inference, planning, decision making, human computer interaction, distributed problem solving, natural language processing, multi-agent systems, semantic web, information integration, scientific workflows), high performance data and computing infrastructures and services, and selected application areas (e.g., life sciences, learning sciences, health sciences, social sciences, food energy and water nexus) to discuss progress on, and articulate a research agenda aimed at addressing, the AI grand challenge of accelerating science. A workshop report is in progress.
Other Resources:
Partnership on AI – In September, 2016 Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft “announced that they will create a non-profit organization that will work to advance public understanding of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field. Academics, non-profits, and specialists in policy and ethics will be invited to join the Board of the organization, named the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI).” You can read the full press release here.
2016 Robotics Roadmap – In 2009, the CCC released A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (Robotics Roadmap). The Robotics Roadmap explored the capacity of robotics to act as a key economic enabler, specifically in the areas of manufacturing, healthcare, and in the service industry, 5, 10, and 15 years into the future and was influential in developing 2011’s National Robotics Initiative (NRI). An updated version of the Robotics Roadmap was released in November, 2016 and it expands on the topics discussed in the 2009 roadmap as well as addressing the areas of public safety, earth science, and workforce develop. You can read the full 2016 roadmap here.
Press Articles and Thought Pieces:
The Terminator and the Washing Machine, New York Times
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence is Helping to Save the World, Erin Biba, Freelance Science Journalist
The Terminator and the Washing Machine, New York Times Video on the limitations of AI
Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Protecting Humans and Jobs From Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal, New York Times
How the Scary Potential of AI Brought Tech Competitors Together, Mashable
Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI, Xconomy
The Artificial Intelligence Working Group operated from 2021-2022.
Working Group Overview: The Artificial Intelligence Working Group responded to AI related activities on behalf of the CCC.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
The role of this task force was to provide a mechanism for articulating both the state of the art and technical limitations of AI, to help develop forward-looking research agendas for the field, and to better understand the potential of AI to provide tremendous social good in the future, including but not limited to urban computing, health, environmental sustainability, and public welfare. For new CCC resources in AI, visit the Artificial Intelligence Working Group page.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
2020 Quadrennial Papers
Every four years the Computing Research Association, through its subcommittees, publishes a series of white papers called Quadrennial Papers that explore areas and issues around computing research with potential to address national priorities. The white papers attempt to portray a comprehensive picture of the computing research field detailing potential research directions, challenges, and recommendations. Below are the AI related quadrennial papers from 2020:
- Imagine All the People: Citizen Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Research white paper
- Artificial Intelligence at the Edge white paper
- Artificial Intelligence & Cooperation white paper
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Society white paper
- The Rise of AI-Driven Simulators: Building a New Crystal Ball white paper
- Next Wave Artificial Intelligence: Robust, Explainable, Adaptable, Ethical, and Accountable white paper
- Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and High Performance Computing white paper
- Robotics Enabling the Workforce white paper
Artificial Intelligence Roadmap
In 2018, the working group led the CCC’s effort to generate an AI Roadmap. The Roadmap activity was chaired by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and President-Elect of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University), this new effort is in support of the Administrations’ efforts in this area, and will bring together academic and industrial researchers and federal agency representatives to help chart a course for needed research in AI, through a series of workshops in the Fall of 2018, resulting in a Roadmap to be produced in the Spring of 2019. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is supporting the effort, and Henry Kautz, Division Director for Intelligent Intelligent Information Systems is helping to coordinate the effort with the CCC. This effort is similar to one of the CCC’s first activities, the Robotics Roadmap, which helped to launch the National Robotics Initiative in 2011 and the subsequent 2016 Robotics Roadmap and NRI 2.0.
Three workshops were held and you can learn more about each workshop on their respective webpages linked below or the Roadmap webpage.
- Workshop 1 – Integrated Intelligence (November 2018)
- Workshop 2 – Interaction (January 2019)
- Workshop 3 – Learning and Robotics (January 2019)
Here is the link to the whole report (117 pages).
Below are links to individual sections:
- Executive Summary (5 pages)
- Introduction (5 pages)
- Major Findings (4 pages)
- Recommendations (22 pages)
- Major Societal Drivers for Future Artificial Intelligence Research (4 pages)
- Core Technical Areas of AI Research Roadmap
- A Research Roadmap for Integrated Intelligence (19 pages)
- A Research Roadmap for Meaningful Interaction (27 pages)
- A Research Roadmap for Self-Aware Learning (26 pages)
- Conclusions (1 pages)
- Appendices (participants and contributors; 2 pages)
Additional Resources
Below are some CCC materials produced by the now-retired AI task force and curated for this working group, which include:
- AI for Social Good workshop report
- Tom Kalil’s AI for Good paper (draft)
- Videos from the AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good
- Advances in Artificial Intelligence Require Progress Across all of Computer Science white paper
- Videos from the Artificial Intelligence for Social Good workshop
- Next Generation Robotics white paper
- Robotics white paper
- CCC Blog post, “Thoughts from White House Frontier’s Conference and the National AI R&D Strategic Plan“
- CCC Blog post, “White House OSTP Report- Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence“
- CCC Blog post, “World’s Largest Technology Companies Create Historic Partnership on AI“
- CCC Blog post, “One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence“
- CCC Blog post, “Artificial Intelligence for Social Good“
Artificial Intelligence Videos:
The video playlist below features the videos from AI and Amplifying Human Abilities Plenary and Panel at the 2017 Computing Research Symposium. Details about the speakers are below.
Plenary: Thad Starner, Georgia Tech/Google’s Glass – Augmenting Intellect through Wearables and Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: Beth Mynatt, CCC Chair/Georgia Tech
Panelists:
- Brenna Argall, Northwestern University – Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
- Jeffrey P. Bingham, Carnegie Mellon University – Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence for Accessibility
- Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins University – Humans and Machine Working Together to Spot Diseases Faster
- Cliff Young, Google Brain Team – Deep Learning, Special-Purpose Hardware, and Some Hard Problems
The following playlist features videos from the AAAI Symposium for AI for Social Good.
The following playlist features videos from the workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good.
Science and Policy Materials on AI:
NITRD – In October 2016, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program released the The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan which identifies the strategies and priorities for Federally-funded AI research.
OSTP – In October 2016,the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published the Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence report, which “surveys the current state of AI, its existing and potential applications, and the questions that are raised for society and public policy by progress in AI. The report also makes recommendations for specific further actions by Federal agencies and other actors.”
White House OSTP Request for Information (RFI) for AI – In June 2016, OSTP announced a new Request for Information (RFI) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), to solicit feedback on how the United States can best prepare for the future of AI. According to the OSTP Blog, they “received 161 responses from a range of stakeholders, including individuals, academics and researchers, non-profit organizations, and industry.” All of the responses are now public and can be found here. The CCC’s response can be found here.
AI-related Events:
OSTP Workshop Series – In May, 2016 OSTP announced four workshops (later a fifth was added) surrounding the future of artificial intelligence to explore the opportunities and challenges that AI presents.
- Artificial Intelligence for Social Good – The CCC co-hosted the second OSTP AI Workshop, Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, with OSTP and AAAI. In this workshop, we discussed the successful deployments and the potential use of AI in various topics that are essential for social good, including but not limited to urban computing, health, environmental sustainability, and public welfare. You can learn more about the workshop here.
- Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy – The first workshop in the series was co-hosted by the University of Washington School of Law, the White House, and UW’s Tech Policy Lab, “the event places leading artificial intelligence experts from academia and industry in conversation with government officials interested in developing a wise and effective policy framework for this increasingly important technology.”
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence – The third workshop, co-hosted by Stanford University and OSTP, featured “leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers will discuss the most impactful research topics in AI and highlight the challenges and potentials of artificial intelligence.”
- Workshop on Safety and Control for Artificial Intelligence – The fourth workshop was co-hosted by Carnegie Mellon University and OSTP and included “keynote talks and panel discussions that explore the potential future of AI and AI applications, the emerging technical means for constructing safe and secure systems, how safety might be assured, and how we can make progress on the challenges of safety and control for AI.”
- The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term – The fifth workshop in the series was co-hosted by the NYU Information Law Institute and the White House generated “a foundational discussion about the role of AI in social and economic systems.”
One Hundred Year Study on AI – “The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, or AI100, is a 100-year effort to study and anticipate how the effects of artificial intelligence will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live and play” and is the brainchild of task force co-chair Eric Horvitz. Learn more about the One Hundred Year Study here and view the 2016 report here.
AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good – In 2016, the CCC co-sponsored a workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good with AAAI and OSTP. In order to further the discussion of the benefits of AI to society, the CCC will co-sponsor the AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on AI for Social Good at Stanford University, March 27-29. This symposium will focus on the promise of AI across multiple sectors of society. Learn more about the Symposium here.
Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI – In November 2016, the CCC co-sponsored a AAAI Symposium that brought together researchers in relevant areas of artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, causal inference, knowledge representation and inference, planning, decision making, human computer interaction, distributed problem solving, natural language processing, multi-agent systems, semantic web, information integration, scientific workflows), high performance data and computing infrastructures and services, and selected application areas (e.g., life sciences, learning sciences, health sciences, social sciences, food energy and water nexus) to discuss progress on, and articulate a research agenda aimed at addressing, the AI grand challenge of accelerating science. A workshop report is in progress.
Other Resources:
Partnership on AI – In September, 2016 Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft “announced that they will create a non-profit organization that will work to advance public understanding of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field. Academics, non-profits, and specialists in policy and ethics will be invited to join the Board of the organization, named the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI).” You can read the full press release here.
2016 Robotics Roadmap – In 2009, the CCC released A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (Robotics Roadmap). The Robotics Roadmap explored the capacity of robotics to act as a key economic enabler, specifically in the areas of manufacturing, healthcare, and in the service industry, 5, 10, and 15 years into the future and was influential in developing 2011’s National Robotics Initiative (NRI). An updated version of the Robotics Roadmap was released in November, 2016 and it expands on the topics discussed in the 2009 roadmap as well as addressing the areas of public safety, earth science, and workforce develop. You can read the full 2016 roadmap here.
Press Articles and Thought Pieces:
The Terminator and the Washing Machine, New York Times
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence is Helping to Save the World, Erin Biba, Freelance Science Journalist
The Terminator and the Washing Machine, New York Times Video on the limitations of AI
Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Protecting Humans and Jobs From Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal, New York Times
How the Scary Potential of AI Brought Tech Competitors Together, Mashable
Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI, Xconomy
The Computational Challenges in Healthcare Task Force operated from 2022-2023.
Task force overview: Created in fall 2022, this task force will focus on the role of the interplay between technology and humans (from individuals to society) in creating resilient systems. It will investigate three main questions: (i) Resilience of what? (ii) Resilience to what? (iii) Resilience by which means?
Related Activities:
- Future of Pandemic Prevention and Response Workshop – In this workshop, we discussed and summarized challenges and envision computational opportunities related to forecasting and disease spread; disease evolution; automated notification systems; logistics and supply allocation; interventions and vaccination proof; and genomic medicine to ensure we are more prepared for the next pandemic. We also planned a pandemic emergency simulation to help us determine what computational tools exist and are useful, and the gaps that researchers at the intersection of computing and health are in the unique position to fill.
The Computing Challenges to Humanity Task Force operated from 2021-2022.
Working Group Overview: The Computing Challenges to Humanity task force was established in fall 2021 in order to lead the CCC’s activities related to the impact that computing can have on major challenges to humanity. The task force is split into two teams one focusing on equity such as identifying and mitigating bias and sociotechnical interventions for health and wellness and the other focused on climate change and sustainable computing.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- Computing Research for the Climate Crisis white paper
- Taking Stock of the Present and Future of Smart Technologies for Older Adults and Caregivers white paper
- Modernizing Data Control: Making Personal Digital Data Mutually Beneficial for Citizens and Industry white paper
- Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness, and Resilience white paper
- CCC / Code 8.7 Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery workshop report
The Computing in the Physical World Task Force operated from 2015-2017.
Task Force Overview: There is a lot of activity going on in the Internet of Things area. The goal of this task force is to focus on the core research challenges, highlight what they are and that new research is needed, and communicate the value of leveraging the research community to solve them.
Internet of Things White Papers
The Intelligent Infrastructure white paper series was a collaboration between the Computing Community Consortium and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA).
- A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
- MOBILITY21: Strategic Investments for Transportation Infrastructure & Technology
- Digital Grid: Transforming the Electric Power Grid into an Innovation Engine for the United States
Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety - City-Scale Intelligent Systems and Platforms
- Intelligent Infrastructure for Smart Agriculture: An Integrated Food, Energy and Water System
- Safety and Security for Intelligent Infrastructure
- A Rural Lens on a Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
- Privacy in Information-Rich Intelligent Infrastructure
- Smart Wireless Communication is the Cornerstone of Smart Infrastructures
Toward a Science of Autonomy for Physical Systems White Papers
From Kevin Fu’s presentation at the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board Meeting, October 22, 2015
AAAS 2017 Meeting panels:
- When Everyday Objects Become Internet Devices: A Science Policy Agenda featuring Shwetak Patel, Beth Mynatt, and Ben Zorn.
- Assistive and Rehabilitative Robotics featuring Ruzena Bajcsy (University of California) Berkeley, Maja Mataric, and Marjorie Skubic (University of Missouri)
CCC Response to NITRD “Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan: Exploring Innovation Together”
- Link to the Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan
- Link to the CCC Response
Related Resources
Below is a list of initiatives, documents, and web sites related to the topics in the Internet of Things white paper.
Robust and Secure Systems
- NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- IOActive white paper “An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber-Attacks”, 2015,
- FBI Public Service Announcement about IoT and cyber-crime (Sept. 10, 2015)
Smart Cities
- Smart Nation initiative in Singapore
- Smart City/Big Data Initiative in Chicago
- Barcelona (with Cisco) “IoE-Driven Smart City Barcelona Initiative Cuts Water Bills, Boosts Parking Revenues, Creates Jobs & More”
- PCAST Report “Technology and the Future of Cities” (February 2016)
Related announcements/papers/videos:
- UN ITU (International Telecommunication Union) / GSR (Global Symposium for Regulators) report entitled “GSR discussion paper: Regulation and the Internet of Things”, June 2015
- Silicon Industry Association (SIA) / Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) report on “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action”, August 2015, with specific recommendations for funding areas to accelerate the Internet of Things impact
- Brian Mosley’s CRA blog post about this (9/2/2015)
- NSF/Intel IoT partnership
- McKinsey Report: “Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things”
- FTC report on IoT: Privacy and Security (January 2015)
- 2006 talk by Helen Gill from the National Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
- John Apostolopoulos (Cisco) presentation “New Networked Applications with the Internet of Things: Technology Challenges and Opportunities”
Related Activities
- Extensible Distributed Systems Workshop (NSF and CCC sponsored, January 2015)
- The New Making Renaissance: Programmable Matter and Things (CCC sponsored, June 2015)
- NSF Workshop on Autonomy in CPS and Robotics (September 2015)
The Convergence of Data and Computing Task Force operated from 2015-2017.
Task Force Overview: The CCC task force on the Convergence of Data and Computing lead activities at the intersections of Big Data, High Performance Computing, and the future of HPC.
Public materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- The Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing white paper
- The Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda white paper
- Challenges to Keeping the Computer Industry Centered in the US white paper (draft)
- Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights white paper
- Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy white paper
- The 21st Century Computer Architecture in 2012 white paper
- The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? white paper
- Federal Big Data Initiative
The CCC task force on the Convergence of Data and Computing leads activities at the intersections of Big Data, High Performance Computing, and the future of HPC.
Big Data has been a major theme of CCC’s over the years. In 2008, the CCC held two events for Big Data that coalesced the research community and the usage community. A number of CCC’s white papers focused on the topic. These have been credited by the Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) with helping to shape the Federal Big Data Initiative. The CCC also partnered with AAAI for the 2016 Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI.
On the other hand, computing challenges have been discussed in CCC and National Academy works, such as 21st Century Computer Architecture in 2012 and The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? in 2011.
Data and Computing White Papers
- Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing
- Discusses potential opportunities enabled by radical increases in computing performance with decreased power, and which suggests some possible pathways to achieve these ends. With increased performance and decreased power, computing could have major impacts on societal issues such as new search engines for science, better understanding of human-in-the-loop systems, monitoring and anticipating of extreme weather conditions, and understanding quantum effects in materials and chemistry.
- Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda
- Seeks to articulate a research agenda for developing cognitive tools that can augment human intellect and partner with humans on the scientific process.
Related Workshops
- Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI: In November 2016, the CCC co-sponsored a AAAI Symposium that brought together researchers in relevant areas of artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, causal inference, knowledge representation and inference, planning, decision making, human computer interaction, distributed problem solving, natural language processing, multi-agent systems, semantic web, information integration, scientific workflows), high performance data and computing infrastructures and services, and selected application areas (e.g., life sciences, learning sciences, health sciences, social sciences, food energy and water nexus) to discuss progress on, and articulate a research agenda aimed at addressing, the AI grand challenge of accelerating science. A workshop report is in progress.
The Cybersecurity Task force operated from 2017-2018.
Task Force Overview: This task force aimed to shed light on cybersecurity research and best practices, with a focus on cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things in an increasingly connected world.
Resources curated for this task force include:
Internet of Things White Papers
Robust and Secure Systems
- NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- IOActive white paper “An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber-Attacks”, 2015,
- FBI Public Service Announcement about IoT and cyber-crime (Sept. 10, 2015)
Related announcements/papers/videos:
- UN ITU (International Telecommunication Union) / GSR (Global Symposium for Regulators) report entitled “GSR discussion paper: Regulation and the Internet of Things”, June 2015
- Silicon Industry Association (SIA) / Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) report on “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action”, August 2015, with specific recommendations for funding areas to accelerate the Internet of Things impact
- Brian Mosley’s CRA blog post about this (9/2/2015)
- NSF/Intel IoT partnership
- McKinsey Report: “Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things”
- FTC report on IoT: Privacy and Security (January 2015)
- 2006 talk by Helen Gill from the National Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
- John Apostolopoulos (Cisco) presentation “New Networked Applications with the Internet of Things: Technology Challenges and Opportunities”
Related Activities
- Sociotechnical Cybersecurity workshop series (2016-2017)
- Extensible Distributed Systems Workshop (NSF and CCC sponsored, January 2015)
- The New Making Renaissance: Programmable Matter and Things (CCC sponsored, June 2015)
- NSF Workshop on Autonomy in CPS and Robotics (September 2015)
The Cybersecurity Task force operated from 2018-2020.
Task Force Overview: An outgrowth of the Sociotechnical Cybersecurity workshop series and previous Cybersecurity Task Force, the Cybersecurity and Cybercrime task force works to identify ways to combat cybercrime and configure best practice for cybersecurity in an increasingly connected world, not solely focused on technical interventions, but also concerned with sociotechnical and economic factors.
Resources curated for this task force include:
5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap
In March 2020 the CCC released the 5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap white paper by CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), Syed Rafiul Hussain (Purdue University), and Omar Chowdhury (University of Iowa).
Abstract: Cellular networks represent a critical infrastructure and their security is thus crucial. 5G – the latest generation of cellular networks – combines different technologies to increase capacity, reduce latency, and save energy. Due to its complexity and scale, however, ensuring its security is extremely challenging. In this white paper, we outline recent approaches supporting systematic analyses of 4G LTE and 5G protocols and their related defenses and introduce an initial security and privacy roadmap, covering different research challenges, including formal and comprehensive analyses of cellular protocols as defined by the standardization groups, verification of the software implementing the protocols, the design of robust defenses, and application and device security.
For citation use: Bertino E., Hussain S. R., & Chowdhury O. (2020) 5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap https://cra.org/ccc/resources/ccc-led-whitepapers/
Internet of Things White Papers
- Safety, Security, and Privacy Threats Posed by Accelerating Trends in the Internet of Things
- System Computing Challenges in the Internet of Things
- Smart Communities Internet of Things
Robust and Secure Systems
- NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- IOActive white paper “An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber-Attacks”, 2015,
- FBI Public Service Announcement about IoT and cyber-crime (Sept. 10, 2015)
Related announcements/papers/videos:
- UN ITU (International Telecommunication Union) / GSR (Global Symposium for Regulators) report entitled “GSR discussion paper: Regulation and the Internet of Things”, June 2015
- Silicon Industry Association (SIA) / Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) report on “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action”, August 2015, with specific recommendations for funding areas to accelerate the Internet of Things impact
- Brian Mosley’s CRA blog post about this (9/2/2015)
- NSF/Intel IoT partnership
- McKinsey Report: “Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things”
- FTC report on IoT: Privacy and Security (January 2015)
- 2006 talk by Helen Gill from the National Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
- John Apostolopoulos (Cisco) presentation “New Networked Applications with the Internet of Things: Technology Challenges and Opportunities”
Related Activities
The Education Task Force operated from 2014-2016.
Task Force Overview: Education is a National Priority. We need to determine what the CCC / CS research community can and should be doing to work in this area, while realizing that it is a crowded and difficult space since education is a “local issue.”
Public materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- The Importance of Computing Education Research white paper
- The Computer-Aided Personalized Education workshop report
- The Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education workshop report
- A Roadmap for Education Technology report
- Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: An Issue Brief, U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology
Additional information on these materials can be found below.
Education Research Whitepaper
The task force has produced a whitepaper for the computing research and policy community on The Importance of Computing Education Research.
Computer-Aided Personalized Education
On November 12-13, the CCC with be holding the Computer-Aided Personalized Education (CAPE) Workshop in Washington, DC. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers developing educational tools based on technologies such as logical reasoning and machine learning with researchers in education, human-computer interaction, and psychology to articulate a long-term research agenda. The focus will be on college-level courses in computer science, mathematics, and physics. The workshop is expected to foster new collaborations among participants from diverse disciplines, suggest new research directions in computer-aided education, inspire other researchers to work on these problems, and ultimately result in technology for effective and personalized learning.
Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education Workshop
February 11-12, 2013 in Washington, DC, the CCC held the Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education Workshop (MROE). Participants explored computer science and multidisciplinary research agendas designed to improve formal and informal education. The workshop built on CCC’s earlier visioning activities on Global Resources for Online Education (GROE), addressing education-relevant research in areas such as intelligent student modeling through data mining, mobile computing for data logging, social networking, serious games, intelligent learning environments, HCI to facilitate educational interactions, computer-supported collaborative learning, interactive visualizations and simulations, and many other areas, to include research at the interface of computing and the social/behavioral sciences.
This CCC visioning workshop addressed these and related questions on computing-relevant multidisciplinary research, looking 5-10 years out, for online education. Importantly, the workshop did not address shorter-term concerns such as credentialing and business models for online education ventures, except as these inform the workshop’s focus on longer-term research agendas.
Read the Workshop Report here.
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Related Resources
The FADE (Fairness, Accountability, Disinformation, and Explainability) Task Force operated from 2019-2020.
Task Force Overview: The FADE task force addresses the overlapping areas of fairness, accountability, disinformation, and explainability within algorithms, big data, and the Internet.
Public materials related to the goals of this task force include:
- Algorithmic and Economic Perspectives on Fairness workshop report
- The Frontiers of Fairness in Machine Learning workshop report
- The Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights white paper
- The Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis for the Federal Statistical Agencies white paper
- The Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community white paper
- The Privacy by Design – State of Research and Practice workshop report
- The Privacy by Design – Privacy Enabling Design workshop report
- The Privacy by Design – Engineering Privacy workshop report
- BIG DATA: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values
- Report to the President on Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective
The CCC’s Privacy-related workshops include:
- Fair Representations and Fair Interactive Learning, March 18-19, 2018
- Sociotechnical Cybersecurity workshop series, 2016-2017
- Privacy by Design Workshop Series, 2015-2016
The Fairness and Accountability Task Force operated from 2018-2019.
Task Force Overview: This task force addresses the important domains of fairness and accountability in an interconnected and big-data driven world. Public materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- The Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights white paper
- The Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis for the Federal Statistical Agencies white paper
- The Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community white paper
- The Privacy by Design – State of Research and Practice workshop report
- The Privacy by Design – Privacy Enabling Design workshop report
- The Privacy by Design – Engineering Privacy workshop report
- BIG DATA: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values
- Report to the President on Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective
The CCC’s Privacy-related workshops include:
- Fair Representations and Fair Interactive Learning, March 18-19, 2018
- Sociotechnical Cybersecurity workshop series, 2016-2017
- Privacy by Design Workshop Series, 2015-2016
The below video playlist comes from the Data, Algorithms, and Fairness Panel at the 2017 Computing Research Symposium. Watch more presentations from the symposium here.
Moderator: Nadya Bliss, Arizona State University
Panelists:
- Solon Barocas, Cornell University – What is the Problem to Which Fair Machine Learning is the Solution?
- Nick Diakopoulos, Northwestern University – What Makes Algorithmic Accountability Hard
- Kelly Jin, Laura and John Arnold Foundation – Disrupting Mass Incarceration with Data
The Future of Life in a Hybrid World Task Force operated from 2021-2022.
Task Force Overview: Established in fall 2021, the Future of Life in a Hybrid World task force will lead CCC activities related to the Internet of Things (IoT), aging in place, robotics, and related topics.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force includes:
Workshops:
The CCC Hybrid Workshop on Best Practices for Hybrid Workshops
This workshop was held on October 14-15, 2021 and a workshop report is in progress. Learn more about the motivation for the workshop below:
The 2020 pandemic has catalyzed the transition to remote work but even prior to the pandemic, supported by new technologies (faster Internet connections, powerful end-user computing and communication devices, cloud applications, etc.), there has been a slow and steady move to a distributed and remote workforce. Increasingly, in many sectors people can literally work from anywhere thanks to the advances in computing and communications. Some of the scenarios that have become very familiar to many in the last decade include:
- Catching up on work in the evening from home
- Watching an oversubscribed lecture on-line
- Participating in a meeting remotely
- Developing code in a large software project with a distributed team
Even with the technological advances and adoption of remote work, there are some serious challenges that remain. In particular, hybrid environments in which there are clusters of participants who are co-located physically while others are distributed across the world, are far from perfect. Hybrid environments present both technological and social challenges, including inequity issues across a number of dimensions. We believe our future is hybrid. Towards that end, we would like to plan a Computing Community Consortium (CCC) visioning activity on the technical, social and equity challenges that hybrid environments present. And what better way to experience and experiment than run the visioning in a hybrid environment? This is what we mean by “Meta Hybrid Visioning.”
Resources:
General Articles and Blogs
- 13 Rules for Successful Hybrid Meetings: Lessons from 100 Articles
- Distance matters
- New Microsoft Study of 60,000 Employees: Remote Work Threatens Long-Term Innovation
- My hybrid conference wishlist
Accessibility
- SIGACCESS Guide to Accessible Virtual Conferences
- SIGACCESS Guide to Accessible Conferences
- Behind the scenes of axe-con: building a large, accessible
- Accessibility in Third-Party Products and Services
Technology
Sustainability
- Please let us know if you have recommendations
Social Factors
- Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces – CHI Presence Workshop Submission Draft
2020 Quadrennial Papers
Health IT Resources
- The Role of Robotics in Infectious Disease Crises workshop report
- Response to NITRD draft Federal Health Information Technology Research and Development Strategic Framework
- The Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health workshop report
- The Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich Online Content and Services workshop report
- The New Age of Computing and the Brain workshop report
- The Trans-NIH/Interagency Workshop on the Use and Development of Assistive Technology for the Aging Population and People with Chronic Disabilities white paper
- The Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions workshop report
- The Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery white paper
- The From Data to Predictions and Decisions: Enabling Evidence Based Healthcare white paper
- Quality of Life Technologies in Supporting Family Caregivers
- Intelligent Systems for Assessing Aging Changes: Home-Based, Unobtrusive, and Continuous Assessment of Aging
- Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
- Sensor Technology to support Aging in Place
- Generation Smart-phone
The Future of the Research Enterprise Task Force operated from 2019-2020.
Task Force Overview: The Future of the Research Enterprise task force led activities to address the future of the research enterprise in an evolving computing research ecosystem. Topics to address included the impact of academia-industry relations (learn more on the Industry working group page), the peer review process, and the future of open source project.
The Future of the Research Enterprise (FRE) task force has released the Evolving Methods for Evaluating and Disseminating Computing Research white paper. Based on interviews with members of the computing research community, this white paper presents the trends the task force has observed, discusses the impacts of changing review and dissemination processes, and suggests methods to reduce the negative impacts of these trends.
Overall the task force found that “Trends impacting computing research are largely positive and have increased the participation, scope, accessibility, and speed of the research process,” however “Challenges remain in securing the integrity of the process, including addressing ways to scale the review process, avoiding attempts to misinform or confuse the dissemination of results, and ensuring fairness and broad participation in the process itself.” (p. 1).
In response to these trends and challenges, the task force recommends:
- “Regularly polling members of the computing research community, including program and general conference chairs, journal editors, authors, reviewers, etc., to identify specific challenges they face to better understand these issues.
- An influential body, such as the Computing Research Association (CRA), regularly issues a “State of the Computing Research Enterprise” report to update the community on trends, both positive and negative, impacting the computing research enterprise.
- A deeper investigation, specifically to better understand the influence that social media and preprint archives have on computing research, is conducted.
- Initiate an investigation of the impact of COVID-19 on the broader computing research enterprise, including the impact on evaluation and dissemination.” (pp. 1-2).
Read the full report here or on arXiv.
For citation use: Zorn B., Conte T., Marzullo K., & Venkatasubramanian S. (2020) Evolving Methods for Evaluating and Disseminating Computing Research https://cra.org/ccc/resources/ccc-led-whitepapers/ or arXiv identifier: arXiv:2007.01242 [cs.CY].
The Healthcare Task Force operated from 2015-2017.
Task Force Overview: The CCC task force on Healthcare organized and produced activities and content on the challenges and opportunities of computing in the field of healthcare.
Public materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- Response to NITRD draft Federal Health Information Technology Research and Development Strategic Framework
- The Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health workshop report
- The Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich Online Content and Services workshop report
- The New Age of Computing and the Brain workshop report
- The Trans-NIH/Interagency Workshop on the Use and Development of Assistive Technology for the Aging Population and People with Chronic Disabilities white paper
- The Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions workshop report
- The Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery white paper
- The From Data to Predictions and Decisions: Enabling Evidence Based Healthcare white paper
- Quality of Life Technologies in Supporting Family Caregivers
- Intelligent Systems for Assessing Aging Changes: Home-Based, Unobtrusive, and Continuous Assessment of Aging
- Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
- Sensor Technology to support Aging in Place
- Generation Smart-phone
The CCC’s HealthIT workshops include:
- Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health
- Cyber-social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- Inclusive Access
- BRAIN
- Aging in Place
- Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich Online Content and Services.
- Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions
- Discovery and Innovation in Health IT
CCC at AAAS 2017- Health Related Press Links
- The Guardian- Health apps could be doing more harm than good, warn scientists
- Yahoo Finance- Smartphones are revolutionizing medicine
- Geek Wire- UW ‘genius’ Shwetak Patel works on health monitoring apps for Senosis startup
- Science Business- Health in your pocket: Can a mobile phone make healthcare more fair?
- Independent- Step counting apps probably make people less healthy, leading computer scientist says
- Dailymail- Why fitness apps that advise you to walk 10,000 steps a day could be doing you more harm than good
- The Inquirer- Scientist claims that fitness bands ain’t worth jack
Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health
This workshop will be held in Washington, DC on Monday and Tuesday, December 5th and December 6th. The workshop will bring together leading researchers and policymakers to generate a white paper on the successes of Smart and Pervasive Health research activities, the evolution of relevant computing capabilities (sensing, advanced analytics, networks, data infrastructure, advanced imaging, cyber-physical systems in health, privacy and security of health data and systems), the application of these technical innovations across a range of wellness and healthcare needs (aging, disabilities, chronic disease management and prevention, prosthetics and rehabilitation) and emerging paradigms (e.g., precision medicine and personalized treatment).
Read the Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health draft executive summary here.
Cyber-Social Learning Systems
Over the last decade, we have made great progress establishing scientific and engineering principles for cyber-physical systems (CPS). We are thus now on the threshold of a world of physical systems that are computational and connected at all scales, yielding radical improvements in function and performance.
The next major frontier in research and development is the integration of cyber-physical with complex human and social systems and phenomena at scale. Progress will catalyze the transformation of major existing systems into cyber-social learning systems (CSLS) that continually and rapidly improve in their function and performance in complex, evolving environments. Progress in the science and application of CSLS theory, technology, and practice has the potential to drive revolutionary advances across all sectors of our society, including health, healthcare, transportation, education, housing, justice, defense, and more.
The CCC will convene three workshops in order to develop and validate the propositions that there is a compelling opportunity and need for basic and applied research in cyber-social learning systems; there are communities that can be formed now to conduct this research; and success would enable dramatic improvements in the function and performance of the systems of the future on which our society will rely.
Inclusive Access
The workshop addressed challenges and opportunities surrounding access to online content and services, including rich, non-text content and brought together researchers and stakeholders from the disability community together with researchers from relevant areas of computing research (such as computer vision, or natural language processing) to identify strategic opportunities to solve pervasive accessibility challenges through computing.
BRAIN
On April 2, 2013, President Obama launched the Brain Research though Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative as a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders. The initiative is a joint program with funding through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
December 3-5, 2014 in Washington, DC, the CCC, in conjunction with the NSF held the BRAIN workshop to bring together these two communities to further explore the Interfaces between Brain Science and Computer Science.
Click here for the workshop program PDF and here for a Youtube playlist from the workshop.
Aging In Place
- The need to better understand the target users
- The need for actionable evidence
- The need for information dissemination that bridges the gap between research and practice
- The need for effective trans-disciplinary collaboration
- The need for far-reaching test beds
- The need for patient access to actionable technologies
See the full workshop report for more information.
Below is a list of related resources
Related Resources
Quality of Life Technologies in Supporting Family Caregivers by Czaja et al.
Intelligent Systems for Assessing Aging Changes: Home-Based, Unobtrusive, and Continuous Assessment of Aging by Kaye et al.
Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare by Ko et al.
Sensor Technology to support Aging in Place by Rantz et al.
Generation Smart-phone by Dan Siewiorek
Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions
October 11-12, 2012 in Bethesda, MD, the CCC held the Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions. The goal of this workshop was to bring together these diverse communities in order to foster learning, discussion, and, ultimately, collaboration among them.
Read the workshop report here and the white paper here.
Discovery and Innovation in Health IT
October 29-30, 2009 in San Francisco, the CCC held the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT workshop. The workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology , the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Library of Medicine, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Computing Community Consortium, and the American Medical Informatics Association.
The goals of the workshop were to:
- Explore and define fundamental research challenges and opportunities in healthcare IT in both the near- and long- term;
- Explore and define fundamental research challenges and opportunities in healthcare IT in both the near- and long- term;
- Identify a range of “model” proof-of-concept, integrative systems that might serve as motivating and unifying forces to drive fundamental research in healthcare IT and that might accelerate the transition of research outcomes into products and services;
Read the white paper produced from the workshop here and watch the Youtube playlist from the workshop here.
The Healthcare Task Force operated from 2019-2020.
Task Force Overview: Descendant of the Human Technology Frontier and the Health and Human Computer Interaction task forces, this task force will focus on the usage of technology to improve community and personal health outcomes.
Resources curated for this task force include:
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Resources
- The Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda white paper
- Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy white paper
- AI for Social Good workshop report
- Tom Kalil’s AI for Good paper (draft)
- Videos from the AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good
- Videos from the Artificial Intelligence for Social Good workshop
Health IT Resources
- Response to NITRD draft Federal Health Information Technology Research and Development Strategic Framework
- The Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health workshop report
- The Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich Online Content and Services workshop report
- The New Age of Computing and the Brain workshop report
- The Trans-NIH/Interagency Workshop on the Use and Development of Assistive Technology for the Aging Population and People with Chronic Disabilities white paper
- The Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions workshop report
- The Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery white paper
- The From Data to Predictions and Decisions: Enabling Evidence Based Healthcare white paper
- Quality of Life Technologies in Supporting Family Caregivers
- Intelligent Systems for Assessing Aging Changes: Home-Based, Unobtrusive, and Continuous Assessment of Aging
- Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
- Sensor Technology to support Aging in Place
- Generation Smart-phone
Workforce Development and Education Resources
- Cyber Social Learning Systems workshop series
- Computer-Aided Personalized Education workshop report
- Mathematical Foundations for Social Computing workshop report
- A U.S. Research Roadmap for Human Computation workshop report
- Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education workshop report
- The Importance of Computing Education Research white paper
- White House Report on AI, Automation, and the Economy, CCC blog
- Protecting Humans and Jobs From Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal, New York Times
The Health and Human Computer Interaction Task Force operated from 2017-2019.
Task Force Overview: Descendant of the Human Technology Frontier task force, the Health and Human Computer Interaction task force focused on the usage of technology to improve community health outcomes and to augment human performance, including but not limited to, in the workplace and the classroom.
Resources related to this task force include:
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Resources
- The Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda white paper
- Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy white paper
- AI for Social Good workshop report
- Tom Kalil’s AI for Good paper (draft)
- Videos from the AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good
- Videos from the Artificial Intelligence for Social Good workshop
Health IT Resources
- Response to NITRD draft Federal Health Information Technology Research and Development Strategic Framework
- The Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health workshop report
- The Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich Online Content and Services workshop report
- The New Age of Computing and the Brain workshop report
- The Trans-NIH/Interagency Workshop on the Use and Development of Assistive Technology for the Aging Population and People with Chronic Disabilities white paper
- The Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions workshop report
- The Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery white paper
- The From Data to Predictions and Decisions: Enabling Evidence Based Healthcare white paper
- Quality of Life Technologies in Supporting Family Caregivers
- Intelligent Systems for Assessing Aging Changes: Home-Based, Unobtrusive, and Continuous Assessment of Aging
- Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
- Sensor Technology to support Aging in Place
- Generation Smart-phone
Workforce Development and Education Resources
- Content Generation for Workforce Training workshop report
- Cyber Social Learning Systems workshop series
- Computer-Aided Personalized Education workshop report
- Mathematical Foundations for Social Computing workshop report
- A U.S. Research Roadmap for Human Computation workshop report
- Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education workshop report
- The Importance of Computing Education Research white paper
- White House Report on AI, Automation, and the Economy, CCC blog
- Protecting Humans and Jobs From Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal, New York Times
The Human Technology Frontier Task Force operated from 2017-2018.
Task Force Overview: The Human Technology Frontier task force focuses on the role of technology to augmenting human performance, including but not limited to, in the workplace, in the classroom, and to improve health outcomes.
Resources curated for this task force include:
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Resources
- The Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda white paper
- Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy white paper
- AI for Social Good workshop report
- Tom Kalil’s AI for Good paper (draft)
- Videos from the AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good
- Videos from the Artificial Intelligence for Social Good workshop
Health IT Resources
- Response to NITRD draft Federal Health Information Technology Research and Development Strategic Framework
- The Discovery and Innovation in Smart and Pervasive Health workshop report
- The Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich Online Content and Services workshop report
- The New Age of Computing and the Brain workshop report
- The Trans-NIH/Interagency Workshop on the Use and Development of Assistive Technology for the Aging Population and People with Chronic Disabilities white paper
- The Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions workshop report
- The Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery white paper
- The From Data to Predictions and Decisions: Enabling Evidence Based Healthcare white paper
- Quality of Life Technologies in Supporting Family Caregivers
- Intelligent Systems for Assessing Aging Changes: Home-Based, Unobtrusive, and Continuous Assessment of Aging
- Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
- Sensor Technology to support Aging in Place
- Generation Smart-phone
- Cyber Social Learning Systems workshop series
- Computer-Aided Personalized Education workshop report
- Mathematical Foundations for Social Computing workshop report
- A U.S. Research Roadmap for Human Computation workshop report
- Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education workshop report
- The Importance of Computing Education Research white paper
- White House Report on AI, Automation, and the Economy, CCC blog
- Protecting Humans and Jobs From Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal, New York Times
The Industry Task Force operated from 2015-2016.
Task Force Overview: We need to better understand the computer science research ecosystem in industry and see if more can be done for the entire research community. How can academia engage industry and vice versa?
- The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academia Collaborations white paper
- The slide deck from the 2015 CCC Industry Roundtable
Additional information on these materials can be found below.
Industry and Academia Survey
In spring 2015, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released two short surveys, one for the academic community and the other for industry, to learn about academic-industry interactions. The purpose was to provide a picture of the types of interactions currently taking place, and to identify common barriers to those interactions. In addition, the CRA and CCC were looking for feedback on ways that they could strengthen the relationship between the two.
Industry Roundtable
The CCC also held a community roundtable in the summer of 2015 to start the discussion between academia and industry and explore questions such as:
- Where is the computing field going over the next 10-15 years?
- What are potential opportunities, disruptive trends, and blind spots?
- Are there new questions and directions that deserve greater attention by the research community and new investments in computing research?
- What are the implications for teaching, training of students?
- What is the role of industry in facilitating or supporting computing research?
- We are at a crossroads where more PhD graduating students (and even some faculty) are going to work in industry rather than in academic jobs. What are the implications for the future of the field?
Thirty individuals, mostly from industry but a few from academia, gathered in California for one day to discuss these questions. The introduction slides from the roundtable event can be found here.
A white paper about the roundtable and the academia and industry has been released. Read the white paper here.
The Industry Collaboration Working Group operated from 2018-2020.
Task Force Overview: The Industry Collaboration Working Group led the CCC’s effort to find and communicate best practices to industry-academia and public-private partnerships.
Resources related to this working group include:
- Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research: Final Report – This report considers how emerging trends – such as the dramatic increase in undergraduate computer science enrollment, the increased availability of information technology, and the rising level of interactions between professors and companies – impact the interaction between academia and industry in computing fields. Citation: “Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research”, Shwetak Patel, Jennifer Rexford, Benjamin Zorn, and Greg Morrisett, Industry Working Group, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), arXiv:1903.10375v2 [cs.CY], https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.
10375, June 2019″ - Presentation slides by Ben Zorn on the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research: Final Report to the CRA Board.
- Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research: Interim Report – This report considers how emerging trends – such as the dramatic increase in undergraduate computer science enrollment, the increased availability of information technology, and the rising level of interactions between professors and companies – impact the interaction between academia and industry in computing fields. As this is an interim report, we seek input from all the constituencies that can influence and are affected by these changes including industry, universities, and government agencies and in the roles of students, professors, industry representatives, and administrators.
- The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academia Collaborations white paper – This paper presents some of the current challenges to industry-academic collaboration and offers some best practice to overcome those challenges.
- Challenges to Keeping the Computer Industry Centered in the US white paper (DRAFT) – This draft paper analyzes the risk that the center of the computing industry – currently focused in Silicon Valley – will move outside of the United States and steps the government should take to prevent that.
The Information Integrity and Provenance Task Force operated from 2018-2019.
Task Force Overview: In the increasingly fractured media landscape, this task force concentrated on finding ways to improve users’ awareness of information integrity and sheds light on best practices to combat disinformation online. Material related to this task force includes:
This following video playlist comes from the Security and Privacy for Democracy Panel at the 2017 Computing Research Symposium. Watch more presentations from the symposium here.
Moderator: Kevin Fu, University of Michigan
Panelists:
- Roger Dingledine, Tor Project – Tor: anonymity, anti-censorship, anti-surveillance
- Simson L. Garfinkel, U.S. Census Bureau – Modernizing the Disclosure Avoidance System for the 2020 Census
- Phillipa Gill, University of Massachusetts-Amherst – Improving Democracy with Network Measurement: Challenges and Opportunities
- Daniela Oliveria, University of Florida – Cyber Social Engineering: Why You Should Care and Implications for Democracy
- Dan Wallach, Rice University – Adventures in Electronic Voting Research or Security for Electronic Voting Systems
The Intelligent Infrastructure Task Force operated from 2017-2019.
Task Force Overview: The CCC task force on Intelligent Infrastructure focused on exploring the challenges and opportunities in the intersection between infrastructure, the Internet of Things, and other relevant technologies that are vital to the creation of smart cities and communities. Public materials produced and curated for this task force include:
Intelligent Infrastructure White Papers:
The Intelligent Infrastructure white paper series was a collaboration between the Computing Community Consortium and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA).
- A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
- MOBILITY21: Strategic Investments for Transportation Infrastructure & Technology
- Digital Grid: Transforming the Electric Power Grid into an Innovation Engine for the United States
Research Agenda in Intelligent Infrastructure to Enhance Disaster Management, Community Resilience and Public Safety - City-Scale Intelligent Systems and Platforms
- Intelligent Infrastructure for Smart Agriculture: An Integrated Food, Energy and Water System
- Safety and Security for Intelligent Infrastructure
- A Rural Lens on a Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure
- Privacy in Information-Rich Intelligent Infrastructure
- Smart Wireless Communication is the Cornerstone of Smart Infrastructures
Intelligent Infrastructure for Our Cities and Communities
This video playlist comes from the Intelligent Infrastructure for Our Cities and Communities Panel at the 2017 Computing Research Symposium. Watch more presentations from the symposium here.
Plenary: Michael Dunaway, University of Louisiana at Lafayette – Blueprint for Current and Future Smart Cities
Moderator: Dan Lopresti, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University
Panelists:
- Elizabeth M. Belding, University of California, Santa Barbara – A Rural Lens on Intelligent Infrastructure
- Jennifer Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology – Scaling Smart Cities: Design and Planning for Smart Urban Communities
- Chandra Krintz, University of California, Santa Barbara – UCSB SmartFarm — Turning Data Analytics Into Farm Implements
- Megan S. Ryerson, University of Pennsylvania – Integrating the User Perspective in Planning for Smart Cities
Internet of Things White Papers
- Safety, Security, and Privacy Threats Posed by Accelerating Trends in the Internet of Things
- System Computing Challenges in the Internet of Things
- Smart Communities Internet of Things
Toward a Science of Autonomy for Physical Systems White Papers
- Toward a Science of Autonomy for Physical Systems
- Aerial Earth Science
- Construction
- Defense
- Disaster
- Healthcare
- Paths Toward Autonomy
- Service
- Transportation
Smart Cities
- NITRD Draft “Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan: Exploring Innovation Together”
- CCC Response to NITRD Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan
- Smart Nation initiative in Singapore
- Smart City/Big Data Initiative in Chicago
- Barcelona (with Cisco) “IoE-Driven Smart City Barcelona Initiative Cuts Water Bills, Boosts Parking Revenues, Creates Jobs & More”
- PCAST Report “Technology and the Future of Cities” (February 2016)
Robust and Secure Systems
- NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- IOActive white paper “An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber-Attacks”, 2015,
- FBI Public Service Announcement about IoT and cyber-crime (Sept. 10, 2015)
Related announcements/papers/videos:
- UN ITU (International Telecommunication Union) / GSR (Global Symposium for Regulators) report entitled “GSR discussion paper: Regulation and the Internet of Things”, June 2015
- Silicon Industry Association (SIA) / Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) report on “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action”, August 2015, with specific recommendations for funding areas to accelerate the Internet of Things impact
- Brian Mosley’s CRA blog post about this (9/2/2015)
- NSF/Intel IoT partnership
- McKinsey Report: “Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things”
- FTC report on IoT: Privacy and Security (January 2015)
- 2006 talk by Helen Gill from the National Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
- John Apostolopoulos (Cisco) presentation “New Networked Applications with the Internet of Things: Technology Challenges and Opportunities”
Related Activities
- Extensible Distributed Systems Workshop (NSF and CCC sponsored, January 2015)
- The New Making Renaissance: Programmable Matter and Things (CCC sponsored, June 2015)
- NSF Workshop on Autonomy in CPS and Robotics (September 2015)
The NextGen AI Task Force operated from 2022-2023.
Working Group Overview: The NextGen AI task force was established in fall 2022 to focus on avenues to broaden the impacts of AI by examining and overcoming the limits and pitfalls of the field.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
2020 Quadrennial Papers
Every four years the Computing Research Association, through its subcommittees, publishes a series of white papers called Quadrennial Papers that explore areas and issues around computing research with potential to address national priorities. The white papers attempt to portray a comprehensive picture of the computing research field detailing potential research directions, challenges, and recommendations. Below are the AI related quadrennial papers from 2020:
- Imagine All the People: Citizen Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Research white paper
- Artificial Intelligence at the Edge white paper
- Artificial Intelligence & Cooperation white paper
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Society white paper
- The Rise of AI-Driven Simulators: Building a New Crystal Ball white paper
- Next Wave Artificial Intelligence: Robust, Explainable, Adaptable, Ethical, and Accountable white paper
- Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and High Performance Computing white paper
- Robotics Enabling the Workforce white paper
AI Roadmap
In 2018, the working group led the CCC’s effort to generate an AI Roadmap. The Roadmap activity was chaired by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and President-Elect of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University), this new effort is in support of the Administrations’ efforts in this area, and will bring together academic and industrial researchers and federal agency representatives to help chart a course for needed research in AI, through a series of workshops in the Fall of 2018, resulting in a Roadmap to be produced in the Spring of 2019. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is supporting the effort, and Henry Kautz, Division Director for Intelligent Intelligent Information Systems is helping to coordinate the effort with the CCC. This effort is similar to one of the CCC’s first activities, the Robotics Roadmap, which helped to launch the National Robotics Initiative in 2011 and the subsequent 2016 Robotics Roadmap and NRI 2.0.
Three workshops were held and you can learn more about each workshop on their respective webpages linked below or the Roadmap webpage.
- Workshop 1 – Integrated Intelligence (November 2018)
- Workshop 2 – Interaction (January 2019)
- Workshop 3 – Learning and Robotics (January 2019)
Here is the link to the whole report (117 pages).
Below are links to individual sections:
- Executive Summary (5 pages)
- Introduction (5 pages)
- Major Findings (4 pages)
- Recommendations (22 pages)
- Major Societal Drivers for Future Artificial Intelligence Research (4 pages)
- Core Technical Areas of AI Research Roadmap
- A Research Roadmap for Integrated Intelligence (19 pages)
- A Research Roadmap for Meaningful Interaction (27 pages)
- A Research Roadmap for Self-Aware Learning (26 pages)
- Conclusions (1 pages)
- Appendices (participants and contributors; 2 pages)
Additional Resources
Below are some CCC materials produced by the now-retired AI task force and curated for this working group, which include:
- AI for Social Good workshop report
- Tom Kalil’s AI for Good paper (draft)
- Videos from the AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good
- Advances in Artificial Intelligence Require Progress Across all of Computer Science white paper
- Videos from the Artificial Intelligence for Social Good workshop
- Next Generation Robotics white paper
- Robotics white paper
- CCC Blog post, “Thoughts from White House Frontier’s Conference and the National AI R&D Strategic Plan“
- CCC Blog post, “White House OSTP Report- Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence“
- CCC Blog post, “World’s Largest Technology Companies Create Historic Partnership on AI“
- CCC Blog post, “One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence“
- CCC Blog post, “Artificial Intelligence for Social Good“
Artificial Intelligence Videos:
The video playlist below features the videos from AI and Amplifying Human Abilities Plenary and Panel at the 2017 Computing Research Symposium. Details about the speakers are below.
Plenary: Thad Starner, Georgia Tech/Google’s Glass – Augmenting Intellect through Wearables and Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: Beth Mynatt, CCC Chair/Georgia Tech
Panelists:
- Brenna Argall, Northwestern University – Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
- Jeffrey P. Bingham, Carnegie Mellon University – Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence for Accessibility
- Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins University – Humans and Machine Working Together to Spot Diseases Faster
- Cliff Young, Google Brain Team – Deep Learning, Special-Purpose Hardware, and Some Hard Problems
The following playlist features videos from the AAAI Symposium for AI for Social Good.
The following playlist features videos from the workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good.
Science and Policy Materials on AI:
NITRD – In October 2016, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program released the The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan which identifies the strategies and priorities for Federally-funded AI research.
OSTP – In October 2016,the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published the Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence report, which “surveys the current state of AI, its existing and potential applications, and the questions that are raised for society and public policy by progress in AI. The report also makes recommendations for specific further actions by Federal agencies and other actors.”
White House OSTP Request for Information (RFI) for AI – In June 2016, OSTP announced a new Request for Information (RFI) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), to solicit feedback on how the United States can best prepare for the future of AI. According to the OSTP Blog, they “received 161 responses from a range of stakeholders, including individuals, academics and researchers, non-profit organizations, and industry.” All of the responses are now public and can be found here. The CCC’s response can be found here.
AI-related Events:
OSTP Workshop Series – In May, 2016 OSTP announced four workshops (later a fifth was added) surrounding the future of artificial intelligence to explore the opportunities and challenges that AI presents.
- Artificial Intelligence for Social Good – The CCC co-hosted the second OSTP AI Workshop, Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, with OSTP and AAAI. In this workshop, we discussed the successful deployments and the potential use of AI in various topics that are essential for social good, including but not limited to urban computing, health, environmental sustainability, and public welfare. You can learn more about the workshop here.
- Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy – The first workshop in the series was co-hosted by the University of Washington School of Law, the White House, and UW’s Tech Policy Lab, “the event places leading artificial intelligence experts from academia and industry in conversation with government officials interested in developing a wise and effective policy framework for this increasingly important technology.”
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence – The third workshop, co-hosted by Stanford University and OSTP, featured “leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers will discuss the most impactful research topics in AI and highlight the challenges and potentials of artificial intelligence.”
- Workshop on Safety and Control for Artificial Intelligence – The fourth workshop was co-hosted by Carnegie Mellon University and OSTP and included “keynote talks and panel discussions that explore the potential future of AI and AI applications, the emerging technical means for constructing safe and secure systems, how safety might be assured, and how we can make progress on the challenges of safety and control for AI.”
- The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term – The fifth workshop in the series was co-hosted by the NYU Information Law Institute and the White House generated “a foundational discussion about the role of AI in social and economic systems.”
One Hundred Year Study on AI – “The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, or AI100, is a 100-year effort to study and anticipate how the effects of artificial intelligence will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live and play” and is the brainchild of task force co-chair Eric Horvitz. Learn more about the One Hundred Year Study here and view the 2016 report here.
AAAI Symposium on AI for Social Good – In 2016, the CCC co-sponsored a workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good with AAAI and OSTP. In order to further the discussion of the benefits of AI to society, the CCC will co-sponsor the AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on AI for Social Good at Stanford University, March 27-29. This symposium will focus on the promise of AI across multiple sectors of society. Learn more about the Symposium here.
Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI – In November 2016, the CCC co-sponsored a AAAI Symposium that brought together researchers in relevant areas of artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, causal inference, knowledge representation and inference, planning, decision making, human computer interaction, distributed problem solving, natural language processing, multi-agent systems, semantic web, information integration, scientific workflows), high performance data and computing infrastructures and services, and selected application areas (e.g., life sciences, learning sciences, health sciences, social sciences, food energy and water nexus) to discuss progress on, and articulate a research agenda aimed at addressing, the AI grand challenge of accelerating science. A workshop report is in progress.
Other Resources:
Partnership on AI – In September, 2016 Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft “announced that they will create a non-profit organization that will work to advance public understanding of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field. Academics, non-profits, and specialists in policy and ethics will be invited to join the Board of the organization, named the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI).” You can read the full press release here.
2016 Robotics Roadmap – In 2009, the CCC released A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (Robotics Roadmap). The Robotics Roadmap explored the capacity of robotics to act as a key economic enabler, specifically in the areas of manufacturing, healthcare, and in the service industry, 5, 10, and 15 years into the future and was influential in developing 2011’s National Robotics Initiative (NRI). An updated version of the Robotics Roadmap was released in November, 2016 and it expands on the topics discussed in the 2009 roadmap as well as addressing the areas of public safety, earth science, and workforce develop. You can read the full 2016 roadmap here.
Press Articles and Thought Pieces:
The Terminator and the Washing Machine, New York Times
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence is Helping to Save the World, Erin Biba, Freelance Science Journalist
The Terminator and the Washing Machine, New York Times Video on the limitations of AI
Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Protecting Humans and Jobs From Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal, New York Times
How the Scary Potential of AI Brought Tech Competitors Together, Mashable
Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI, Xconomy
The Post Moore’s Law Computing Task force operated from 2017-2018.
Task Force Overview: The Post Moore’s Law Computing task force leads activities to address the future of computing as we reach the limit of Moore’s Law – the observable trend that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention, leading to advancements in digital electronics. In order to move past the era of Moore’s law, new computational tools and systems must be develop
Resources curated for this task force include:
- The Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing white paper
- Challenges to Keeping the Computer Industry Centered in the US white paper (draft)
- The 21st Century Computer Architecture in 2012 white paper
- The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? white paper
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop report
- Workshops on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA) Challenges and Opportunities for 2025 and Beyond workshop report
Workshops related to this task force include:
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop
- Extreme Scale Design Automation workshop series
- 2025 Roundtable
The Privacy and Fairness Task Force operated from 2015-2018.
Task Force Overview: This task force focused on the domains of privacy and fairness in an interconnected and big-data driven world. The FADE task force continues to focus on a similar area of computer science. Public materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- The Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights white paper
- The Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis for the Federal Statistical Agencies white paper
- The Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community white paper
- The Privacy by Design – State of Research and Practice workshop report
- The Privacy by Design – Privacy Enabling Design workshop report
- The Privacy by Design – Engineering Privacy workshop report
- BIG DATA: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values
- Report to the President on Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective
The CCC’s Privacy-related workshops include:
- Fair Representations and Fair Interactive Learning, March 18-19, 2018
- Sociotechnical Cybersecurity workshop series, 2016-2017
- Privacy by Design Workshop Series, 2015-2016
Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community
In early 2015, the CCC commissioned members of the privacy research community to generate a short report to help guide strategic thinking in this space. The effort aimed to complement and synthesize other recent documents, including the White House BIG DATA: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values Report and the Report to the President on Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective. In May, the CCC released the resultant community report, Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community.
The editors of the paper describe a research agenda that seeks to lead the community to a state where:
- We have a rigorous science of privacy that applies across different application domains;
- We understand the needs, expectations, and incentives of the humans who use information systems, and can design systems that are sensitive to them;
- Privacy technology research and privacy policy objectives are informed by and aligned with each other; and
- We can engineer systems that enable us to enjoy both privacy and the benefits of data use to the maximum extent possible, showing that the tradeoff between the two can be much less stark than our current approaches offer
To reach this state, the editors believe that the research strategy needs to:
- Emphasize understanding, defining, and measuring the privacy of information systems
- Recognize and support the many stages and dimensions of privacy research
- Enable interdisciplinary research strategies
- Foster a technology-policy dialogue
Privacy by Design Workshops
The CCC also launched a series of four Privacy by Design workshops in 2015. The workshops are aimed at identifying a shared research vision to support the practice of privacy-by-design. They convene both practitioners with direct experience of the challenges in implementing privacy-by-design from a range of fields—software developers, privacy engineers, usability and interaction designers, chief privacy officers—and researchers from an equally broad range of disciplines.
Privacy by Design- State of Research and PracticeFebruary 5-6, 2015
Regulators, academics and industry have called for privacy-by-design as a way to address growing privacy concerns with rapidly developing technology. The public and private sector are responding — hiring privacy engineers to join the ranks of privacy-oriented professionals, often working under the guidance of a chief privacy officer. Yet, implementing concepts of privacy through design is an open challenge and research area. There is a limited, disparate, and fragmented body of research affirmatively positioned as privacy-by-design.
Privacy by Design- Privacy Enabling Design
May 7-8, 2015
This workshop covered the latest research results in user interface design, usability and human factors including studies of user behavior and recent findings in privacy displays, nudging, privacy preference modeling, to name a few. While regulators attempt to drive privacy-by-design, there is little evidence that the class of professionals who consider themselves designers are engaged in the conversation.
Privacy by Design- Engineering Privacy
August 31-September 1, 2015
This workshop will survey emerging challenges in engineering privacy from applications of cryptographic protocols and privacy-preserving databases, to formal notations and programming languages in identity management, de-identification, and software specification. This survey will review known challenges, such as understanding privacy policies (e.g., privacy laws in regulated sectors like healthcare and finance; privacy promises in self-regulated sectors like Web services) in computational terms so that tools can be developed to help with their enforcement. The workshop will raise awareness of how well these results address the concepts and open problems identified in workshop #2, as well as serve to identify open research questions.
Privacy by Design- Catalyzing Privacy by Design
January 6-8, 2015
This workshop reviewed the lessons from workshops #1-3 and examine how existing regulatory models, along with other factors, shape organizations’ understanding of privacy problems, approaches, and solutions. Building on workshop-generated insights on the strengths and limitations of current approaches—in terms of concepts, incentives, actors—the workshop considered how well regulatory models respond to privacy-by-design challenges, and identify open research questions. A goal of the overall project was to broaden the lens through which privacy-by-design is viewed by the research community—positioning technical design along side theoretical/conceptual, organizational, and regulatory design questions. Thus, gaining some understanding of the forces that drive the choice of methods, tools, and approaches is a core goal of engagement with industrial innovators. Building on insights from earlier workshops we identified open research questions about the relationship between regulatory form and other external and internal features of the privacy field, and the expression of privacy in firm practice.
The Research Ecosystem Working Group operated from 2022-2023.
The Security, Integrity and Trust Task Force operated from 2021-2022.
Working Group Overview: This task force was created in fall 2021 and focuses on topics related to cybersecurity, privacy, and information provenance.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
Assured Autonomy Workshop Report
Autonomy is becoming mainstream. The anticipation is that cyber-physical-human systems and services enabled by autonomy will improve the future work conditions and the quality of life for humans and create new business models. To name a few examples, autonomous cars are test-driven on public streets by numerous companies, teams of robots that share the workspace with humans are showcased at airports and hospitals, new civilian and defense applications for drones surface by the day, and more and more human responsibilities in critical applications, including but not limited to infrastructure networks and medical diagnostics and hospital management, are shared with autonomous decision-makers.
On the other hand, a number of looming challenges—whether autonomous systems are safe and secure, whether we can assure their safety and security, whether humans will ever trust and work with them, whether we can integrate them at scale and whether we can do all these economically—overshadow the popular belief that a revolution driven by autonomy is imminent.
Given the already immense interest and investment in autonomy, we argue that it is exactly the right time to organize an international workshop to facilitate a dialogue and increase awareness among the stakeholders in the industry, government and academia.
This series of three workshops aimed to help create a unified understanding of the goals for assured autonomy and the research trends as well as near-term, mid-term and long-term research needs to support these goals.
Learn more about the Assured Autonomy workshop series on the series webpage and read the workshop report here.
2020 Quadrennial Papers
Every four years the Computing Research Association, through its subcommittees, publishes a series of white papers called Quadrennial Papers that explore areas and issues around computing research with potential to address national priorities. The white papers attempt to portray a comprehensive picture of the computing research field detailing potential research directions, challenges, and recommendations. Below are the security and privacy related quadrennial papers from 2020:
- An Agenda for Disinformation Research white paper
- Modernizing Data Control: Making Personal Digital Data Mutually Beneficial for Citizens and Industry white paper
- A Research Ecosystem for Secure Computing white paper
- Post Quantum Cryptography: Readiness Challenges and the Approaching Storm white paper
5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap
In March 2020 the CCC released the 5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap white paper by CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), Syed Rafiul Hussain (Purdue University), and Omar Chowdhury (University of Iowa).
Abstract: Cellular networks represent a critical infrastructure and their security is thus crucial. 5G – the latest generation of cellular networks – combines different technologies to increase capacity, reduce latency, and save energy. Due to its complexity and scale, however, ensuring its security is extremely challenging. In this white paper, we outline recent approaches supporting systematic analyses of 4G LTE and 5G protocols and their related defenses and introduce an initial security and privacy roadmap, covering different research challenges, including formal and comprehensive analyses of cellular protocols as defined by the standardization groups, verification of the software implementing the protocols, the design of robust defenses, and application and device security.
For citation use: Bertino E., Hussain S. R., & Chowdhury O. (2020) 5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap https://cra.org/ccc/resources/ccc-led-whitepapers/
Internet of Things White Papers
Other resources
Robust and Secure Systems
- NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- IOActive white paper “An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber-Attacks”, 2015,
- FBI Public Service Announcement about IoT and cyber-crime (Sept. 10, 2015)
Related announcements/papers/videos:
- UN ITU (International Telecommunication Union) / GSR (Global Symposium for Regulators) report entitled “GSR discussion paper: Regulation and the Internet of Things”, June 2015
- Silicon Industry Association (SIA) / Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) report on “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action”, August 2015, with specific recommendations for funding areas to accelerate the Internet of Things impact
- Brian Mosley’s CRA blog post about this (9/2/2015)
- NSF/Intel IoT partnership
- McKinsey Report: “Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things”
- FTC report on IoT: Privacy and Security (January 2015)
- 2006 talk by Helen Gill from the National Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
- John Apostolopoulos (Cisco) presentation “New Networked Applications with the Internet of Things: Technology Challenges and Opportunities”
Related Activities
The Socio Technical Resilience Task Force operated from 2022-2023.
Task force overview: Created in fall 2022, this task force will focus on the role of the interplay between technology and humans (from individuals to society) in creating resilient systems. It will investigate three main questions: (i) Resilience of what? (ii) Resilience to what? (iii) Resilience by which means?
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include
Assured Autonomy Workshop Report
Autonomy is becoming mainstream. The anticipation is that cyber-physical-human systems and services enabled by autonomy will improve the future work conditions and the quality of life for humans and create new business models. To name a few examples, autonomous cars are test-driven on public streets by numerous companies, teams of robots that share the workspace with humans are showcased at airports and hospitals, new civilian and defense applications for drones surface by the day, and more and more human responsibilities in critical applications, including but not limited to infrastructure networks and medical diagnostics and hospital management, are shared with autonomous decision-makers.
On the other hand, a number of looming challenges—whether autonomous systems are safe and secure, whether we can assure their safety and security, whether humans will ever trust and work with them, whether we can integrate them at scale and whether we can do all these economically—overshadow the popular belief that a revolution driven by autonomy is imminent.
Given the already immense interest and investment in autonomy, we argue that it is exactly the right time to organize an international workshop to facilitate a dialogue and increase awareness among the stakeholders in the industry, government and academia.
This series of three workshops aimed to help create a unified understanding of the goals for assured autonomy and the research trends as well as near-term, mid-term and long-term research needs to support these goals.
Learn more about the Assured Autonomy workshop series on the series webpage and read the workshop report here.
2020 Quadrennial Papers
Every four years the Computing Research Association, through its subcommittees, publishes a series of white papers called Quadrennial Papers that explore areas and issues around computing research with potential to address national priorities. The white papers attempt to portray a comprehensive picture of the computing research field detailing potential research directions, challenges, and recommendations. Below are the security and privacy related quadrennial papers from 2020:
- An Agenda for Disinformation Research white paper
- Modernizing Data Control: Making Personal Digital Data Mutually Beneficial for Citizens and Industry white paper
- A Research Ecosystem for Secure Computing white paper
- Post Quantum Cryptography: Readiness Challenges and the Approaching Storm white paper
5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap
Abstract: Cellular networks represent a critical infrastructure and their security is thus crucial. 5G – the latest generation of cellular networks – combines different technologies to increase capacity, reduce latency, and save energy. Due to its complexity and scale, however, ensuring its security is extremely challenging. In this white paper, we outline recent approaches supporting systematic analyses of 4G LTE and 5G protocols and their related defenses and introduce an initial security and privacy roadmap, covering different research challenges, including formal and comprehensive analyses of cellular protocols as defined by the standardization groups, verification of the software implementing the protocols, the design of robust defenses, and application and device security.
For citation use: Bertino E., Hussain S. R., & Chowdhury O. (2020) 5G Security and Privacy – A Research Roadmap https://cra.org/ccc/resources/ccc-led-whitepapers/
Internet of Things White Papers
Other resources
- NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
- IOActive white paper “An Emerging US (and World) Threat: Cities Wide Open to Cyber-Attacks”, 2015,
- FBI Public Service Announcement about IoT and cyber-crime (Sept. 10, 2015)
Related announcements/papers/videos:
- UN ITU (International Telecommunication Union) / GSR (Global Symposium for Regulators) report entitled “GSR discussion paper: Regulation and the Internet of Things”, June 2015
- Silicon Industry Association (SIA) / Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) report on “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action”, August 2015, with specific recommendations for funding areas to accelerate the Internet of Things impact
- Brian Mosley’s CRA blog post about this (9/2/2015)
- NSF/Intel IoT partnership
- McKinsey Report: “Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things”
- FTC report on IoT: Privacy and Security (January 2015)
- 2006 talk by Helen Gill from the National Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
- John Apostolopoulos (Cisco) presentation “New Networked Applications with the Internet of Things: Technology Challenges and Opportunities”
Related Activities
The Post Moore’s Law Computing Task force operated from 2018-2020.
Task Force Overview: The Systems and Architecture task force leads activities to address the future of computing systems and architecture in order to achieve major goals such as overcoming the end of Moore’s Law and improving high performance computing systems.
Resources curated for this task force include:
- Thermodynamic Computing workshop report
- The Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing white paper
- Challenges to Keeping the Computer Industry Centered in the US white paper (draft)
- The 21st Century Computer Architecture in 2012 white paper
- The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? white paper
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop report
- Workshops on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA) Challenges and Opportunities for 2025 and Beyond workshop report
Workshops related to this task force include:
- Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop
- Thermodynamic Computing workshop
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop
- Extreme Scale Design Automation workshop series
- 2025 Roundtable
The Unique Ways to Compute operated from 2022-2023.
Task force overview: The Unique Ways to Compute leads activities related to the development of future computing architecture and systems, in order to achieve major goals such as overcoming the end of Moore’s Law and improving high performance computing systems.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and High Performance Computing white paper
- Thermodynamic Computing workshop report
- The Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing white paper
- Challenges to Keeping the Computer Industry Centered in the US white paper (draft)
- The 21st Century Computer Architecture in 2012 white paper
- The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? white paper
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop report
- Workshops on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA) Challenges and Opportunities for 2025 and Beyond workshop report
Workshops related to this task force include:
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- Physics & Engineering Issues in Adiabatic/Reversible Classical Computing workshop
- Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop
- Thermodynamic Computing workshop
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop
- Extreme Scale Design Automation workshop series
- 2025 Roundtable
The Weird Ways to Compute Task Force operated from 2021-2022.
Working Group Overview: The Weird Ways to Compute task force was created in fall 2021 to lead activities related to the development of future computing architecture and systems, in order to achieve major goals such as overcoming the end of Moore’s Law and improving high performance computing systems.
CCC materials produced and curated for this task force include:
- Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and High Performance Computing white paper
- Thermodynamic Computing workshop report
- The Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing white paper
- Challenges to Keeping the Computer Industry Centered in the US white paper (draft)
- The 21st Century Computer Architecture in 2012 white paper
- The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? white paper
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop report
- Workshops on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA) Challenges and Opportunities for 2025 and Beyond workshop report
Workshops related to this task force include:
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- Physics & Engineering Issues in Adiabatic/Reversible Classical Computing workshop
- Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop
- Thermodynamic Computing workshop
- Nanotechnology-Inspired Information Processing Systems workshop
- Extreme Scale Design Automation workshop series
- 2025 Roundtable
