CCC Announces New Council Members Starting July 2021
CRA, in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council.
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Tag Archive: CCC Blog
Items from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog.
National Discovery Cloud
CCC is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper, A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness in the New Era of 21st Century Digital Transformation, led by Ian Foster with significant support from Daniel Lopresti, Bill Gropp, Mark D. Hill, and Katie Schuman.
Pandemic Informatics: Variants of Concern
Second addendum to the CRA and CCC Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness, and Resilience quadrennial paper on variants of concern (VOC).
Pandemic Informatics: Vaccine Distribution, Logistics, and Prioritization
The pandemic is still ongoing but we are facing a new and different set of challenges that are both surprising and yet also somehow predictable. The authors of the Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness, and Resilience paper have produced a March 22nd, 2021 Addendum to address current issues.
CIFellows Spotlight: Improving System Efficiency and Reliability with Causal Learning
CCC is excited to announce the new website feature, “CIFellows Spotlight”, which will highlight the work of the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) going forward.
CCC Releases Additional Quadrennial Papers on Smart Technologies for Older Adults and the Integration of Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing with AI and IoT
As a continuation of our 2020 series, CCC has released two more papers titled: “Taking Stock of the Present and Future of Smart Technologies for Older Adults and Caregivers” and “Imagine All the People: Citizen Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Research.”
CCC Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
AI for Good Global Summit hosted a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour today and featured Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss (Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University).
CCC Council Member Chad Jenkins in NYT Article: Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?
Many of today’s AI systems have biases against people of color and the broader diversity beyond the white, male, affluent, and able-bodied developers of most computer and robot systems. We need to be sure that when autonomous robots make their decisions, the designer’s flaws and judgments are not “baked in.”
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
Nominate outstanding colleagues for the CCC Council.
CCC 2020 Highlights
Some highlights from the year.
Architecture Innovation Accelerates Artificial Intelligence
David A. Patterson, who received the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award “for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry,” shared a presentation titled Architecture Innovation Accelerates Artificial Intelligence at the first day of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF).
