Tag Archive: CCC Blog
Items from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog.
The CCC responded to the RFI on behalf of the community. An overarching theme of the CCC response is that systems are now ubiquitous, and need to be considered as socio-technical systems that must be secured, not simply technical systems.
Apply to come to the seventh Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September 2019!
The CCC’s Nominating Subcommittee invites nominations (including self-nominations) for members to serve on the CCC Council for the next three years, beginning July 1, 2019.
There is a conundrum between statistical access to data and privacy. The computing community has been working on this problem for years and came up with differential privacy as a solution, which is being implemented in the 2020 census.
The CCC responded to NITRD NCO’s “RFI on Update to the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan.” Their response was then endorsed by a number of societies in a corresponding statement.
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has recently released a workshop report from the May 2018 workshop Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role.
The goal of this Dear Colleague Letter, which specifically mentions the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) AI Roadmap, is to encourage the submission of EAGERs on understanding the social challenges arising from AI technology and enable scientific contribute to overcoming them.
CCC will hold a workshop from January 3rd to 5th, 2019 in Hawaii to create a vision for thermodynamic computing, a statement of research needs, and a summary of the current state of understanding of this new area. Workshop attendance will be by invitation only and travel expenses will be available for select participants. We seek short white papers to help create the agenda for the workshop and select attendees.
We created a new repository of the CCC’s work categorized by sub-areas.
Sunday, July 1st, was the start of a new CCC term. We welcomed four new council members and Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Chair and Liz Bradley from the University of Colorado-Boulder as Vice Chair.
There are a number of surprising security benefits of end-to-end formal proofs. The greatest payoff may be in nudges toward simpler system design.
