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CCC White Paper- Advances in Artificial Intelligence Require Progress Across all of Computer Science

In: March 2017, Vol. 29/No.3 /

Many recent symposia and workshops have highlighted both the progress and opportunities for AI and its potential to contribute to new products, services, and experiences. However, we should not lose sight of the fact that fielding real-world systems that realize these innovations will also drive significant advances in virtually all areas of computing, including areas that are not traditionally recognized as being important to AI research and development. To highlight these synergies, the CCC AI and Robotics Task Force released a white paper for the community.

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2016 Robotics Roadmap and the National Robotics Initiative 2.0

By: Maja Matarić, CCC council member and contributor to the Robotics Roadmaps In: February 2017, Vol. 29/No.2 /

In 2009, the CCC published a report, A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (a.k.a. the Robotics Roadmap), which explored the capacity of robotics to act as a key economic enabler, specifically in the areas of manufacturing, healthcare, and the service industry, 5, 10, and 15 years into the future.

An updated version of the Robotics Roadmap was released in November 2016; it expands on the topics discussed in the 2009 roadmap and addresses the areas of public safety, earth science, and workforce development. It also emphasizes robotics as a validated STEM education and career recruitment tool and calls for additional research in this promising area. This direction is particularly important as it not only aids in training the 21^st century workforce, but also helps to address concerns about job loss to automation.

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White House Report on Ensuring Long-Term U.S. Leadership in Semiconductors

By: CCC Vice Chair, CCC Executive Council Member and University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Mark D. Hill In: February 2017, Vol. 29/No.2 /

In December, the US White House released Ensuring Long-Term U.S. Leadership in Semiconductors. The report recognizes the importance of semiconductors—and semiconductor leadership—to modern life in a competitive world. While much of the report deals with policy issues—see a recent CRA Policy blog post—I focus on some of the technical recommendations in Chapter 4.

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OSTP Exit Memo

By: CCC Chair Beth Mynatt, CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill, CCC Council Member Debra J. Richardson, and CCC Director Ann DrobnisIn: February 2017, Vol. 29/No.2 /

In January, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released an Exit Memo that highlights the impact that the administration has had in “reinvigorating the American scientific technological enterprise.” Dr. John Holdren, Director of OSTP, and Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, offer actions that are needed in the near term to broaden participation in science, technology, and innovation to continue driving prosperity.

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Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members

By: Helen Wright, CCC senior program associateIn: January 2017, Vol. 29/No.1 /

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do so, the CCC needs truly visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work hard to see things to completion. Please help the computing community by nominating such people for the Council.

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Microsoft Researchers on What to Expect in 2017 and 2027

By: Ben Zorn, Microsoft ResearchIn: January 2017, Vol. 29/No.1 /

On the Microsoft Blog, 17 outstanding researchers from all parts of computer science share their vision of how computational thinking will transform our world in the next year and the next decade. Computer technology has delivered capabilities and benefits that were unimaginable 20 years ago – read about the deep insights these researchers have on how it will transform our world in the next 10 years.
Check out a few highlights, including one from CRA Board Member Kathryn S. McKinley.

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Arch2030: A Vision of Computer Architecture Research over the Next 15 Years

By: Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin-MadisonIn: January 2017, Vol. 29/No.1 /

In June 2016, I blogged about the successful Architecture 2030 Visioning Workshop, organized by Luis Ceze of the University of Washington and Thomas Wenisch of the University of Michigan, and partially sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) in conjunction with ISCA’16 in Seoul, South Korea. Recently CCC released the final report Arch2030: A Vision of Computer Architecture Research over the Next 15 Years with the endorsement of more forty research leaders in the field. Key findings are in this article.

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Thoughts from White House Frontier’s Conference and the National AI R&D Strategic Plan

By: CCC Staff, Greg Hager, CCC Past Chair and Johns Hopkins University, and Beth Mynatt, CCC Chair, Georgia TechIn: November 2016, Vol. 28/No.10 /

Last month, the President hosted the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, an event that was co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University and attended by hundreds of scientific leaders in our community.

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair and Director attended the event, which had many speakers from previous CCC events.

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South Big Data Hub DataStart Highlights

By: Khari Douglas, CCC Program AssociateIn: November 2016, Vol. 28/No.10 /

As a result of the CCC / CRA Industry Academic Survey, conducted in spring of 2015 and the CCC Industry Roundtable Discussion held on July 24, 2015, the CCC partnered with the four NSF-sponsored Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) for a program on industry-academic collaboration. Each Hub is charged with addressing regional specific big data challenges. Areas of emphasis for the South BD hub include coastal hazards, industrial big data, and health analytics, among others.

As one of its CCC-sponsored activities, the South BD Hub ran the DataStart internship program, which paired graduate students from the South Regional Innovation Hub with data-related startup companies for three months.

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World’s Largest Technology Companies Create Historic Partnership on AI

By: Greg Hager, CCC Past Chair and Johns Hopkins University, with contributions from Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research and a past President of AAAIIn: November 2016, Vol. 28/No.10 /

In a recent blog post, we summarized the report of an academic/industry roundtable, which, among other recommendations, advocated for mechanisms to support long-term, strategic, and sustained conversation between academics and industry representatives. Recently, one such mechanism came into being with the announcement of the Partnership on AI by a consortium consisting of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and IBM.

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The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations

By: Helen Wright, CCC senior program associateIn: October 2016, Vol. 28/No.9 /

The Computing Community Consortium convened a round-table of industry and academic participants in July 2015 to better understand the landscape of industry-academic interaction, and to discuss possible actions that might be taken to enhance those interactions. This discussion was preceded by a survey sent to academics and industry representatives in Spring of 2015. This survey was designed to provide some current information about the perceptions of the value of academic/industry interaction as well as trends and barriers.

The resulting report, The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations, touches on topics that were discussion during the round-table as well as in the survey.

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