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CRA/CCC Announces CIFellows 2021 Program

In: April 2021, Vol. 33/No. 4 /

The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) are pleased to announce a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) cohort for 2021. This program aims to provide career-enhancing bridge experiences for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates in computing to support the computing research pipeline. The CIFellows program is open to researchers whose work falls under the umbrella of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate.

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Pandemic Informatics: Vaccine Distribution, Logistics, and Prioritization

By: CCC StaffIn: April 2021, Vol. 33/No. 4 /

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.

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CIFellows Spotlight: Improving System Efficiency and Reliability with Causal Learning

By: CCC StaffIn: April 2021, Vol. 33/No. 4 /

CCC is excited to announce the new website feature, “CIFellows Spotlight”, which will highlight the work of the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) going forward.

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CCC Releases Additional Quadrennial Papers on Smart Technologies for Older Adults and the Integration of Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing with AI and IoT

By: CCC StaffIn: April 2021, Vol. 33/No. 4 /

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.”

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CCC Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery

By: CCC StaffIn: March 2021, Vol. 33/No. 3 /

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).

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I2O PostDoc Fellowship: Deadline March 1

By: CCC StaffIn: February 2021, Vol. 33/No.2 /

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is broadening its commitment to young scientists through a new Information Innovation Office (I2O) PostDoc Fellowship Program focused on postdoctoral researchers in the field of computer science with grants sized to support each fellow for up to two years.

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CCC Council Member Melanie Mitchell on if AI can Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight

By: CCC StaffIn: February 2021, Vol. 33/No.2 /

Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University was recently interviewed on the Medscape podcast, Medicine and the Machine in an episode titled ‘Can AI Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight?”.

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CCC Council Member Maria Gini Featured in University of Minnesota Article: Designing the Next Generation of Robots

By: CCC StaffIn: February 2021, Vol. 33/No.2 /

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Distinguished Professor of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Maria Gini was recently featured in an article highlighting the work of U of M’s Minnesota Robotics Institute (MnRI).

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CCC Council Member Chad Jenkins in NYT Article: Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?

By: CCC StaffIn: January 2021, Vol. 33/No.1 /

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.”

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