Tag Archive: CCC

Articles relevant to the Computing Community Consortium.

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Brain Science and Computer Science: Where Discovery Meets Invention


Contributions to this article were made by Gregory Hager, chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and Martin Weiner, AAAS Science & Technology policy fellow in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate at NSF.

Recently, the organizers of the CCC workshop on Research Interfaces between Brain Science and Computer Science were invited to present their workshop report at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Jack Gallant (University of California, Berkeley), Polina Golland (MIT), and Gregory Hager (CCC chair, Johns Hopkins University) gave the presentation and led surrounding discussions.

CCC White Paper: The Importance of Computing Education Research


The time is now for computer science education!

With the shifting economy, educators are increasingly recognizing computer science as a new basic requirement. In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said that “helping students learn to write computer code” is among his goals for the year ahead.

Jim Kurose, the assistant director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) released a letter to the community acknowledging the excitement in the community, but also noting to “please stay tuned as the Administration announces new steps in the coming weeks to support efforts to expand access to computer science education across the Nation.”

CCC White Paper: Smart Communities Internet of Things


The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing in the Physical World Task Force has just released another community white paper on Smart Communities Internet of Things.

The task force, led by CCC Council Member Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research and Shwetak Patel from University of Washington, is looking at core research challenges that the Internet of Things (IoT) presents. This white paper, led by Klara Nahnahrstedt from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, highlights the benefits and challenges of cybertechnologies within “Smart Cities,” especially the IoT for smart communities, which means considering the benefits and challenges of IoT cybertechnologies on joint smart cities’ physical infrastructures and their human stakeholders.

Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members


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 its Council. The CCC is also accepting proposals for visioning activities.

Computer-Aided Personalized Education Visioning Workshop


On November 12th and 13th the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held a visioning workshop on Computer-Aided Personalized Education (CAPE) in Washington, DC to address these challenges. The workshop brought together more than 50 researchers from academia, industry, and the government in order to foster new collaborations among participants from diverse disciplines and to suggest new research directions in computer-aided personalized education.

CCC White Paper: Systems Computing Challenges in the Internet of Things


The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC’s) Computing in the Physical World task force has just released a community white paper on Systems Computing Challenges in the Internet of Things. The task force, led by CCC Council Member Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research, is looking at the core research challenges presented by the Internet of Things (IoT). This white paper highlights these challenges and provides recommendations that will help address inadequacies in existing systems, practices, tools, and policies.

CCC Releases White Paper in Support of White House Grand Challenge


On October 20, as part of the rollout of the National Strategic Computing Initiative, the White House announced its nanotechnology-inspired Grand Challenge to develop transformational computing capabilities by combining innovations in multiple scientific disciplines. The grand challenge’s goal:

Create a new type of computer that can proactively interpret and learn from data, solve unfamiliar problems using what it has learned, and operate with the energy efficiency of the human brain.

Theoretical Foundations for Social Computing Workshop


Social computing encompasses the mechanisms through which people interact with computational systems like crowdsourcing markets, ranking and recommendation systems, online prediction markets, citizen science projects, and collaboratively edited wikis. Humans are active participants in these systems, making choices that determine the systems’ input and, therefore, its output. The output of these systems can be viewed as a joint computation between humans and machines, and can be richer than what either could produce alone.

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NSF Workshop to Identify Interdisciplinary Data Science Approaches and Challenges to Enhance Understanding of Interactions of Food Systems with Energy and Water Systems


The following is a special contribution to this blog from the organizing committee of the National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop to Identify Interdisciplinary Data Science Approaches and Challenges to Enhance Understanding of Interactions of Food Systems with Energy and Water Systems — held during October 5-6, 2015 at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Waterfront Centre in Washington, D.C. This post summarizes some of the highlights of the workshop.

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NSF/CISE Continues to Lead Efforts to Spur Data Science Innovation


The Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) program continues and scales up the innovation activities initiated by the White House in 2012 with the National Big Data Research and Development Initiative. The overarching vision for the network of BD Hubs is to create an agile and sustainable national Big Data innovation ecosystem that enables the United States to better leverage Big Data technologies and techniques in addressing societal challenges, increasing productivity and spurring economic development, enhancing scientific discovery, and providing for national defense and security.

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Postdoc Best Practices Program


The Postdoc Best Practices (Postdoc BP) program is coming into its second year. This project is a joint effort of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), designed to create a set of best practices for postdocs in computer science.