Pitch Perfect
This year’s HLF included an interactive session titled “Pitch Your Science News and Opinion Stories to News and Magazine Editors,” to help young researchers improve their skills in this domain.
Computing Research News
Tag Archive: CCC
Articles relevant to the Computing Community Consortium.
Serving as a DARPA PM: A very long lever arm
Kathleen Fisher describes her experiences serving as a PM to convey a sense of what the job is like and why it might be an attractive career option.
Computing Research for the Climate Crisis
CCC has released a new whitepaper on Computing Research for the Climate Crisis, coauthored by Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University), Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder), and Claire Monteleoni (University of Colorado Boulder), to highlight the role of computing research in addressing climate change-induced challenges.
Melanie Mitchell on the Importance of Training AI to Recognize Analogies
Melanie Mitchell, CCC Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, was recently featured in a Scientific American article, ‘The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies’. The article focused on explaining the importance of getting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognize and use analogies and included an interview on the topic from Quanta.
Using AI to Detect Gravitational Waves
CCC Council member Ian Foster and his colleagues have published a paper in the journal Nature Astronomy showing that the hunt for gravitational waves across the universe can be supercharged by using artificial intelligence.
Visions in Theoretical Computer Science Workshop Report: A Report on the TCS Visioning Workshop 2020
Newly released Visions in Theoretical Computer Science Workshop Report, summarizes the key takeaways from the 2020 TCS Visioning Workshop.
CCC / Code 8.7 Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery Workshop Report Released
CCC, along with Code 8.7, is pleased to announce the release of the CCC / Code 8.7 Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery Workshop Report.
Join Data Buddies Now to Start This Fall!
The CRA Data Buddies Survey, an annual data collection initiative of the CRA Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP), is actively recruiting new departments to join the project. If you are not yet a Data Buddy, please consider joining today.
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.
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).
