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CRA and CCC are extremely excited to announce the CIFellows for 2020! They comprise 59 diverse researchers covering a broad range of research areas in computing. The class of Fellows is 52% women, come from 46 universities, and will be beginning their fellowships at 43 different universities. You can find out more about each fellow and the program here.
Automated, proximity-based contact tracing apps use Bluetooth to identify who is near them. In theory, this is a great solution that can be efficiently deployed widely (albeit with many privacy and protocol considerations addressed here), however the assumption is that people have access to mobile phones with Bluetooth and use technology similarly.
The CCC is publishing a series of posts on the CCC Blog about ways in which computing researchers are working to adapt and help with the COVID-19 situation. This article presents a summary of the items posted in this series.
CRA, in consultation with the National Science Foundation, has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium Council: Kathleen Fisher, William D. Gropp, Brian LaMacchia, Melanie Moses, Helen Nissenbaum, and Holly Yanco. Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms.
CCC held a session on Using Computing to Sustainably Feed a Growing Population at AAAS 2020.
CCC held a session on Using Computing to Sustainably Feed a Growing Population at AAAS 2020.
CRA recently hired Maddy Hunter as a program associate for the CCC subcommittee.
CCC is still working on behalf of the computing research community to catalyze research, but we also want to provide ways to help the community during the health crisis.
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with Schmidt Futures, will sponsor and administer a white paper competition on the future of “CS for Social Good,” in order to harness CS to address societal challenges.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) produced the newly released NAS Reproducibility and Replicability in Science (2019) report.
New council members will join the CCC in July 2019.
