Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Archive for March 22nd, 2011

 

Open Networking Foundation Announced

March 22nd, 2011 / in Research News / by Erwin Gianchandani

Nearly two dozen IT companies are announcing today a new nonprofit organization called the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), dedicated to promoting the development and use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies like OpenFlow. Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo! are founding partners, and another 17 companies — including major equipment vendors, networking and virtualization software suppliers, and chip technology providers — are members. From the official press release: In the past two decades, enormous innovation has taken place on top of the Internet architecture. Email, e-commerce, search, social networks, cloud computing, and the web as we know it are all good examples. While networking technologies have also evolved in this time, the […]

CCC Calling for Challenges & Visions Sessions

March 22nd, 2011 / in research horizons, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

As we’ve previously blogged here, the CCC has sponsored three Challenges & Visions Sessions at computing research conferences over the past year, seeking to give time and attention to “wacky ideas” that may not otherwise make it through a conference’s normal reviewing process.  These sessions — run on an experimental basis, to assess their value to the conferences as well as the broader research community — have been quite successful in elevating promising visions and generating vigorous discussions.  Consequently, the CCC is announcing today a call for additional Challenges & Visions Sessions: The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring an initiative to bring special “Challenges and Visions” tracks to leading computer […]