A quick break from the usual sorts of posts in this space: The Computing Community Consortium launched this blog three years ago as a way to promote discussion — about research directions, funding programs, etc. — throughout the computing research community. Today — 234 posts later — the blog has been seen at least 100,000 times. Thanks to everyone who’s visited this website over the past several years! In the very first post on this blog, Peter Lee and Andrew McCallum described the objective — derived from the goals of the CCC: Brainstorming, discussing and driving “longer range, audacious research challenges” is the job of the entire community, and the CCC is […]

(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) Back in late April, the CCC announced a call for short videos describing exciting research and results in computer science — with the goal of communicating to undergraduates what computing research is all about. Today I’m pleased to present the first of these videos — called Exploring Photobios — in what I hope will become a continuing feature on this blog. This video comes from Steven Seitz’s group in the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering. All of us are photographed thousands of times over our lifetimes. Taken together, these photos form a visual record for each of […]