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 June 22nd, 2011

 

More About “Living the Future Today”

June 22nd, 2011 / in research horizons, workshop reports / by Erwin Gianchandani

A couple weeks ago, I briefly noted in this space the June 9-10 US Ignite and GigU Workshops held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. The highlight of the event — for me at least — was a two-hour demo session called “Living the Future Today” featuring 13 teams of researchers from around the country illustrating all different kinds of ultra-broadband uses. Now the organizers, led by CWRU CIO Lev Gonick, have posted a short video montage — compressing those two hours into just five minutes. It’s worth watching: For those interested, all the plenaries are now online, starting here. (Contributed by Erwin Gianchandani, CCC Director)

A New “STEM Grand Challenge” Competition

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

At a recent Naval STEM conference sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said,  “I have committed to doubling the Navy’s investment in STEM education over the next five years… We are going to double it in a targeted and innovative way so that we reach the maximum number of people and have the maximum impact.” The secretary used his keynote to introduce a roadmap aimed at renewing the Navy’s focus on providing educational opportunities for future naval scientists and engineers — ultimately increasing total dollars committed to STEM education initiatives to more than $100 million by 2015. As part of the roadmap, […]

WATCH: Talking Trustworthy Computing

June 22nd, 2011 / in policy, research horizons / by Erwin Gianchandani

For those of you in the Washington, DC, area, the NSF is hosting a series of talks about trustworthy computing. It’s called the Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH): Today we are regularly obliged to trust a cyberinfrastructure that is in fact untrustworthy. Transforming today’s infrastructure into one that can meet society’s growing demands is major national challenge and opportunity. Meeting the challenge requires not only technical advances in the fabric of computing and communication but also improved understanding of how individuals and organizations comprehend and use technology, how economic and policy incentives can affect adoption of new technology, and how to develop human-centered systems that can serve users with different […]