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 November 3rd, 2011

 

“Crowdsourcing Nutrition”

November 3rd, 2011 / in Research News / by Erwin Gianchandani

Most of us have sat down to dinner and wondered just how many calories we are about to consume. Now, thanks to undergraduate researchers at Harvard University, there’s a way to do it quickly, easily, and quite reliably — all with the simple snap of a photo and the reliance of the crowd. According to Harvard’s press release: Americans spend upwards of $40 billion a year on dieting advice and self-help books, but the first step in any healthy eating strategy is basic awareness—what’s on the plate.   If keeping a food diary seems like too much effort, despair not: computer scientists at Harvard have devised a tool that lets […]