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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 6th, 2012

 

First Person: “Tracking Data About Your Body”

March 6th, 2012 / in big science, research horizons, Research News / by Erwin Gianchandani

Last week, we blogged about Larry Smarr’s efforts to quantify his own health. Turns out Larry is speaking out today, in his own words, as part of a front-page profile on the front page of The San Diego Tribune: “Quantified health, to me, means tracking data about your body — as simple as weighing yourself on a scale once a day to as complicated as wearing a device at night to measure every 30 seconds your sleep state…   “The reason you do this — you modify your behavior. And it’s the same thing as you drive your car. You look at the speedometer, and if it’s a 60-mile-per-hour zone, you try to […]

Thank You!

March 6th, 2012 / in CCC / by Erwin Gianchandani

I’d like to pause briefly today to acknowledge you — our readers. On behalf of the CCC Council, many thanks to each of you for reading the CCC Blog regularly, for contributing periodically, and for encouraging your colleagues to do so as well. We saw more traffic to the Blog last month than ever before, and so we thought we would take a quick look back today at the top 10 posts in February (following the link):