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 May 14th, 2012

 

Administration Announces New Materials Genome Commitments

May 14th, 2012 / in policy, research horizons, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

Nearly a year ago, the Obama Administration announced a $500 million Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) to stimulate the development of new technologies to spur high-tech manufacturing. A key focus for the computing research community was a $70 million commitment to research in next-generation robotics. But as we’ve noted previously, another important aspect of the AMP for computer science was the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), a multi-agency effort “to double the speed with which we discover, develop, and manufacture new materials.” At its core, the MGI sought to “fund computational tools, software, new methods for material characterization, and the development of open standards and databases that will make the process of discovery and development of advanced materials faster, less expensive, and more predictable.” […]

DARPA to Unveil Initiative on Natural Language Analysis

May 14th, 2012 / in research horizons, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced plans to issue a new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) titled Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT) — a program that will require leveraging advances in machine learning, natural language processing, and computational linguistics “to assist warfighters with planning and decision-making by inferring implicit information in text, filtering redundancy and connecting like documents.” In anticipation of the BAA, DARPA plans to hold a Proposers’ Day this Wednesday, May 16th in Arlington, VA, to familiarize the community with its vision and goals for DEFT. Here’s a description of the DEFT program (following the link):