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, 2013

 

CCC Sponsors Challenges and Visions Track at AAMAS 2013

May 30th, 2013 / in CCC, research horizons / by Kenneth Hines

The following is a special contribution to the blog from Jeff Rosenchein, Head of The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this entry, Jeff highlights the CCC sponsored Challenges and Visions track at the twelfth international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS ’13) held in St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this month. The Challenges and Visions Track was a new track, initiated for the first time at AAMAS’13 under the sponsorship of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), an organization established to push the U.S. computing research community to pursue a bold vision for computing research. The CCC awards […]

NSF and NICT of Japan Announce Partnership in Next-Generation Networking

May 30th, 2013 / in NSF, Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

Yesterday the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), facilitating a partnership on research in networking technology and systems enabling future Internet/new-generation networks. The NSF issued a press release on the event: This MOU follows the third Director General-level meeting of the U.S.-Japan Policy Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet Economy held in Tokyo, Japan, in March 2012, at which U.S. and Japanese researchers articulated the need for research and development into a new architecture enabling more robust and evolvable future Internet design.   As part of these discussions, three topics of mutual interest emerged: optical […]

The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff … All computer science, all the time …

May 25th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

Steve Lohr reports in the New York Times: “A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm … not only selects a dozen ‘disruptive’ technologies from a candidate list of 100, but also measures their economic impact. “By 2025, the 12 technologies … have the potential to deliver economic value of up to $33 trillion a year worldwide, according to the McKinsey researchers.” The top six on the list: Mobile internet Automation of knowledge work Internet of Things Cloud Advanced Robotics Autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles As we have opined before, “All computer science, all the time …” Read the New York Times article here.

Big Data through the Years

May 22nd, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

Earlier this month, Gil Press of Forbes wrote A Very Short History Of Big Data.  The history in this article begins in 1944, but jumps every few years until 2008, when it seems Big Data hit the big time. The impact of efforts by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) in that time frame were noted by Forbes, as they had previously been by the New York Times.  Both highlighted a CCC white paper co-authored by Randal Bryant (CMU), Randy Katz (UC Berkeley), and Ed Lazowska (University of Washington), “Big-Data Computing: Creating Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Commerce, Science, and Society.” Big Data has been a major theme of CCC’s over the years.  […]

Check out our new website!

May 20th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

The CCC is excited to announce the launch of our updated website www.cra.org/ccc. The new site has a fresh new look and was designed with your needs in mind. The user-friendly navigation provides easy access to the blog, research highlights and CCC events. And there are plenty of ways for you to contribute: Submit a Research Highlight of the Week or idea for Computing Research in Action Suggest a visioning workshop or conference track These are just a few ways to get involved in CCC activities. For more details about any of these, or to learn more about our various other efforts, please visit the new http://cra.org/ccc/.

Register for US Ignite’s Application Summit

May 17th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

US Ignite’s Application Summit, June 24-26, in Chicago, IL is the premier event designed for developers, industry, communities, government, foundations and universities interested in next-generation technologies and gives them a place to gather, learn, and showcase their work using advanced networks to change the way we work, live, learn and play. Register For US Ignite’s Application Summit! This event demonstrates the need for gigabit networks by presenting technology innovations that are only possible when homes, offices, schools, libraries, hospitals and other community institutions are interconnected by advanced high speed broadband networks. Join US Ignite along with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and our local hosts Smart Chicago Collaborative and the University […]