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 February 10th, 2014

 

New DARPA Memex program seeks to develop next generation of search technologies

February 10th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

DARPA’s new Memex program seeks user-defined, domain-specific search of public information, and plans to use its groundbreaking research to fight human trafficking. What makes this a groundbreaking new initiative? Currently web searches use a centralized, one-size-fits-all approach that searches the Internet with the same set of tools for all queries. Even though it is useful and successful commercially, it’s still a mostly manual process that doesn’t aggregate results which would be more useful for government purposes. The new search technologies developed through the Memex program will have the potential to  revolutionize the discovery, organization and presentation of search results. From the DARPA website: “We’re envisioning a new paradigm for search that would tailor […]

NSF Launches Search for Division Director of Information and Intelligent Systems

February 10th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has sent the following Letter to the Computing Community: Dear Colleagues,   The National Science Foundation CISE Directorate is pleased to announce the formation of a search committee for the Director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS).  Dr. Howard Wactlar will finish his term as IIS Director at the beginning of Summer 2014. We greatly appreciate his expertise and leadership during his tenure!   Announcements for the search for his replacement can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/cise/iis/news/staff-iis.jsp and on USAJOBS at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/360852200?org+NSF.   Please send your nominations to committee co-chairs or any of the following committee members. Self-nominations are also […]