CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls.” This panel, moderated by Dr. Matthew Turk, president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), featured Dr. Rebecca Willett, professor of statistics and computer science at the University of Chicago, Dr. Markus Buehler, professor of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Duncan Watson-Parris, assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. In Part Four, we summarize the Q&A portion of the panel. A Q&A session followed the panelist’s presentations, […]
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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.
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CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Four
March 21st, 2024 / in AAAS / by Catherine GillCCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part One
March 18th, 2024 / in AAAS / by Catherine GillCCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls.” In Part One, we will summarize the introduction and the presentation by Dr. Rebecca Willett. CCC’s first AAAS panel of the 2024 annual meeting took place on Friday, February 16th, the second day of the conference. The panel, moderated by CCC’s own Dr. Matthew Turk, president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, was composed of experts who apply artificial intelligence to a variety of […]
Former CCC Council Chair Gregory D. Hager Announced as Next NSF CISE AD
March 15th, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC, NSF, Research News / by Haley GriffinWe are excited and proud to pass on the news that former CCC Chair and long time Council member Gregory D. Hager was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve as the Assistant Director (AD) of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) starting June 3, 2024. Dr. Hager had been a long standing member of CCC: he was a CCC Council Member from 2010-2017, CCC Vice Chair from 2013-2014, and CCC Chair from 2014-2016. His leadership in CCC had a significant impact on the broader computing research community. Most recently, in 2022 CCC featured his research on the medical applications for AI and robotics […]
Visioning Workshop Report Released: Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society
March 12th, 2024 / in CCC, workshop reports / by Haley GriffinThe Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society visioning workshop was held in the Spring of 2023, bringing together a diverse group of 53 civil society representatives, activists, non-profit leaders, and computing researchers together. The workshop was sponsored by CCC and the MacArthur Foundation. The workshop organizers, Timnit Gebru (Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas at Austin), and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University), along with support from Haley Griffin (CCC), Nasim Sonboli (Brown University), and Leah Namisa Rosenbloom (Brown University), have written a workshop report that synthesizes the amazing ideas discussed throughout the visioning workshop. This report is a result of the ideas, experiences, recommendations, […]
CCC Receives $5 Million NSF Award to Continue Catalyzing the Research Community
January 29th, 2024 / in CCC, NSF / by Haley GriffinThe following originally appeared on the CRA Bulletin, written by Haley Griffin, Program Associate, CCC, and Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications Following an intensive recompete process, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue serving the computing research community for another two years. Building on CCC’s strong track record of impact, the new award will enable the implementation of several notable enhancements to CCC operations, including strengthening its communications outreach and establishing a new evaluation strategy to support CCC’s continuous improvement. “I’m very pleased to be continuing our partnership with NSF,” said Dan Lopresti, […]
Mary Lou Maher to Join CRA as Director of Research Community Initiatives
January 22nd, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA / by Elora DanielsThe following originally appeared on the CRA Bulletin, written by Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications The Computing Research Association (CRA) is excited to announce the naming of Mary Lou Maher, PhD to the position of Director of Research Community Initiatives. An accomplished researcher with leadership experience that spans the settings of universities, large research projects, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Maher joins CRA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she most recently served as a professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems and previously served as the Department Chair. In her new role, Dr. Maher will assume responsibility as the director of […]
