The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA. ISWC is the international forum for the semantic web and linked data community.
Papers with significant impact on the field and outside the field were solicited. Topics included areas such as semantic data programming and weak supervision, deep learning and knowledge graphs, and graph embedding.
First place:
Denny Vrandečić, Google
Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia
Third place:
Praveen Paritosh, Google
What if the primary goal of the web was to foster curiosity?
CCC provides travel awards to authors of the winning papers. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference!
Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee members for the track. For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a Blue Sky Ideas track — visit our website.
