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		<title>&#8220;Humans, Computers Each Have Their Place&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/15/humans-computers-each-have-their-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/15/humans-computers-each-have-their-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Washington Post yesterday: Modern technological advances have sparked many concerns that supercomputers, robots and other sophisticated machinery will soon erase the need for skilled workers, especially in industries like manufacturing and construction, perhaps driving the nation’s unemployment rate even higher in the years ahead. &#160; Similarly, Americans’ increasing dependence on technology, ranging from constant computer use to around-the-clock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH:  &#8220;Looking at the Potential of mHealth to Solve Long-standing Problems&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/06/nih-looking-at-the-potential-of-mhealth-to-solve-long-standing-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/06/nih-looking-at-the-potential-of-mhealth-to-solve-long-standing-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 3,600 officials spanning government, industry, and academia are gathered at the third annual mHealth Summit just outside Washington, DC, this week, &#8220;to advance collaboration in the use of wireless technology to improve health outcomes in the U.S. and abroad.&#8221; Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius kicked off the conference on Monday morning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Recap of Supercomputing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/25/a-recap-of-supercomputing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/25/a-recap-of-supercomputing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in Seattle a record attendance of more than 11,000 people from throughout the world met at the Seattle Convention Center for SC11 &#8211; the largest international supercomputing conference focusing on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis through a large industrial and research exhibition and a highly peer reviewed technical program (which was attended by almost 5,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Cyborg in Everyone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/24/the-cyborg-in-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/24/the-cyborg-in-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We blogged about brain-computer interfaces early last week &#8212; and it turns out there was a related talk later in the week by Gerwin Schalk, a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, during MIT&#8217;s 2011 Emerging Technologies Conference. Schalk described his lab&#8217;s pioneering methods for controlling computers with thoughts instead of fingers: [In 1968], Doug Engelbart actually showed for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing-Room Only at a VLDB Challenges &amp; Visions Session</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/13/standing-room-only-at-a-vldb-challenges-visions-session/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/13/standing-room-only-at-a-vldb-challenges-visions-session/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attendees of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011) &#8211; a premier annual international forum for data management and database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users &#8212; stretched into the hallway outside the meeting room during the first of two Challenges and Visions sessions held in Seattle, WA, in late August. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SSTD 2011 Vision &amp; Challenge Track Winners Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/27/sstd-2011-vision-challenge-track-winners-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/27/sstd-2011-vision-challenge-track-winners-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog from Shashi Shekhar and Mohamed Mokbel, faculty in the Department of Computer Science &#38; Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The pair organized the 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases in Minneapolis, MN, this week. We were delighted to host a successful Vision and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Rise of Mobile Data&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/22/the-rise-of-mobile-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/22/the-rise-of-mobile-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Madden, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT&#8217;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), delivered a great talk about &#8220;The Rise of Mobile Data&#8221; at the &#8220;Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything&#8221; symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration earlier this year. Madden described his work in the area of sensor data analytics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Watson&#8217;s Lead Developer: &#8220;Deep analysis, speed, and results&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/12/update-watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/12/update-watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago, I blogged about David Ferrucci&#8217;s excellent keynote at this year&#8217;s Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) in San Jose, CA &#8212; noting how Ferrucci stepped through the creation of Watson, from conception of the &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8220; challenge in 2004 to the supercomputer&#8217;s nationally televised victory earlier this year. Well, now, ACM has made Ferrucci&#8217;s talk &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The March of Technology&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/25/the-march-of-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/25/the-march-of-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything” symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration, Stanford President John Hennessy stepped through the history of computer architecture, with an eye toward the future &#8212; including multicore and multithreading (fine-grained vs. simultaneous). I&#8217;m going to try to both take a look backward and then a look forward and talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pixar Senior Scientist on Computer Animation</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/07/pixar-senior-scientist-on-computer-animation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/07/pixar-senior-scientist-on-computer-animation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another great talk &#8212; by Tony DeRose, Senior Scientist and head of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios &#8212; at the recent “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything” symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration. DeRose stepped through the 80-year history of computer animation, with examples from Beauty and the Beast, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT Professor&#8217;s &#8220;Dream of Robots&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/27/mit-professors-dream-of-robots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/27/mit-professors-dream-of-robots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh on the heels of Friday&#8217;s big announcement about a new National Robotics Initiative, I thought now would be a great time to feature a recent talk by MIT CSAIL Professor Leslie Pack Kaelbling. Speaking at the “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything” symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration back in April, Kaelbling described the emerging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Role of the Cloud in the Smart Grid&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/the-role-of-the-cloud-in-the-smart-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/the-role-of-the-cloud-in-the-smart-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I attended a panel discussion on &#8220;The Role of the Cloud in the Smart Grid&#8221;, sponsored by Microsoft&#8217;s Innovation &#38; Policy Center and the Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC). The discussion &#8212; which featured leading government and industry officials &#8212; ranged widely from privacy implications to efficiency benefits, but there were a few key takeaway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ITA Software&#8217;s Co-Founder Discusses Travel Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/18/ita-softwares-co-founder-discusses-travel-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/18/ita-softwares-co-founder-discusses-travel-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the electronic reservation system that you used to book your summer vacation this year? Well, in all likelihood, it was powered by information technology from ITA Software &#8212; the 450-person, Cambridge, MA-based company that was recently bought by Google for $700 million. ITA Software&#8217;s innovative travel tool &#8212; QPX &#8212; powers some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akamai Chief Scientist Talks Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/10/akamai-chief-scientist-talks-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/10/akamai-chief-scientist-talks-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks, we&#8217;ve been highlighting on this blog several of the excellent talks from the “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything&#8221; symposium held at MIT earlier this year. The symposium &#8212; part of MIT&#8217;s 150th anniversary celebration &#8212; described how computer science is changing the world. This week, we showcase another talk, this one by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watson&#8217;s Lead Developer:  &#8220;Deep analysis, speed, and results&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/07/watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/07/watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Ferrucci&#8217;s official title is &#8220;IBM Fellow and Leader of the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM&#8217;s T.J. Watson Research Center.&#8221; But to the world, he&#8217;s the genius behind Watson, the question-answering supercomputer system that bested two humans in a nationally televised broadcast of the popular game show Jeopardy! earlier this year. And not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Computation Has Transformed Practically Everything</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/26/computation-and-the-transformation-of-practically-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/26/computation-and-the-transformation-of-practically-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 13:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve noted in this space before, MIT &#8212; as part of its 150th anniversary celebration &#8212; recently sponsored a series of symposia exploring key interdisciplinary research questions and directions. One that&#8217;s of particular interest was titled “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything,&#8221; and touched on how computer science is changing the world: Computation and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Biology as Information&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/biology-as-information/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/biology-as-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 21:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, MIT sponsored a series of symposia this spring exploring key interdisciplinary research questions and directions. One of these, titled &#8220;Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything,&#8221; took place April 11-12, and features over two dozen phenomenal talks about how computer science is changing the world: Computation and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 10th GENI Engineering Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/19/the-10th-geni-engineering-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/19/the-10th-geni-engineering-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 280 leading networking researchers from around the country gathered this week for the 10th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC).  The meeting &#8212; co-hosted by the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and the University of Puerto Rico &#8212; came at a critical time in the evolution of the GENI Project:  out of the “startup phase,” the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PLDI&#8217;s &#8220;Fun Ideas &amp; Thoughts&#8221;:  Stimulating New Research Visions</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/26/pldis-fun-ideas-thoughts-stimulating-new-research-visions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/26/pldis-fun-ideas-thoughts-stimulating-new-research-visions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium is interested in stimulating the development of new research visions and challenges in computing research. Recently, the CCC has begun collaborating with conferences in computer science and sponsoring &#8220;crazy-idea&#8221; sessions with travel awards for the most exciting submissions. One such example is the Fun Ideas and Thoughts (FIT) session at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a New AP Course in Computer Science</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/19/towards-a-new-ap-course-in-computer-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/19/towards-a-new-ap-course-in-computer-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at the biennial Snowbird Conference, Jan Cuny (NSF), Owen Astrachan (Duke University), and Larry Snyder (U. Washington) gave an inspiring talk about a new advanced placement  course in computer science that is being developed by a group sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the College Board. The new &#8220;AP Computer Science: Principles&#8221; course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from NCWIT</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/25/report-from-ncwit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/25/report-from-ncwit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 01:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Contributed by Dr. Christine Alvarado, Harvey Mudd College) The National Center for Women &#38; Information Technology (NCWIT) annual summit took place last Tuesday through Thursday in Portland, OR. Hundreds of people dedicated to increasing the number of women in the IT field packed Portland&#8217;s Hotel Monaco and Intel&#8217;s Jones Farm campus to experience a stimulating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Report from the Visions and Grand Challenges Conferences</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/22/a-report-from-the-visions-and-grand-challenges-conferences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/22/a-report-from-the-visions-and-grand-challenges-conferences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your faithful correspondent recently attended the paired ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 and UKCRC Grand Challenges conferences at Edinburgh University.  (Due to volcanic ash and the resulting travel snarls, this correspondent&#8217;s stay in the UK has been extended longer than expected!) The Visions conference was designed to highlight research visions for the future and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A View from the 2009 European Computer Science Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/10/13/a-view-from-the-2009-european-computer-science-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/10/13/a-view-from-the-2009-european-computer-science-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your faithful correspondent recently participated in the European Computer Science Summit 2009, the annual meeting of Informatics Europe (Paris, 8-9 October; http://www.informatics-europe.org/). Informatics Europe was created five years ago as a European version of CRA (which is a North American association by charter). A recurring theme at this meeting was the concern that the European [...]]]></description>
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