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, […]
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.
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 Three
March 20th, 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 Three, we summarize the presentation by Dr. Duncan Watson-Parris, assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. Following Dr. Markus Buehler’s presentation on generative AI in mechanobiology, Dr. Watson-Parris turned the audience’s attention to generative AI applications in the climate sciences. He began by outlining the difference between climate and weather. Weather refers to […]
CCC @ AAAS 2024: Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls Recap – Part Two
March 19th, 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 Two, we will summarize Dr. Markus Buehler’s presentation on Generative AI in Mechanobiology. Dr. Markus Buehler began his presentation by addressing how generative models can be applied in the study of materials science. Historically in materials science, researchers would collect data or develop equations to describe how materials behave, and solve them with pen and paper. The emergence of computers allowed researchers to […]
CCC @ 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 […]
CCC Responds to RFI on NIH’s Strategic Plan for Data Science 2023-2028
March 14th, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC, health / by Haley GriffinToday, CCC submitted a response to a Request for Information released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on their Strategic Plan for Data Science 2023-2028. The response was written by the following computing experts: Tony Capra (University of California-San Francisco), David Danks (University of California San Diego, CCC Council Member), Haley Griffin (CCC), Carl Kingsford (Carnegie Mellon University), Rittika Shamsuddin (Oklahoma State), Katie A. Siek (Indiana University, CCC Council Member), Mona Singh (Princeton University, CCC Council Member), Donna Slonim (Tufts University), and Tammy Toscos (Parkview Health, CRA-I Council Member). The authors applauded NIH for an impressive list of aspirations in the Strategic Plan, but raised concerns about the training, […]
