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.


Posts Tagged ‘ACM

 

Congratulations to the 2023 ACM Fellows!

January 19th, 2023 / in awards / by Maddy Hunter

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently announced their 2022 Fellows. The ACM Fellows award recognizes individuals for their important work and contributions to the computing field. The 2022 ACM Fellows are made up of 57 individuals from many different areas of expertise and countries. ACM states the following about the award: “ACM’s most prestigious member grade recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Candidates for Fellow must have at least 5 years of Professional Membership within the last 10 years.” Among the 2022 ACM Fellows are members of the community […]

Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, Moshe Vardi, Shares Concern Over Lack of Incentive Structure in Cybersecurity

October 24th, 2022 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy Hunter

Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science Professor at Rice University and Senior Editor of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), wrote an article in the November 2022 issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine, Accountability and Liability in Computing. The article articulates his concerns for the slow progress and lack of conclusive knowledge on how to build secure information systems. Vardi speculates the issue is not due to a lack of technical advancements but a lack of incentives encouraging hardware security developments and solutions. It is becoming vital to address this “market failure” as we become more reliant on technical systems and become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.  Vardi […]

Former CCC Council Member Ian Foster Named 2022 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient

September 8th, 2022 / in Announcements, awards, CCC / by Maddy Hunter

Ian Foster, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member and Professor at the University of Chicago and Division Director at Argonne National Laboratory, was just named the 2022 Ken Kennedy award recipient. Presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE-CS) the Ken Kennedy Award is an annual honor recognizing contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and community service or mentoring contributions. You can see past award winners here. Foster is recognized for his substantial contributions in accelerating scientific discovery in computational science by establishing innovative, newfangled applications of distributed computing both within supercomputers and over networks. His work […]

CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino Elected as ACM Vice President

May 31st, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Maddy Hunter

Last week, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), announced their election results. Among the new leadership was Computing Community Consortium Council Member, Elisa Bertino. She will begin her new two-year term as ACM Vice President on July 1. Bertino is a Professor of Computer Science and research director at CERIAS at Purdue University, and a Fellow of both ACM and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She has a long standing affiliation with ACM, formerly serving as the ACM Secretary/Treasurer, a 2019–2020 ACM Athena Lecturer and served on the editorial board for the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. In addition, she is the Secretary/Treasurer John West, […]

Former CCC Council Member Maja Matarić Named A 2020 ACM Fellow

January 15th, 2021 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently named 95 of its members as the new ACM Fellows for 2020.    One of the newly named members is former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Maja Matarić, University of Southern California, for her “contributions to socially assistive robotics and human-robot systems.” Matarić was a key contributor to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, which was released in August 2019.  Several other individuals involved with the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Research Association – Widening Participation (CRA-WP) have been named Fellows. See the CRA Bulletin for the full list.  Additional information about the […]

Blue Sky at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020

November 17th, 2020 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, CCC / by Helen Wright

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020), November 3-6th, 2020, online.  The emphasis of this track was on visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities in research that are outside of the current mainstream topics of the field. First Place-Smartmedia: Locally & Contextually-Adapted Streaming Media Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs-Research), David Gibbon (AT&T Labs-Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research), Valerie Yip (AT&T Labs-Research), Eric Zavesky (AT&T Labs-Research) Second Place-Leveraging geospatial data gateways to support the operational application of deep learning models (Vision Paper) Aiman Soliman (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Jeffrey Terstriep […]