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 ‘AI

 

AAAI Announces Their Newly Elected Class of 2023 Fellows

January 30th, 2023 / in AI, Announcements, awards / by Maddy Hunter

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) just announced their new class of 2023 Fellows. AAAI is a nonprofit that aims to advance and promote research in, and the responsible use of, artificial intelligence. Each year, AAAI asks the community to nominate members of the community that have made “significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence” for the Fellows program. Fellows are selected by a Fellows Selection Committee comprising nine current Fellows, and chaired by the Past President of AAAI. Nominees are chosen based on individual technical contributions or for having performed significant extended service for the AAAI. There are 11 2023 AAAI Fellows. Among them […]

Apply to Attend the Ai4 2023 Conference

January 17th, 2023 / in AI, Announcements, conferences / by Maddy Hunter

Ai4 is hosting their 2023 conference August 7-9 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ai4 is an organization that aims to establish a common framework for AI development and use going forward. The conference will bring together business leaders and data practicers spanning a broad array of practice areas from healthcare, to banking and social media to facilitate the responsible adoption of AI and machine learning technology. Ai4 just announced their line up of over 200+ speakers, including JONNIE BRADLEY (Acting Director, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office – U.S. Department of Energy), NITZAN MEKEL-BOBROV (Chief AI Officer – eBay), JIGYASA GROVER (Machine Learning Engineer – Twitter) and many more top […]

The National Library of Medicine’s Impact on AI Research

November 16th, 2022 / in AI, Research News, resources / by Maddy Hunter

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been providing the medical field with information since 1836. Starting off as a small collection of books, the entity has grown into the world’s largest biomedical library, housing biomedical research and computational health data research. NLM supports two research programs, the Division of Extramural Programs (EP) and Intramural Research Program (IRP), that seek to catalyze advancements in the intersection of medicine and computer science. Specifically, these programs focus on biomedical informatics, data science, computational biology, and computational health. Through these programs NLM is making major investments in finding new ways that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in the medical field.  A couple […]

The Coordinated Science Laboratory Releases a White Paper on Key Findings from their Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility

November 10th, 2022 / in AI, Announcements / by Maddy Hunter

The Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) just released a white paper reflecting ideas that were presented and discussed at the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility sponsored by the CSL at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with co-sponsorship by the School of Information Sciences at the University. This symposium was the second of two symposia sponsored by CSL to celebrate its 70th anniversary.  Contemporary AI technologies are more powerful and pervasive than the original AI technologies created in university laboratories. While industry dominates AI today, universities can still play important roles. In this white paper, we recommend actions that universities should take to promote social responsibility in the development and […]

White House Announces New Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

October 6th, 2022 / in AI / by Maddy Hunter

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.” The goal of the AI Bill of Rights is to provide a set of policies and regulations to protect against potentially harmful consequences of artificial intelligence. The expectations set in the blueprint invite a plethora of research opportunities within the computer science community. Former CCC Council Member, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, was very involved in the initial groundwork of this initiative. You can read more about the blueprint in the article posted on the Computing Research Policy Blog below. Originally written by Brian Mosley and posted on the Computing Research Policy Blog The Biden […]

The Coordinated Science Laboratory Releases a Whitepaper on Key Findings from their Future of Computing Symposium

September 27th, 2022 / in AI, Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy Hunter

In 2021, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) celebrated their 70th anniversary with two big events: the Future of Computing Symposium (October 2021) and the AI and Social Responsibility Symposium (March 2022). The CSL is an Interdisciplinary Research Unit (IRU) in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a rich history of scientific and engineering advances. It brings together researchers from computing, communication, control, circuits, and beyond. CSL’s research covers the full computing stack, from circuits and high-performance applications to signal processing, machine learning, security and trust, and computing’s impact on society and the resulting need for social responsibility. The CSL recently released a white […]