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 ‘Future of Work

 

Humans, Machines and the Future of Work Conference Call for Posters

August 30th, 2016 / in Announcements / by Khari Douglas

The De Lange Conference X has released a call for posters for inclusion in their conference, Humans, Machines and the Future of Work. The conference, organized by Moshe Vardi and co-sponsored by The Computing Research Association, will bring together members of computing, economics, and social sciences on December 5th-6th at Rice University to discuss the possible impact of advances in computing on the future of work. The call for posters is below: The De Lange Conference X seeks poster submissions, which describe recently completed work or work in progress, on the subject of Humans, Machines, and The Future of Work. Presenting a poster is a great way to get feedback on work that has not yet been published. Poster […]

The Future of Work in the Age of the Machine

February 25th, 2015 / in policy, Research News / by Helen Wright

The evolution of smart machines has transformed and will continue to transform our economy. As smart machines become more advanced, the human and the machine will become even closer coworkers. This has sparked much needed conversations about the future of work. Will only a small fraction of the population have the talent and education necessary to work alongside machines? Or will smart machines create employment possibilities that we cannot begin to imagine, eventually leading to increased economic prosperity? We don’t know yet. This was the subject of the recent Hamilton Project paper and discussion, called “The Future of Work in the Age of the Machine”, inspired by Massachusetts Institute of […]