Am I safe sitting at home with my pacemaker? Am I safe shopping online? Am I safe when I am using my web-cam enabled computer? These are all real concerns brought up by audience members at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) scientific session at the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. This session called Cybersecurity: Transcending Physics, Technology, and Society was moderated by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill (University of Wisconsin-Madison). The speakers were Kevin Fu (University of Michigan), John Masters (Red Hat), and Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Kevin Fu started the session by asking the audience what happens if your […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Jacob Chakareski from the University of Alabama. Jacob published the “Viewport-adaptive Navigable 360-Degree Video Delivery” paper with Xavier Corbillon (IMT Atlantique), Alisa Devlic (Huawei), and Gwendal Simon (IMT Atlantique). It won the best paper award in the Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications category at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications. The Idea Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) hold tremendous potential to advance our society and are commonly seen as the 4th major disruptive technology wave after PC, the Internet/Web, and mobile. Together with another pair of emerging technologies, 360-degree video and holographic video, they can suspend our disbelief of being at a remote […]

How can we feed the world’s population – projected to reach ten billion people by 2050 – in a sustainable way that preserves the health of individuals, communities, and the environment? How can computer science be utilized to improve food production, processing, and distribution? These were the main topics at the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) scientific session on Sustainably Feeding Ten Billion People that took place February 16th at the AAAS 2019 Annual Meeting. The panelists for this session were Diane Wang (SUNY Buffalo), Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research), and Abraham Stroock (Cornell), while Susan McCouch (Cornell) moderated the session. Diane Wang’s presentation on Coupling Nature and Nurture: Supercharging Predictions for […]

A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now. In this episode Khari Douglas interviews CCC Council Members Dan Lopresti (Lehigh University), Nadya Bliss (Arizona State), and James Cockayne (Centre for Policy Research at UN University) following the Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery conference, which was co-sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, The Alan Turing Institute, Tech Against Trafficking, University of Nottingham Rights Lab, and Arizona State University Global Security Initiative. Code 8.7 brought together computer science researchers and technologists with policy researchers, law enforcement officials, and activists involved in the fight against human trafficking. Stream the episode below or listen through iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play and subscribe […]

The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has published a number of reports related to the opportunities below, include most recently the Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role and the  20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US Executive Summary.  Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, We are pleased to share with you a number of recent funding opportunities that the NSF has issued in the last few months and are likely to be of significant interest to the CISE […]

How does social science and government policy affect technology? That was the main question the Socio-technical Cybersecurity: It’s All About People scientific session attempted to answer at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual meeting in Washington, DC. The session was moderated by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Director Ann Drobnis, and CCC Council Member Keith Marzullo (University of Maryland, College Park) was the discussant for the panel, which included participating speakers: Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Research) highlighted the challenges in cybersecurity in the age of cloud and edge computing in his presentation Cyberspace: Enabling Trustworthy and Autonomous Agency; David Mussington (University of Maryland, College Park) discussed the necessity of […]