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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.


Blue Sky Ideas- AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation Track Open

July 9th, 2019 / in Announcements, Blue Sky / by Helen Wright

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT).

SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. SMPT has two subtracks for submissions, which include summary talks and Blue Sky Ideas talks.

The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations are aimed at presenting ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, e.g., new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research. The presenter should find the right arguments to convince the audience that the topic is promising, and should relate the talk as much as possible to the existing literature. The CCC will give three awards ($1000, $750 and $500), for the three best submissions in this category, to be used as travel grants for the presenters.

Please submit here before the September 13, 2019 deadline. For more information about SMPT, please see this website.

Blue Sky Ideas- AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation Track Open

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