CCC is proud to announce two of its council members Michela Taufer and Holly Yanco as the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) 2023 Fellows. CCC would also like to congratulate CRA-Industry’s Steering Committee Co-Chair Ben Zorn for this achievement. In 2023, the AAAS Council elected 502 members as fellows. The association selects individuals whose contributions to the progression of science or its practical applications for the betterment of society have set them apart within their professional community. Taufer believes the scientific community can find not just answers but new ways to question, challenge, and discover at the confluence of high-performance computing, computational science, and experimental science. “My […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting brought together a community of leading scientists, educators, policymakers and journalists in February. Among those individuals were CCC council member Matthew Turk and former council member Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Turk, the president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Venkatasubramanian, a professor of data science and computer science at Brown University, were featured in an article by the California Council on Science & Technology.  As AI experts, they were asked about the role of states in providing guardrails for the use of AI and generative AI. Their response in the article emphasized how different attempts by states to address […]

CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. Today, we will summarize the highlights of the Q&A portion of the session, “Large Language Models: Helpful Assistants, Romantic Partners or Con Artists?” This panel, moderated by Dr. Maria Gini, CCC Council Member and Computer Science & Engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, featured Dr. Ece Kamar, Managing Director of AI Frontiers at Microsoft Research, Dr. Hal Daumé III, Computer Science professor at University of Maryland, and Dr. Jonathan May, Computer Science professor at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Below […]

CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. Today, we will summarize the highlights of the panelists presentations of the session, “Large Language Models: Helpful Assistants, Romantic Partners or Con Artists?” This panel, moderated by Dr. Maria Gini, CCC Council Member and Computer Science & Engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, featured Dr. Ece Kamar, Managing Director of AI Frontiers at Microsoft Research, Dr. Hal Daumé III, Computer Science professor at University of Maryland, and Dr. Jonathan May, Computer Science professor at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Large […]

CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls.” This panel, moderated by Dr. Matthew Turk, president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), featured Dr. Rebecca Willett, professor of statistics and computer science at the University of Chicago, Dr. Markus Buehler, professor of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Duncan Watson-Parris, assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. In Part Four, we summarize the Q&A portion of the panel.    A Q&A session followed the panelist’s presentations, […]

CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we will be recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “Generative AI in Science: Promises and Pitfalls.” In Part Three, we summarize the presentation by Dr. Duncan Watson-Parris, assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego.   Following Dr. Markus Buehler’s presentation on generative AI in mechanobiology, Dr. Watson-Parris turned the audience’s attention to generative AI applications in the climate sciences. He began by outlining the difference between climate and weather. Weather refers to […]