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February, 2018
VISIONING ACTIVITIES WITH THE CCC
OUR MISSION
ThemissionofComputingResearchAssociation'sComputingCommunityConsortium(CCC)isto:
catalyzethecomputingresearchcommunityandenablethepursuitofinnovative,high-impactresearch.
CCCcommunicatestheimportanceofthosevisionstopolicymakers,governmentandindustrystakeholders,thepublic,andtheresearchcommunityitself.
CCCconductsactivitiesthatstrengthentheresearchcommunity,articulatecompellingresearchvisions,andalignthosevisionswithpressingnationalandglobalchallenges.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM
• Establishedin2006asastandingcommitteeoftheComputingResearchAssociation(CRA)
• FundedbyNSFunderaCooperativeAgreement
– ThirdAwardbeginsin2018,completedReverseSiteVisit(April2017)
• Facilitatesthedevelopmentofabold,multi-themedvisionforcomputingresearch–andcommunicates
thisvisiontostakeholders
• Ledbyabroad-basedCouncil• StaffbasedatCRA
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CCC AND ITS STAKEHOLDERS
NationalPriorities
AgencyRequests
OpenVisioning
Calls
Blue SkyIdeas
Reports • White PapersRoadmaps • New Leaders
Public Funding Agencies
Science Policy Leadership
Computing Research Community
Council-LedWorkshops
CommunityVisioning
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MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS
• ComputingResearchCommunity– CRA– CSTB(ComputerScienceandTelecommunicationsBoard,partof
NationalResearchCouncil)– Professionalsocieties– Academicunits– Researchlabs
• Industry– Computingindustry,MajorusersofIT
• Public• Government
– Seefollowingslides
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GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS
Agenciesimportanttous• NSF –strongtieswithCISE• NIH –growingtieswithfolksinterestedinHealthIT• DARPA–tiescomeandgo• DoE –tieswithASCR;interestinARPA-E
Othersthatarerelevant• NIST• HHS/ONC
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GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS
NetworkingandInformationTechnologyR&D(NITRD)– LegislativelymandatedcoordinationamongFederalR&Dagencies
– NationalCoordinatingOffice(NCO)facilitates• Interagencyworkinggroups• Coordinatinggroups• Seniorsteeringgroups• Communityofpractice
– DirectorisBryanBiegel
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ACTIVITIES EnvisioningFutureComputingResearch
– Workshops– BlueSkyIdeasConferenceTracks– ComputingResearchSymposia:AddressingNationalPrioritiesandSocietalNeeds
EngagingandAligningwithNationalandComputingResearchPriorities– OutputsofVisioningActivities– ShortReports/WhitePapers– TaskForces
CommunicatingFutureComputingResearch– CCCBlog(http://cccblog.org)– GreatInnovativeIdeas– ComputingResearchSymposia
• Fall2017
CultivatingComputingLeadershipandCommunityCapacity– PostdocBestPractices– Industry–AcademicCollaborations– ComputingInnovationFellows(CIFellows)Project– LeadershipinSciencePolicyInstitute(LiSPI)
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VISIONING
ENVISIONING FUTURE COMPUTING RESEARCH “The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) solicits proposals that will galvanize the community to define visions and agendas for exciting frontiers of computing research.”• Create a new community of researchers.• Inform a new funding initiative.• Help an extant community define a new trajectory.!
Goals for next phase• Increase the participation of industry leadership and early career
researchers at Visioning Workshops• Expand the adoption of Blue Sky tracks at computing conferences• Establish a biennial symposia series Computing Research: Addressing
National Priorities and Societal Host on odd years and host in DC
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VISIONING PROCESSES
• Periodic RFP for Community Initiated Activities• 6 workshops per year in the last 3 years• Top-down (agency initiated)• Bottom-up (open call)• Sideways (council initiated, joint with other agencies,….)
Cybersecurityfor
Manufacturers
SociotechnicalCybersecurity
SmartHealth
Nanotechnology-inspired
InformationProcessingSystems
CyberSocialLearningSystems
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VISIONING ACTIVITIES • Over 45 visioning activities in 11-year
history • Average of 6 activities per year in the
last 4 years• Research areas include:
– Smart and Pervasive Health– Nanotechnology-inspired
Information Processing Systems– Cyber Social Learning Systems – Privacy by Design – BRAIN Initiative– Inclusive Access– Personalized Education
• 13 workshop reports released !in past 4 years
• 20 white papers released !in past 4 years
Workshop DateComputingResearch:AddressingNationalPrioritiesandSocietalNeeds2017
October23-24,2017
SociotechnicalCybersecurityWorkshop2
August8-9,2017
AAAISymposiumonAIforSocialGood
March27-29,2017
CyberSecurityforManufacturers
March14-15,2017
Cyber-SocialLearningSystemsWorkshop3
January24-25,2017
SociotechnicalCybersecurityWorkshop1
December12-13,2016
DiscoveryandinnovationinSmartandPervasiveHealth
December5-6,2016
SymposiumonAcceleratingScience:AGrandChallengeforAI
November17-19,2016
SUCCESSFUL VISIONING ACTIVITIES
• Engage the community and relevant stakeholders
• Facilitate broad thinking with compelling examples• Create new avenues for (interdisciplinary) collaboration• Prepare and energize the community for future
opportunities
• Rapidly capture and synthesize ideas from the community.
• Present ideas and engage possible funders and stakeholders
• Articulate needs and barriers to research impact13
VISIONING PROPOSAL PITFALLS: WHO
• PI’s or proposed attendees do not include key members from – relevant research communities – public sector – private sector – all manner of diversity
• PI’s are unlikely to succeed in orchestrating the discussion, delivering outputs, or other follow-thru.
• Flawed process for identifying / soliciting community participation in workshops
• Insufficient involvement from the “customer” – possible funding agencies – other federal agencies that will benefit from the output
VISIONING PROPOSAL PITFALLS: WHAT
• Ignorance of relevant prior efforts • No discussion of what constitutes success and how to
measure it. • Suitable written outputs are not discussed • No plan to evangelize new proposed activity, such as
– Meetings with relevant Federal officials – Discussions with the broad research community
PROPOSAL DETAILS • A well-formulated proposal should do the following:
– describe the visioning topic area and its current state of development within the field,
– explain the proposed activities in detail (if more than one activity, be sure to demonstrate the differences between the activities, the rationale for more than one activity, and the mechanisms to coordinate across activities),
– connect the activity and the vision: how does the former support/foster the latter? – justify why this vision and this activity are appropriate now, – specify the intended outcomes of the workshop, and – describe how those outcomes can be used to advance the visioning topic area.
• A complete proposal must also – identify the organizing committee, – include biographical sketches of the organizers, – propose a representative set of potential workshop invitees (be sure to include
representation from policy and funding organizations), – provide a budget with justification, and – articulate how the success of the workshop and its outcomes can be assessed.
PROPOSAL DETAILS
• At most, 6 pages • Budget: $10K - $200K
– Funds expenses in connection with meetings. • Typically 1 – 3 meetings
• Brief Bio Sketches of PI’s
PROPOSAL REVIEW PROCESS
• Visioning Committee (VC) or delegate iterates with PI’s. • Proposal sent to entire CCC Council for Review based
on: – potential to be a compelling vision – ability to engage large segment of research community, policy,
and funding agencies.
• PI’s receive feedback from full Council (typically 4-8 weeks)
CCC SUPPORT FOR A VISIONING EXERCISE • CCC Liaison and CCC Director:
– Available to PI’s when planning workshops • Provides guidance • Attends workshop (as an observer)
– Provides feedback on outputs as they are being produced – Provides guidance for agency meetings
• CCC Program Associate, Khari Douglas – Logistical Support – Website Support
• CCC Senior Program Associate, Helen Wright
THE CCC COUNCIL TermsendingJune2020• NadyaBliss,ArizonaState• ElizabethChurchill,Google• JulianaFreire,NYU• KeithMarzullo,Maryland• GregMorrisett,Cornell• ManuelaVeloso,CarnegieMellon
TermsendingJune2019• SampathKannan,UPenn• MajaMataric,USC• NinaMishra,Amazon• HollyRushmeier,Yale
TermsendingJune2018• LizBradley,CUBoulder• CynthiaDwork,MicrosoftResearch• KevinFu,Univ.Michigan(Leave)• DanielP.Lopresti,LehighUniversity• ShwetakPatel,Univ.Washington• KatherineYelick,UCBerkeley• JenniferRexford,Princeton• BenZorn,MicrosoftResearch
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THE CCC COUNCIL — PAST MEMBERS – LorenzoAlvisi,Univ.ofTexas– GregAndrews,Univ.Arizona– RandyBryant,CarnegieMellonDebra
Crawford,Drexel– SusanDavidson,Univ.PA– JosephEvans,Univ.KS– BillFeiereisen,LANL– LimorFix,Intel– StephanieForrest,Univ.NewMexico– LanceFortnow,GeorgiaTech– SusanGraham,UCBerkeley– GregHager,JohnsHopkins– VasantHonavar,Univ.ofPennsylvania– EricHorvitz,MicrosoftResearch– ChrisJohnson,Univ.Utah– AnitaJones,UVA– FransKaashoek,MIT– DaveKaeli,Northeastern– DickKarp,UCBerkeley– JohnKing,Univ.Michigan
– HankKorth,Lehigh– EdLazowska,Univ.ofWashington,CCC
FoundingChair– PeterLee,CarnegieMellon– RanLibeskind-Hadas,HarveyMudd– AndrewMcCallum,UMass– JohnMitchell,Stanford– RobinMurphy,TexasA&M– KlaraNahrstedt,UIUC– TalRabin,IBMResearch– DebraRichardson,UCSD– DanielaRus,MIT– FredSchneider,Cornell– MargoSeltzer,Harvard– ShashiShekhar,Univ.MN– BobSproull,FormallyOracle– KarenSutherland,AugsburgCollege– DavidTennenhouse,NewVenturePartners– JosepTorrellas,UIUC– DaveWaltz,Columbia– RossWhitaker,Univ.Utah
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KEY LINKS
• RFP: http://cra.org/ccc/visioning/rfp-creating-visions-for-computing-research/
• Best Practices Guide: http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Visioning-Best-Practices-v1.0.pdf
• Past Visioning Activities: http://cra.org/ccc/events/#past-events
• Email Contact: [email protected]