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: cccrfp@cra.org