Upcoming Events, Webinars & Calls for Papers (Week of Aug. 28, 2017)

Upcoming Grants, Funding & Award Opportunities

  • NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund

    Sponsor: NCWIT with support from Microsoft Research
    Award: Up to $10,000 per project funded plus travel expenses to annual summit
    Number of Awards: TBD
    Application Deadline: Oct. 30, 2017
    Note: Applicant's institution must be an NCWIT member. (Membership is free.) The award focus is on programs "to develop and implement initiatives for recruiting or retaining women in computing and IT."
  • VentureWell Faculty Grants (developing curriculum for promoting STEM entrepreneurship)

    Sponsor: VentureWell
    Award: Up to $30,000
    Number of Awards: TBD
    Application Deadline: Nov. 8, 2017
    Note: Applicant's institution must be a VentureWell member. See list of member institutions here.
  • ACM Athena Lecturer Award

    Sponsor: ACM and Google
    Award: Up to $25,000 plus travel expenses to ACM conference
    Number of Awards: 1
    Application Deadline: Nov. 30, 2017
    Note: "This award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to Computer Science."

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    Open Secure AI Alliance Moves to Linux Foundation

    The Open Secure AI Alliance has moved under the Linux Foundation, giving the initiative what the organizations describe as a neutral home for developing open source tools, shared standards and defensive practices. The Alliance was launched by NVIDIA in July to develop open security technologies for AI systems and agents.

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    Agentic AI Moves from Pilot Phase to Production, Bringing Governance to the Forefront

    New research from Caylent, an AI-focused Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Services Partner, found that enterprises are already moving agentic AI beyond pilots and into production environments. At the same time, organizations are putting strict conditions around autonomy, making governance and control the next major challenge for enterprise AI adoption.

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    Anthropic Launches Lower-Cost Claude Sonnet 5

    Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, positioning the model as its most autonomous mid-tier offering to date and a lower-cost alternative to its flagship Opus 4.8 system. The company said the model can plan multi-step tasks, operate tools such as browsers and terminals, and complete agentic work at a level that previously required larger and more expensive models.