Informatics Europe Bulletin - July 2018

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	Dear Members, We are happy to send you the latest Informatics Europe bulletin, our bi-monthly newsletter for members. In this issue: ECSS 2018: Registration and Program, 9-10 October Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads, 8 October 2018 Awards Winners to be announced at ECSS 2018 Member survey: your opinion matters Pledge against lethal autonomous weapons ERCIM News: call for contributions Association News Follow us on Twitter New Members Board Meetings Members News New Jobs @Informatics Europe Job Platform ECSS 2018: Registration and Program, 9-10 October Registration is open for the 14th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2018) in Gothenburg, 9-10 October, at Chalmers Conference Center. IMPORTANT: Early-bird fees are available until September 8! This year’s edition focus on the theme: Informatics Transforms and Renews. The full set of keynote speakers and the preliminary program are available on the ECSS 2018 website. ECSS 2018 - quick links: Speakers Program Registration Accommodation Venue We hope that you will join us for an exciting Summit this year. Up-to-date information about the Summit can be found on the ECSS 2018 website and our Twitter account @informatics_eu with hashtag #ecss_2018. Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads, 8 October This year’s Workshop for Deans and Heads of Informatics Departments is dedicated to the topic: Personal Development, with a focus on special skills and management training needed by deans and professors on the one hand and PhD strategy and career training on the other. The workshop is co-chaired by Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University), Gregor Engels (Paderborn University) and Mehdi Jazayeri (University of Lugano). You can register for only the Pre-summit Workshop, and/or for the whole ECSS 2018. IMPORTANT: Early-bird fees are available until September 8! Workshop for Deans and Department Heads - quick links: Workshop speakers and program Registration 2018 Awards Winners to be announced at ECSS 2018 Winners of the 2018 edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award, with a focus this year on encouraging female students to enroll in Informatics programs and the Best Practices and Education Award, devoted to innovative Informatics teaching practices, will be announced at an award ceremony on October 9 during ECSS 2018. The award ceremony, jointly organized by ERCIM, will also announce the winner of the 2018 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. Winners of the three awards will be invited to give a short talk on their achievements. Member survey: your opinion matters We have seen our membership growing over the last couple of years to more than 120 institutions. The association is run by the board on behalf of you, our members, so we need to understand your views of the organization. As the membership grows we become more representative of the field and are able to invest in new activities and services. The board is always open to new ideas to improve the association's member experience. We would be very grateful if you could take 10 minutes of your time to complete the online survey by September 10. The outcome will be shared during the Annual General Assembly held on October 9 at ECSS 2018. Pledge against lethal autonomous weapons Informatics Europe recently endorsed the pledge against lethal autonomous weapons launched by the Future of Life Institute. The social and ethical impact of new informatics technologies and particularly of Artificial Intelligence affects both citizens and governments. As an organization we strongly advocate for regulations and international agreements to prevent and prohibit unacceptable uses of AI. To this end, the Ethics Working Group published the report "When Computers Decide: European Recommendations on Machine-Learned Automated Decision Making" in March this year. ERCIM News: call for contributions The latest issue of ERCIM News (114 – July 2018) has recently been published and features a special theme on 'Human-Robot Interaction' coordinated by Serena Ivaldi (Inria) and Maria Pateraki (FORTH-ICS). The next issue to appear in October will focus on the theme ‘Digital Twins’. Submissions from Informatics Europe members are welcome. The Call for Contributions is open until August 28. Association News Follow us on Twitter Recent news about Informatics Europe activities and events is now available on Twitter under the username @informatics_eu. ECSS updates are published using the hashtag #ecss_2018. Please send an email to administration@informatics-europe.org to add your institution to allow us to follow your institution and it would help the visibility of the community if all our members followed us. New Members We are happy to welcome the following 4 new Members: Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Computing - Ireland University Autonoma de Barcelona, Engineering School - Spain TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Dept. of Computer Engineering - Turkey Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science - Denmark. Our first member in Turkey widens our representation in Europe, now totalling 31 countries and 124 institutions. Our list of members is available on the website. Board Meetings The Informatics Europe Board met by teleconference on June 29. Items on the agenda included: ECSS 2018 and progress reports of current working groups and long term development. Next Board Meetings: Friday, July 27, 16:00-17:00, Skype Friday, August 31, 16:00-17:00, Skype Friday, September 28, 16:00-17:00, Skype Sunday, October 7, 14:30-17:30, @ECSS 2018, Gothenburg As a member representative, you are welcome to submit agenda items and to participate as an observer in Board meetings. Please send an email to administration@informatics-europe.org if you would like to attend the meeting in Gothenburg. Members News University of Maribor, Slovenia Excellence in Communication Award - The Slovenian Scientific Foundation awarded the Institute of Computer Science, University of Maribor (Slovenia) the "Prometheous Of Science" 2017 for excellence in communication. The jury highlighted the development of various communication forms and techniques to raise citizens’ awareness of the importance of research in the fields covered by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and for the promotion of technical careers in the country. Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Best Data Showcase Award in MSR' 18 and JA Start-up Contest - Antonis Gortzis and Dimitris Mitropoulos (Business Analytics Lab, Department of Management Science and Technology) supervised by Diomides Spinellis received the Best Data Showcase Award during the ‘MSR' 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories’. Earlier this year Christos Tarantilis advised another winning team of students through the ‘JA Start Up Contest’ on a Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship project. This space is reserved to post relevant news from our member institutions. If you would like to include a piece of news in our next Bulletin (September 2018) please contact Pepa Echanove before September 5. New Jobs @Informatics Europe Job Platform Your department/institute can advertise vacancies on the Informatics Europe job platform. The job service is free of charge to our members. Example recent openings on the Informatics Europe online Job Platform: 2 Research Associate positions in Verification of Learning-enabled Cyber-physical Systems - Imperial College London, UK. Deadline: 31 July 2018 Post-doc positions in Biomedical Engineering and Software Engineering (6 months) - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic. Deadline: 01 August 2018 PhD candidate in 3D Image Understanding of Indoor Scenes - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Deadline: 01 August 2018 Senior researcher in Engineering Intelligent Autonomous Systems and PhD position in Engineering Intelligent Autonomous Systems - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Deadline: 02 August 2018 6 Research Group Leader Positions and 6 Postdoc Positions - University of Tartu, Estonia. Deadline: 02 August 2018 Senior Research Fellow of Mixed Reality - University of Tartu, Estonia. Deadline: 02 August 2018 2 Research Associate positions at the Quantum group - University of Edinburgh, UK. Deadline: 03 August 2018 6 Professorships in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence - University of Groningen, Netherlands. Deadline: 15 August 2018 PhD Student on 'Quantum algorithms in a practical setting'- CWI, Netherlands. Deadline: 31 August 2018 Professor Positions in Humanities and Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Deadline: 09 September 2018 Chair in Digital Financial Services (PayPal - FNR PEARL) - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Deadline: 15 September 2018 Chair in Machine Learning (Full or Associate professor) - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Deadline: 15 September 2018 Tenure Track Professorships in Trustworthy Software Technologies, Hardware Security and Trust, Internet of Intelligent Things - Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Deadline: 15 September 2018 PhD student positions in software engineering/formal methods - USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Post-doc and researcher positions in Trustworthy Software Technologies, Hardware Security and Trust, Internet of Intelligent Things - Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. *** We wish our readers and members a happy and refreshing summer break! Our Bulletin will be back in September with more news and updates about our activities and services.



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