Conference Program
Slides from the conference presentations are available to dowload.
You can also download the conference proceedings in PDF with a small update over the printed version.
For the pre-summit workshops program and presentation slides please visit the Pre-Summit Workshops page.
11th OCTOBER
(During the day) - Pre-Summit Workshops
18:00- Welcome party at the Diplomat Hotel
12th OCTOBER
08:00-08:30 Registration
08:30-08:45 Welcome and introduction
- Pavel Tvrdík, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
- Bertrand Meyer, President of Informatics Europe, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
08:45-10:15 Keynotes
Session chair: Bertrand Meyer, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
- 08:45-09:30 - Moshe Vardi, Rice University, editor-in-chief of communications of the ACM
"The Tragedy of the Computing-Research Commons" [Slides]
- 09:30-10:15 - Jan Sedivy, formerly director of IBM Research Czech Republic and Technical Leading Manager of Google
"Voice: The New UI for Mobile Devices" [Slides]
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Keynotes
Session chair: Hans-Ulrich Heiss, TU Berlin, Germany
- 10:45-11:30 - Sabine Kruspig, European Patent Office, Director of the Computer Section
"Computer-implemented inventions at the European Patent Office" [Slides]
11:30-12:15 Discussion Panel
Moderator: Bertrand Meyer, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
Panelists:
- Sabine Kruspig, European Patent Office
- Moshe Vardi, Rice University
12:15-13:00 Current Informatics Europe Initiatives
- 12:15-12:45 - Informatics Europe Department Evaluation [Slides]
- 12:45-13:00 - Informatics Europe Research & Education Portal [Slides]
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Keynote
Session chair: Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- 14:30-15:15 - Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, ERC advanced investigator grant recipient
"European funding for long-term research: facts and a personal perspective"[Slides]
15:15-16:45 Special Session "European research funding: understanding it, obtaining it, and applying it"
Session chairs: Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
- 15:15-15:45 - Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano
"Lessons learned after some years of proposals"[Slides]
- 15:45-16:15 - Patrick Furrer, Euresearch Switzerland, Vice-Director
"ICT research in Switzerland, the National Contact Point of View"[Slides]
- 16:15-16:45 - Jan Gruntorád, CESNET, Director
"Impact of e-Infrastructures on ICT Research"[Slides]
16:45-17:15 Coffee break
17:15-18:00 Panel/Discussion: European Research Funding
Moderator: Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Panelists:
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano
- Patrick Furrer, Euresearch Switzerland
- Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano
- Jan Gruntorád, CESNET
19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner
13th OCTOBER
08:00-08:30 Registration
08:30-09:15 Informatics Europe - General Assembly
Session chair: Bertrand Meyer, President of Informatics Europe, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
09:15-10:45 Keynotes
Session chair: Pavel Tvrdík, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
- 09:15-10:00 - Alfred Spector, Google, VP of Research and Special Initiatives
"Rapid Advances in Computer Science and Opportunities for Society"
- 10:00-10:45 - Andrey Terekhov, Saint-Petersburg State University and CEO of Lanit-Tercom
"Characteristics of Russian Outsourcing"[Slides]
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 - Wendy Hall, University of Southampton and ACM
"The Role of Learned Societies in the Digital Age" [Slides]
11:45-13:00 Parallel Sessions
Session I - Curricula Design
Session chair: Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
- Supercomputing Education: The Third Pillar of HPC [Slides]
Victor Gergel, Nizhni Novgorod State University, Russia
Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia - New Master Specialization in "Knowledge Engineering" [Slides]
Pavel Kordik, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Teaching Parallel Programming for IT Students ... Why, When, and How? [Slides]
Ahmed Wagueeh, Intel, Egypt
- Reporting on a Successful Experience in Educating Informatics Students in Communication Skills: Beyond a Single Subject towards the Full Curriculum [Slides]
Joan A. Pastor-Collado, Maria Jesus Marco-Galindo and Rafael Macau-Nadal, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
- Software Engineering Disciplines in Computing Curricula - An Experience of Two Romanian Universities [Slides]
Bazil Parv, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Session II - Education systems, methodologies, and practices
Session chair: Roumen Nikolov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- The Bologna Process and its Impact on MS Programs in Turkey: A Case Study at Atilim University [Slides]
Ali Yazici, Atilim University, Turkey
- Students as Catalyst of the Knowledge Economy: Evolution of Synergies between Companies and Universities [Slides]
Dietrich Kammer, Ingmar Franke and Rainer Groh, TU Dresden, Germany
- International Dimensions in Informatics Education at CTU [Slides]
Josef Kolar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Session III - Scientometrics and ICT research issues
Session chair: Jørgen Staunstrup, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- ResEval: A Mashup Platform for Research Evaluation [Slides]
Muhammad Imran, Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati and Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy
- Why is wrong to evaluate researchers in CS through journals and what can we do about it? [Slides]
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris and Marta Patino, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- The maintenance is the implementation OR Why people misunderstand IT systems [Slides]
Enrico Nardelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- Research Evaluation for Computer Science [Slides]
Bertrand Meyer, Informatics Europe, Switzerland
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Keynotes
Session chairs: Christine Choppy, Paris 13, France and Jan van Leeuwen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 14:30-15:15 - Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research
"What is Computation?"
- 15:15-16:00 - Franco Accordino, European Commission, Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures Directorate
"Digital Science and Its Impact on Scientific Societies"[Slides]
16:00-17:30 Special session "Future of European Scientific Societies in Informatics" [Report]
Discussion Panel
Moderator: Jan van Leeuwen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Panelists:
- Franco Accordino, European Commission
- Vasile Baltac, CEPIS
- Brian Bigalke, CreateNet
- Wendy Hall, ACM
- Keith Jeffery, ERCIM
- Jens Knoop, EAPLS
- Bertrand Meyer, Informatics Europe
- Burkhard Monien, EATCS
17:30-17:45 Closing Remarks
- Pavel Tvrdík, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
17:45-18:30 Closing Informal Discussions with Refreshments