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.

 

11^th OCTOBER

(During the day) - Pre-Summit Workshops

18:00- Welcome party at the Diplomat Hotel

 

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12^th 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

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13^th 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

12^th–13^th October 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
With pre-summit workshops on 11^th October 2010

 

“Informatics: The Changing Landscape”

ECSS 2010 is the 2010 Summit of deans, department chairs and senior faculty of leading European Computer Science and Informatics faculties, departments, research institutes and laboratories. Like its predecessors, ECSS 2010 is the meeting place for anyone interested in issues of research, education and policy in informatics. For the first time in its history, ECSS moves to the Eastern half of the continent and takes place in Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, filled with cultural, artistic and historical references.

• Conference Co-chairs: Bertrand Meyer (ETH Zürich), Pavel Tvrdík (CTU in Prague)
• Department Chair Workshop Organizer: Jørgen Staunstrup (IT U. of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• EQANIE Workshop Organizer: Hans-Ulrich Heiß (TU Berlin, Germany)

Informatics (Computer Science/Computing) is the discipline of the future: the key to many new developments in science, innovations in industry, and novel services in the information society. Yet, the impact and expectation of ICT pose great challenges to all faculties, departments and research institutes in Informatics worldwide.

Our program

As for the previous Summits, the program consists of special invited talks, workshops, panels and other interactive sessions devoted to common issues, problems and proposals.

Special features of the 2010 Summit are as follows:

• Pre-summit workshop for Department chairs and Research Directors led by Jørgen Staunstrup on 11^th October 2010
• Pre-summit EQANIE workshop led by Hans-Ulrich Heiß, again on 11^th October 2010
• Special focus on: “Informatics: The Changing Landscape”
• Submitted talks on “Informatics: The Changing Landscape” by colleagues from all over Europe (see the Call for Submissions)

Featured speakers

• Franco Accordino, European Commission
• Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano
• Patrick Furrer, Euresearch (Switzerland)
• Carlo Ghezzi, ERC advanced investigator grant recipient, Politecnico di Milano,
• Jan Gruntorád, CESNET (Czech Republic)
• Wendy Hall, 2008-2010 president of the ACM, University of Southampton
• Sabine Kruspig, Director of the computer section, European Patent Office
• Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research
• Jan Sedivy, former director, IBM Research Czech Republic and Technical Leading Manage, Google
• Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google
• Andrey Terekhov, St. Petersburg State University and Director, Tercom
• Moshe Vardi, editor-in-chief of communications of the ACM, Rice University (US)

 

Audience

The ECSS audience includes anyone with a stake in the future of Information Technology research and education in Europe. Traditionally, many department heads, directors of both industrial and academic labs, and other decision makers make up a substantial share of ECSS participants.

 

Special Sponsorship for Eastern European Participants

Informatics Europe is proud to announce the availability of a limited number of sponsorships for attendance at the ECSS 2010, made possible by a generous grant from Google encouraging the participation of universities from Eastern European countries. The sponsorships will cover approximately 40 participants and are available first-come, first-served. They include the full registration fee of ECSS (including proceedings, lunches, conference dinner and all other ECSS activities, except pre-conference workshops) as well as accommodation in the conference hotel for two nights. Eligible participants are faculty members from universities in Eastern European countries (the list of eligible countries appears below).

Informatics Europe and the organizing committee of ECSS 2010 would like to thank Google for this generous incentive and hope to count with a broad audience from Easter European countries.

How to benefit from the special Eastern European Sponsorship:

• Register before July 31 at the Registration page
• Check the box "Requesting Special Eastern European Sponsorship" on the registration form

You will be notified of acceptance by August 15. For any questions, please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

List of eligible countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Republic of Macedonia, Russian Federation, Ukraine.

 

What is the purpose of the European Computer Science Summit?

• To create an international network of deans, heads of departments, and research directors in Informatics.
• To provide a forum for discussion and the exchange of solutions and best practices on common issues.
• To examine ways in which deans, department heads, and research directors in Informatics can work together to improve teaching and research, implement the Bologna process, can influence the policies of their universities, governments and the EU, and take joint initiatives on many other issues.
• To provide a liaison with other groups pursuing relevant interests, such as the CRA in the US.

The successful 2007 Summit (ECSS 2007), 2008 Summit (ECSS 2008) and 2009 Summit (ECSS 2009) were held respectively in Berlin, in Zürich and in Paris.

 

Sponsors