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Dear Members,
Welcome to the April edition of our monthly Bulletin. We hope you enjoy it!
In this issue:
Informatics Europe New Executive Director
Informatics Europe is very happy to welcome Ms Nuria Anguera who started working as Executive Director on 22 March 2021. Spanish, living in Zurich since 2004, Nuria holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering (ICAI - Madrid) and further education in General Management at Harvard. With close to 20 years of international experience in Strategy and Business Development, Nuria is committed to maximizing the value of our network to boost Informatics Europe growth and visibility and increase the services offered to our members and the entire European Informatics Community.
Ms Anguera is replacing Dr Cristina Pereira who has been the Informatics Europe Executive Director since May 2010. Cristina contributed to bringing our organization from 57 to the over 150 members we are today and was instrumental in numerous activities, such as the EUGAIN COST action. Informatics Europe thanks Dr Pereira for her outstanding contribution and dedicated work over these past eleven years and wishes Ms Anguera a successful and fruitful path as Informatics Europe new Executive Director.
She can be contacted by email at nuria.anguera@informatics-europe.org.
Ethics4EU Online Event: "Dealing with the Complexities of Teaching Ethics to Future Computing Professionals"
Informatics Europe as a partner in the Erasmus+ Project Ethics4 EU - Ethical Computer Science Education for Europe organized an Ethics4EU Online Event on 22 April 2021, with the main theme "Dealing with the Complexities of Teaching Ethics to Future Computing Professionals". The event was a great success and welcomed over 60 participants from all over Europe. During the four-hour morning Zoom session, prominent speakers provided insightful presentations on the topic at stake, followed by a discussion panel with experts in Ethics, academics, and professionals working in areas, roles or projects where ethical or legal aspects take the central stage.
The video recordings and slides of the event are now available for download on the Ethics4EU Event website.
European Values for Ethics in Digital Technology – Research Report
Digital ethics deals with the impact of digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on our societies and the environment at large. It covers a wide spectrum of societal impacts including issues such as data governance, privacy and personal data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithmic decision-making and pervasive technologies. The report contains a number of guidelines (extracted from both literature and sessions with stakeholders) that can be used by teachers and lecturers in Computer Science faculties to create and deliver Digital Ethics related content.
You can find out more and download the full report here.
8th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing:
womENcourage™ 2021
Open to all genders, womENcourage™ initiated by ACM-W Europe is aimed at connecting women from diverse technical disciplines and encouraging them to pursue their education and profession in computing. This year’s ACM womENcourage 2021 (22-24 September) goes with the main theme Bridging Communities to Foster Innovation and Informatics Europe will be one of the Supporters of the conference, providing selected students from our member institutions with Scholarship (free registration, application via the Scholarship section at the website).
With the deadline on 1 May 2021, the conference welcomes poster and short tutorial/workshop submissions from all areas of Computer Science regarding the main theme. In addition, your PhD students are also welcomed to join the Hackathon, Career Fair and apply for a scholarship.
Please share the news in your community and stay tuned by visiting the conference website.
Association News
Board Meetings
- Friday, 30 April, 16:00-17:00, online
- Thursday, 20 May and Friday, 21 May, 13:00-17:00, online (Executive Committee Only)
- Friday, 28 May and Monday, 31 May, 09:30-12:30, online
Don’t forget: As a member representative, you can submit agenda topics and participate as an observer in Board meetings. Let us know in case you are interested in this offer!
New Informatics Europe Members
We are very pleased to welcome the following 5 new members:
They joined a growing membership of over 145 institutions from 34 European countries. Check out our current member list.
Members News
Aarhus University, Denmark - MatchPoints 2021: Democracy and Culture in the Digital Age
Digitalisation is everywhere, but also more ambiguous than ever before. It connects us and divides us, it spearheads innovation and entrenches inequalities, it expands democratic debate and breaks it into bubbles. The world faces an almost endless set of changes and challenges. Pandemics and polarisation. Climate change and censorship. Big data and blockchain. Cyberattacks and conspiracy theories. Fake news and whistleblowers. AI and virtual reality. What they all have in common is digitalisation.
MatchPoints brings together internationally acclaimed researchers, journalists, politicians, and business leaders to explore a rapidly changing world, where digital technologies, social media, and the internet play an ever-bigger role.
For further information, please click here.
Politecnico di Milano, Italy - European Space Agency co-funds a HEAP Lab research project on Spacecraft Computers
Federico Reghenzani, post-doc at DEIB, proposed the three-year research project "Mixed-Criticality Fault-Tolerant Systems for the Future Generation of Spacecraft Computers", which has been selected by the Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP) programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The project, co-funded by ESA and DEIB's HEAP Lab, will be developed by Reghenzani under the supervision of Prof. William Fornaciari.
The project goal is to investigate how to integrate several real-time applications, with multiple criticalities, on a single computing platform. The scientific challenges include the mixed-criticality schedulability analysis of the real-time tasks and the necessity to guarantee high resilience to faults, a significant problem present in the extreme environmental conditions of space.
The presence in this project of both the university component with DEIB and the final user represented by ESA makes possible, on the one hand, the investigation of novel academic solutions, and, on the other hand, the access to ESA ESTEC laboratories to validate the project outputs on real space-graded hardware and software.
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