Informatics Europe Bulletin: Countdown to ECSS 2021 – are you ready?

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	Informatics Europe Bulletin - October 2021

	Dear Members, Welcome to the October edition of our Bulletin. ECSS 2021 is approaching! In this edition, we provide you the latest update of our annual summit as well as other exciting activities happening this month. In this issue: Countdown to ECSS 2021 – are you ready? IE webinars – Scientific & Career Development Questionnaire on Artificial Intelligence and Data in Education and Training Book Chapters in “Perspectives on Digital Humanism” Association News Board Meetings Executive Committee Meetings Members News New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform Countdown to ECSS 2021 – are you ready? ECSS 2021 will finally happen in Madrid from 25-27 October 2021! Please note these important updates: Official opening scheduled at 10:45 CET, Oct 25th (originally at 11:00) by Prof. Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe President Ana Isabel Cremades Rodríguez, Director General for Research and Technological Innovation Prof. Guillermo Cisneros, UPM Rector Spouses welcome at Tuesday’s official dinner: the ease of covid restrictions in Madrid allows us to offer this possibility, for a 100EUR fee. Please book through ECSS2021@aimgroup.eu. Limited travel grants available: Registration of the Early Career Researchers workshop remains open but no more submission of CVs and research statements are required/accepted. A limited number of travel grants is still available. Don’t miss it! Venue changed: due to unexpected logistic circumstances, the Summit’s venue moves from INEF to Escuela Técnica de Edificatción, another UPM building opposite to INEF. Other logistic arrangements will remain unchanged. Online registration ends on Oct 22nd (on-site registrations possible; see conditions online). Convert your registration until Oct 15th from virtual to in-person participation and vice versa, any online change thereafter will only be considered if it results from last-minute new official (COVID) restriction measures. Check our registration guidelines here. IE webinars – Scientific & Career Development On 22 September, our inaugural IE scientific webinar “Storing and Analyzing Viral Sequences through Data-driven Genomic Computing” by Prof. Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano) took place successfully with over 100 participants joining us from all over the world. A dedicated link to this recorded webinar has been emailed to our registered participants. The recorded webinar will also be available to all on our Informatics Europe YouTube channel from 23 Oct onwards. Three more scientific and career development webinars will take place: Thriving as a Doctoral Student in Informatics. Date: 8 October 2021, 10:30-12:00 CET Facilitators: Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick, TU Wien, Austria, Prof. Austen Rainer, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Register here. SMT Solving: Past, Present and Future. Date: 21 October 2021 at 17:00 CET Speaker: Prof. Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University. Register here. Power of Algorithms in Discrete Optimisation. Date: 25 November 2021 at 17:00 CET Speaker: Prof. Stanislav Živný, University of Oxford. Register here. More webinars on diverse topics will be announced soon on our webinar page – please stay tuned! Questionnaire on Artificial Intelligence and Data in Education and Training IE is part of the European Commission expert group on AI and data in education and training, which works on the development of ethical guidelines for this field. IE designated representative is Viola Schiaffonati, Associate Professor – Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano. To enable Prof. Schiaffonatti bringing forwards not only her own experience, but also our view-points as IE community, we have invited IE members through email to complete a questionnaire on artificial intelligence and data in education and training. It aims at collecting our members’ opinion on the topic while assessing their interest in being further involved in this project, in particular, in joining the IE task force which shall provide input to Prof. Schiaffonatti throughout the duration of the expert group call. We look forward to receiving your questionnaire answers on or before 10 Oct 2021. Book Chapters in “Perspectives on Digital Humanism” IE President Prof. Enrico Nardelli (Università di Roma “Tor Vergaa”) and IE Board Member Dr. Michael Caspersen (IT-vest) have both contributed a chapter respectively to the book “Perspectives on Digital Humanism”. The book is a collection of 46 articles from experts with different disciplinary and institutional backgrounds who provide their view on the interplay of human and machine. The book is now available online: • The entire Perspectives on Digital Humanism book • Chapter by Prof. Enrico Nardelli: “The Unbearable Disembodiedness of Cognitive Machines” • Chapter by Dr. Michael Caspersen: “Informatics as a Fundamental Discipline in General Education – The Danish Perspecive” The book will also be published by Springer as a printed version later this year Association News Board Meetings Sunday, 24 October, 13:30-17:30, Madrid/online Friday, 26 November, 16:00-17:00, 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! Executive Committee Meetings (Executive Committee only) Thursday, 28 October, 09:00-16:00, Madrid/online Wednesday–Thursday, 1-2 December, 13:00-17:00, online Members News Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Nicola Gatti appointed EurAI Fellow 2021 Prof. Nicola Gatti of Politecnico di Milano’s Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegne-ria has been appointed EurAI Fellow 2021. The EurAI Fellows program was launched in 1999 to distinguish people who gave significant and lasting contributions to the field of artificial intelligence in Europe. The EurAI Fellows Program hon-ours only a small number of researchers, up to a maximum of 3% of the European researchers in artificial intelligence. It is commonly considered the most prestigious European lifetime achievement award for artificial intelligence. The appointment is motivated by the candidate’s established scientific achievements, assessed on the basis of clear evidence of excellence, including participation in top international conferences and publications on the most prestigious scientific journals. It is the first time that an academic from Politecnico di Milano has been appointed EurAI Fellow. * This space is available to include relevant news from our member institutions. If you would like to share your news, please contact Kit Wan Chui. New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform There are 19 new job openings on the Informatics Europe Job Platform! Advertise and extend your search to attract the best candidates for your open positions on the IE job platform free of charge**!



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