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Nominate a Distinguished Speaker for ACM's DSP Program
from ACM Europe Council Chair Fabrizio Gagliardi 
Dear ACM Member,
ACM's Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) makes top technology leaders and
distinguished computer scientists available for lectures on a variety of computing topics. The program was recently
expanded to make these speakers available to colleges and universities, corporations, event and conference planners,
and agencies in addition to local ACM chapters. But the number of Distinguished Speakers in the ACM Distinguished
Speakers Programme who are European or working in Europe is relatively small. Nominating a colleague (or yourself)
as an ACM Distinguished Speaker will help bring this valuable program to new communities in Europe.
Candidates are required to have at least 5 years of industry or academic experience.
Nomination forms are submitted online to the ACM Distinguished
Speakers Program Committee for approval. More information on the process can be found on the
DSP Procedures & Guidelines page.
I strongly encourage all of you to nominate someone you know who can convey the excitement, challenge and potential
of computer science to new European audiences.
Many thanks in advance,
Fabrizio
Fabrizio Gagliardi is Europe, Middle East and Africa Director for External Research, Microsoft Research.
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ACM Europe Council
Featured ACM Europe Council Member: Avi Mendelson
Avi Mendelson is manager of academic outreach and external research at the Microsoft Israel R& D Center. He is also an
adjunct professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
At Technion, Mendelson conducts research and teaches courses on Cloud Computing, parallel and distributer architectures, GPGPU
(general-purpose computing on graphics processing units), virtualization, low power design, and speculation in computer
architectures. As Principal Engineer at Intel from 1999 to 2009, Mendelson was the CMP architect of the Intel Core Duo and
Intel Core-2 Duo processors. He has served on committees for the PACT, ASPLOS, ISCA and ICS, the ACM International Conference
on Supercomputing. He serves on the advisory board of HiPEAC Network of Excellence and is involved in many other activities as
part of the EU research community. He is co-chair of this year's ACM Distinguished Member Commmittee.
He is a noted lecturer on multicore and manycore technologies, and has published more than 60
papers. Mendelson received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts, and MS and BS degrees in
Computer Science from Technion.
Avi Mendelson's ACM Digital Library author page.
Distinguished Speakers Program
Featured ACM European Distinguished Speaker: Alexander Wolf
The Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) is one of ACM's most valued outreach programs,
providing universities, corporations, event and conference planners, and local ACM chapters with direct access to top
technology leaders and innovators from nearly every sector of the computing industry.
Alexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London (UK), and holds an
affiliated appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder (US). Previously, he was a
professor in the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano (Switzerland) and a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell
Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey (US). His research interests are directed toward the discovery of principles and
development of technologies to support the engineering of large, complex software systems. He has published in the areas of
software engineering, distributed systems, networking, security, and database management. Wolf serves as Secretary-Treasurer
of ACM and is a member of the Executive Committee of the ACM Council. He is also an ACM Fellow, and received the ACM SIGSOFT
Research Impact Award. He serves on the editorial board of the Research Highlights section of Communications of the ACM, and
previously served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. He served as Chair of
the ACM Special Interest Group Governing Board (SGB), and Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
(SIGSOFT).
"The creation of ACM Europe is recognition of the important role that we, the ACM members in Europe, have played in 'Advancing
Computing as a Science and Profession'," says Wolf. "The Europe Council should be seen as a tool
for our use, both to inform and influence policy decisions of the larger association and to serve as a vehicle for shaping
the nature of computing education, practice, and education in Europe. I encourage you to actively engage with ACM Europe
and help further its important aims."
Learn more about Alexander Wolf and read abstracts of his lectures on his
DSP speaker information page.
Alexander Wolf's ACM Digital Library author page
Conferences and Events
Web Science Is Growing Up: Interdisciplinary Insights and a Maturing Community at WebSci '11
by Clare Hooper, Eindhoven University of Technology
ACM Web Science 2011, the Third International Conference on Web Science, which ran from
June 14 to 17 in Koblenz, Germany, is one of the more interdisciplinary ACM conferences: unlike WWW, which focuses on
infrastructure, standards and development, Web Science concerns the Web as an unfolding process. It examines the Web and our
society, including politics, economics and law.
Why is Web Science important? The Web is so much more than the sum of its parts. Web Science helps us understand the complex
multiplicity of socio-technical interactions—both micro and macro—enabled by the Web and the millions who
contribute to that Web. We need that understanding to make informed decisions, whether we're discussing standards and
infrastructures or government policy—or, as Professor Barry Wellman observed in his keynote "Networked Individualism,"
trying to understand the ways in which online social networks fail to support the richness and dynamism of human relations.
This year's conference was a stellar event. One highlight was the diverse, top-quality poster session, with 85 posters on topics
from trust and privacy to healthcare; education to network analysis; and user experiences to music folksonomies. Other highlights
could be found in the paper sessions: these included the sound contributions nominated for best paper (which went to two papers,
on user churn in social networks, and online clandestine organisations); Alan Dix's philosophical questioning of the nature of
knowledge and truth; and Mark Bernstein's poetic delivery of his analysis of the fragility of the Web's long tail.
There was genuinely interdisciplinary work present at WebSci '11, and it was this work that really shone. Generally, such work
was coauthored by people from different "home" disciplines, and it was notable that Web Science students with supervisors from
different disciplines stood out. There's a key lesson here: it's essential to get to grips with multiple disciplines, both for
research and for teaching.
The curriculum workshop bore witness to the maturing of the WebSci community, with nearly 40 attendees from 17 institutions,
14 of which are running or planning to run a Web Science program. Defining the curriculum of a nascent discipline is no
small task, but there exists some fine work here, not only towards building and honing such a curriculum, but also explaining
that process: Su White et al's work on this
("Negotiating the Web Science Curriculum through Shared Educational Artefacts")
was a best paper nominee.
More than anything, I came away with an impression that this is a maturing community. I've had the privilege of attending
all three Web Science conferences, and it's been a pleasure to see the community growing up—from the 2009 event in
Athens where no one quite knew what to expect, through being collocated with the Web conference in Raleigh, to this year as
an ACM- and ICA-affiliated event. WebSci '11 felt balanced, and had a little gravitas that the previous two did not.
It was an inspiring event for a vibrant, growing community: here's to WebSci '12.
Upcoming Conferences
SIGDOC' 11: 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, October 3 - 5, Pisa, Italy
With SIGDOC 2011, ACM's Special Interest Group on Design of Communication aims to
continue expanding its creative interactions and energies in Europe. Attendees will have an opportunity to gain knowledge from
papers, workshops, posters, and experience reports concerning processes, methods, and technologies for communicating and
designing communication artifacts such as printed documents, online text, serious games and hypermedia applications. The Diana
Award will be presented to an organization, institution, or business for its long-term contribution to the field of communication
design.
SOSP '11: ACM SIGOPS 23nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Oct. 23 - 26; and SOCC '11: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, Oct. 27-28, Cascais, Portugal
SOSP 2011, the biennial ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, is the
world's premier forum for researchers, developers, programmers, and teachers of computer systems technology. Academic and
industrial participants present research and experience papers that cover the full range of theory and practice of computer
systems software.
SOCC 2011, the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, is the second in a new series of
symposia with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing.
ACM SOCC is held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD and ACM SOSP conferences in alternate years. This year, it will be held in
conjunction with SOSP. The scope of SOCC Symposia will be broad and will encompass diverse systems topics such as software as a
service, virtualization, and scalable cloud data services.
ASSETS '11: The 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Oct. 24 - 26, Dundee, Scotland
ASSETS 2011 explores the use of computing and information technologies to help
persons with disabilities and older adults. ASSETS is the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use
of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies. Session topics include assistive technology design paradigms; navigation
and wayfinding; user-centered design; sign language comprehension; multimedia; web accessibility; and mobile and ubiquitous user
interfaces. Also on tap are many poster sessions on cutting-edge topics, and the Student Research Competition. The opening keynote
address will be "Living in a World of Data," by Alan Dix, professor of human computer interaction at Lancaster University.
CIKM '11: International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Oct. 24-28, Glasgow, Scotland
CIKM 2011 brings together leading researchers and developers from the database,
information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. Workshops, tutorials, papers, posters, demos, and panels will cover
topics ranging from biomedical informatics to social media. An Industry Event will present state-of-the-art developments in information
retrieval, knowledge management, databases, and data mining, delivered as keynote talks by influential technical leaders who work
in industry: Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research; John Giannandrea, Google; Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera; Khalid Al-Kofahi,
Thomson Reuters; and speakers Chavdar Botev, LinkedIn; David Hawking, Funnelback; Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo! Research;
Ed Chi, Google Research; Ilya Segalovich, Yandex; and Ben Greene, SAP Research.
EvoStar 2012: European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, April 11-13, 2012, Malaga, Spain
EvoStar 2012 comprises the premier colocated conferences in the field of
evolutionary computing: eurogp, evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications.
Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, EvoStar topics include recent genetic programming challenges,
evolutionary and other meta-heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, machine learning and
data mining techniques in the biosciences, in numerical optimization, in music and art domains, in image analysis and signal
processing, in hardware optimization and in a wide range of applications to scientific, industrial, financial and other
real-world problems. Paper submissions are now open; the
deadline is November 30.
Chapters News
Outstanding Professional Chapter: German ACM Chapter
"With the motto 'Professionals for Professionals' since our founding, we are promoting lifelong learning," stated Gerhard Schimpf,
Chair of the German Chapter of the ACM, when he signed a document of understanding with
DIA, the Deutsche Informatik Akademie. DIA is a not-for-profit provider of quality computer science education offering a
substantial discount for members of the German Chapter of the ACM. "We link ourselves consciously with organizations pursuing
similar goals and support our members with relevant offerings, including our own conferences and workshops," he said.
The chapter was a sponsor of
SACMAT (ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies), held
in Innsbruck, Austria in June. The symposium is a forum for researchers and users to discuss new results in IT security. In May, the German chapter,
along with a software quality group, held a seminar on "Economic computer science—trust in the 'cloud'?" Also in May,
the chapter cooperated with other software groups to organize Software Engineering Live,
which offered workshops on new methods and techniques that are already being used in real projects. Invited speakers gave talks on
agile methods and quality assurance; IT-landscape modeling; requirements tracking; and risk-based testing. The chapter also
supports software engineering education initiatives at universities in German-speaking countries, and participates in and participates in
social media such as Facebook and XING, an online forum where members from more than 200 countries
around the world can share expertise and make contact.
ACM Student Chapters in Europe
ACM Professional Chapters in Europe
Publications News
Featured ICPS Conference Proceedings: 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (i-KNOW 2011)
ICPS is ACM's International Conference Proceedings Series, which enables conferences and workshops to publish their proceedings
in ACM's Digital Library, providing maximum dissemination of the material through electronic channels. In this issue we are
featuring the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (i-KNOW 2011),
which took place September 7 to 9, 2011 in Graz, Austria. The conference, organized by
Know-Center GmbH and Graz University of Technology, featured special tracks on Theory and Applications of Visual Analytics, and
Recommendation, Data Sharing and Research Practices in Science 2.0; and sessions on Semantic Content Engineering, the Pragmatic Web,
Knowledge Work, Web Science and Content, the Semantic Web, Social Media, Studies, Metrics and Benchmarks, Text Mining, Semantic
Business Technologies, and much more. This proceedings volume includes texts of keynote speeches and papers presented at the
conference.
See the full list of conferences in the ACM ICPS Series.
ACM in the News
"Deep Sleep Wi-Fi Could Improve Phone Battery Life"
eWeek Europe, September 21, 2011
A University of Michigan professor and a doctoral student will present a new method to extend the battery life of smartphones and
other electronic equipment at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) in Las Vegas this week.
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