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</span><a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html"><b><span
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Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2016 -</span></b><span
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<b>"Informatics Driving the Digital World"</b><br>
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</span><b><span
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2016, Budapest, Hungary</span></b><span
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Program Online</a><br>
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</b></span><b><a
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Workshop For Deans and Department Heads - 24 October 2016</span></a></b><span
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Dear Informatics Europe
Members, Dear Colleagues,<br>
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are happy to announce that the
program of the ECSS 2016 is now online and registrations are open.
As in previous years the program is very exciting, with some of
the world's most distinguished academics on the stage, the Summit
will not be short of inspiration and stimulation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The ECSS 2016 will be held in
Budapest, Hungary, October 24-26, hosted by the Faculty of
Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University. The central theme of this
year conference is <em><strong>"Informatics Driving the Digital
World"</strong></em>. <br>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Worldwide, efforts are multiplying
towards digitising all aspects of life and work in modern society.
The world simply becomes digital. People communicate and connect
over social digital media, economic and political decisions are
based on analysing digital data, mobility is supported by digital
devices, manufacturing is based on cyber-physical systems, health
systems are using globally interconnected knowledge bases, etc.
Informatics and Information Technology are at the core of all
these endeavours. New insights in theory and practice of
Informatics are fueling the innovative progress in each of these
application areas. With progress also come heightened
expectations. Stakeholders expect systems to become safer, more
complex, more performing, more affordable, and more easily
accessible. This opens a rare and remarkable opportunity for
Informatics, as a basic science and as an application field, to
leverage its in-depth knowledge to advance theory and practice,
and policy. Although existing information technologies have
tremendous potential to drive the digital world, significant
challenges will need to be overcome for them to fully realize this
potential. <br>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ECSS 2016 will focus on the
challenges for the Informatics discipline in driving the digital
world. Prominent academics, industry leaders and decision makers
will address the topic, offering food for thought in state of the
art lectures and engaging panel discussions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University, Germany<br>
</li>
<li>Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research, USA (tbc)<br>
</li>
<li>Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden</li>
<li>Manfred Broy, TU Munich, Germany</li>
<li>Anthony Finkelstein, The Alan Turing Institute, UK</li>
<li>Roland Jakab, Ericsson, Hungary</li>
<li>Willem Jonker, EIT Digital, Belgium</li>
<li>Laura Kovács, Vienna University of Technology, Austria</li>
<li>Domenico Laforenza, ERCIM, Italy</li>
<li>László Palkovics, Ministry of Higher Education, Hungary</li>
<li> Alexander Wolf, University of California Santa Cruz USA</li>
</ul>
For more details on the program please visit <a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/preliminary-program.html"
target="_self"><strong>ECSS 2016 Program</strong> </a> <br>
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<p><strong>CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS<br>
</strong></p>
<p>In order to reflect the spectrum of opinions, ECSS 2016 is
calling for submission of position papers on the central theme "<strong>Informatics
Driving the Digital World" </strong>and related topics.<br>
The position papers submitted will be screened, and if accepted,
be published on the Informatics Europe website as well as
submitted as CEUR-WS Proceedings. From the accepted position
papers 10 submissions will be invited for a poster presentation
during the ECCS 2016 conference in Budapest.<br>
</p>
<p>Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2016<br>
Authors notification: September 7, 2016<br>
To contribute: <strong><a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/call.html"
target="_self">check out the full call for contributions</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>REGISTRATION</strong></p>
<p>Registration for the conference is now open. To know more about
the different events and their registrations fees and to register
please visit <strong><a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/register.html">
ECSS 2016 Registration.</a></strong></p>
<p>Please mind the deadline for early discounted fees: <strong>September
15, 2016</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Register soon to profit the discounted prices!</strong></p>
<p><strong>For more practical information </strong><strong>about
the venue, traveling and accommodation, p</strong><strong>lease
visit the <a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">ECSS
2016 website</a>.<br>
</strong></p>
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