ACM Europe Tech Policy Leaders Lend Expertise to European Policy Panels
Leaders of the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee were featured presenters at two European policy events organised in February by the Science|Business Network (S|B).
ACM Europe TPC Chair Chris Hankin joined six experts from the European Commission, private sector, and academia for a webinar on AI: Who is liable? In addition, ACM Europe TPC Vice Chair Paola Inverardi joined five others for “Basic vs. applied: Getting the balance right between early-and late-stage R&D in Horizon,” a plenary session at S|B’s 2021 Annual Network Conference.
The two-day event featured prominent speakers from academia, industry, and the public and private sectors, as well as from the European Commission, including the EC’s Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, Innovation and Research Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, and Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides.
Featured People of ACM European Chapters: Athena Vakali
Athena Vakali is Professor and Vice Chair of the Informatics Department at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she leads the Data and Web Science Research Lab. Among her many professional activities, Vakali served as Program Chair for the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2019). She is a founding member of the Greek ACM-W Chapter and a mentor of the ACM-W Student Chapter at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Read her People of ACM interview.
Upcoming Online Conferences and Events
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Panel, 3 March
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates John Hennessey and David Patterson will participate in a panel on Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Computing Community being held as a joint session of several co-located virtual conferences on 3 March from 1:30 to 3:00 PM EST. ACM Fellow Timothy Pinkston organized and will moderate the panel, which also includes ACM Diversity and Inclusion Council Co-Chair Natalie Enright Jerger, ACM Fellow Margaret Martonosi, NVIDA Chief Scientist Bill Dally and Facebook’s Kim Hazelwood. The panel session is free and open to the public by registering here.
SAC 2021, 22 to 26 March
The ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing gathers computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing applications. Tracks will cover Bioinformatics; Cloud Computing; Evolutionary Computing; Health Informatics; Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems; Social Network and Media Analysis; and much more. Scheduled keynote speakers are Sang-Wook Kim (Hanyang University) and Pasi Fränti (University of Eastern Finland).
