The Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) has been inducted into the Seoul Accord as a Provisional Member at the recent Seoul Accord Meeting in Cambridge, UK.
CSSL President, Yasas Abeywickrama said it was an historic achievement for the society, IT higher education and Sri Lanka at large.
“Through the hard work of many individuals over […]
Congratulations to Laurens NAUDTS, Yefim SHULMAN and Sascha VAN SCHENDEL, who individually shared the award for the Best Student Paper at this month’s IFIP Summer School in Vienna.
Hosted by AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) from 20-24 August, the 13th IFIP Summer School took as its theme: “Privacy and Identity Management – Fairness, accountability and transparency […]
The 6th AI4KM (AI for Knowledge Management) workshop took place at Stockholm during IJCAI-18, bringing together the members of IFIP Working Group 12.6 and those interest in their endeavours.
The invited talk by Professor Helena Lindskog of Linkoping University was timely. She presented the results of an EU study on the relationship between globalisation and time, […]
Next month’s SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and Big Data.
The event, which runs from 19-23 August in London, includes 27 workshops, 37 tutorials, and keynotes by ACM fellow Jeannette Wing (Columbia University), David Hand (Imperial College), Alvin […]
The flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication will take place in Budapest from 20-24 August 2018.
SIGCOMM 20188 will focus on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols in the computer communication field.
Workshops will cover IoT, Big Data analytics, mobile edge communications, and more. Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), 2016 Athena Lecturer […]
The 2018 Open Living Lab Days (OLLD) are just weeks away. Participants will gather in Geneva from 22-24 August 2018 to explore and debate the role of citizens, open innovation and the potential of Living Labs in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This is your opportunity to discuss policy developments with high […]
The challenges and opportunities emerging with the societal impact of digital technologies was the topic addressed during the last TC3 Open Conference on Computers in Education hosted by the Austrian Society of Informatics in Linz (25-28 June 2018).
“Empowering the Learner for Life in the Digital Age” means addressing the omnipresence of digital technologies, their increasing […]
Sri Lanka’s President, Maithripala Sirisena, will be the chief guest at this year’s National Information Technology Conference (NITC), which will take place from 2-4 October 2018 in Colombo.
Organised by the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), NITC has taken the theme of “IT Changes Everything” for its 36th annual event, which expects to attract over […]
Interested in the potential for AI to change the planet? Then take a look at “Life 3.0 – Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence” by MIT Physics Professor Max Tegmark.
According to a review in The Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari, Life 3.0 offers a highly readable and wide-ranging look at the promises and perils of […]
The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists needs people in mathematical, computing and natural sciences, including students, to share their career and educational experiences.
The data being collected will include focused information about women in these fields.
The survey is being conducted through the end of October by The Gender Gap in Science project, […]
