ERCIM News 134
July 2023
Special theme Explainable AI
Guest editors Manjunatha Veerappa (Fraunhofer IOSB) and Salvo Rinzivillo (CNR-ISTI)
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The ERCIM EEIG board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Dominique Hazael-Massieux as the new manager of ERCIM EEIG, effective from June 2023. Dominique will be taking over from Philipp Hoschka, who has served as the manager since December 2016.
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by Léon Ouwerkerk, CWI, interviewed by Monica Divitini, as part of the ERCIM HR initiative to create awareness for diversity in the broadest sense.
Diversity remains an important topic. ERCIM News’ Monica Divitini interviewed Léon Ouwerkerk of CWI. Ouwerkerk: “At CWI, we think it is important that everyone feels safe to be themselves in the workplace. That is one of the reasons for us to take actions to reach more diversity, equity and inclusion. I am glad to be asked to tell you more about our policies”.
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by Peter Kunz (ERCIM)
A collaborative workshop on privacy, transparency, sovereignty, and security was held on 27-28 April 2023 at the Inria Mediterranean Campus in Sophia Antipolis. The workshop was co-organized by the European projects
TRAPEZE [L1] and E-CORRIDOR [L2], and co-sponsored by Inria and ERCIM. The two-day workshop aimed to explore new ideas, share insights and collaborate on solutions that can benefit society in the fields of privacy, cybersecurity, and technology. This report presents a brief overview of the presentations and discussions held during the workshop [L3].
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by Behçet Uğur Töreyin (İTÜ), Maria Trocan (ISEP) and Davide Moroni (ISTI-CNR)
Around fifty researchers attended the International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM), organized annually by the working group Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning (MUSCLE) of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), which took place as a satellite workshop of IEEE ICASSP 2023 held in Rhodes, Greece, June 5, 2023. This year's workshop was also a huge success as previous venues with two oral sessions and one poster session, hosting eighteen papers authored by seventy-three researchers affiliated with nineteen institutions coming from twelve countries.