ERCIM News 135
October 2023
Special theme Climate Resilient Society
Guest editors Athina Lykos (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology) and Sobah Abbas Peterson (NTNU)
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Call for Proposals
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik is accepting proposals for scientific seminars/workshops in all areas of computer science, in particular also in connection with other fields.
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Grenoble, France, 19-23 February 2024
The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare - SPRING [L1] seeks to develop Socially Assistive Robots with the capacity of performing multi-person interactions and open-domain dialogue in a gerontological healthcare institution. Starting in 2020, it has produced ground-breaking research to allow robots to move, see, hear and communicate with several actors in complex and unstructured populated spaces.
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The ERCIM members Inria and CWI, two leading European research institutes in computer science and mathematics, have launched a new intensive research collaboration to tackle major societal challenges in the coming years. These challenges include:
- Digital Energy: Developing new solutions to manage the electricity grid more efficiently and sustainably, using computer science and mathematics to predict network usage and balance supply and demand.
- European ICT: Developing ICT systems that are aligned with European values, such as user control and privacy.Human interaction in a virtual world: Developing new technologies to enable more natural and engaging interactions between people in virtual environments.