ERCIM News 79
October 2009
Special theme Towards Green ICT
Guest editors Laurent Lefèvre (INRIA) and Jean-Marc Pierson (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 3)
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by Martin Newman
The Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) is a professional institute for the study and care of the historic environment in the United Kingdom. The Institute’s annual conference was held in Torquay in England from the 7th to 9th April 2009 and saw a session to launch a new Information Management special interest group of the Institute. The new group is aimed at those working with historic environment data/information management, computing and informatics. This first event showcased a wide range of current projects and recent developments.
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by Giannis Tsakonas and Christos Papatheodorou
The organization of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2009 in Corfu from 27 September to 2 October 2009 signaled the second 'visit' of ECDL to Greece, following ECDL 1998 in Heraklion, Crete. The theme of the conference was "Digital Societies", addressing the main issues that users and user communities confront within modern digital libraries, such as the creation and enrichment of information artifacts, sharing and distribution of information objects, retrieval and filtering mechanisms, enhancement of user interfaces to increase productivity, and digital preservation.
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by Carol Peters
The results of the tenth campaign of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) were presented and plans for CLEF 2010 were unveiled at the annual CLEF workshop, held this year in Corfu, Greece.
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Announcement
On 8 October, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) highlighted its ACM Europe initiative aimed at recognizing and supporting European members and ACM activities in the region, during a special reception in Paris honouring achievements in European computer science.
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Event Report
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) have organized the 2nd ENISA-FORTH Summer School on Network and Information Security (NIS'09), in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, from 14-18 September 2009. This year’s theme was "Privacy and Trust in a Networked World" with an exciting programme of invited lecturers that covered a range of topics extending beyond pure technological areas to economic, policy, and legal issues.
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by Harry Rudin
These days, the air is typically full of discouraging economic news. In contrast, the atmosphere at the ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 Conference in Geneva, 5 - 9 October, 2009, was up-beat and rippling with energy and excitement. Relevant to this issue of ERCIM News, there was considerable interest in Green ICT.
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Announcement
In the context of the 10-year long presence of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Greece, the W3C Greece Office held an event on September 16th, 2009 in Heraklion, Crete, at ICS-FORTH, where the office is hosted. The W3C Greece Office, which is among the first five offices to join the World Wide Web Consortium, shares the consortium’s goals and vision and contributes towards the improvement and participation of the Greek community in the evolution of the World Wide Web.