In Brief

Obituary for Horst Santo

by Sepideh Chakaveh, head of ERCIM Media Technology & Edutainment Working Group

Horst Santo one the pioneers of Interactive Digital Broadcasting has sadly died in July 2012 at the age of 70.

PLERCIM's Unit Awarded the Status of Leading National Research Centre in Poland

The Warsaw Centre of Mathematics and Computer Science comprises the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw (a member institution of PLERCIM) together with the Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences. This Centre has won the status of Leading National Research Centre in Mathematical Sciences (Krajowy Naukowy Ośrodek Wiodący, KNOW).

PROMISE Retreat 2012 report on Prospects and Opportunities for Information Access Evaluation

The PROMISE network of excellence organized a two-day brainstorming workshop to discuss and envisage future directions and perspectives for the evaluation of information access and retrieval systems in multiple languages and multiple media.

ERC President visits Turing Exhibition

On 20 September Prof. Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council (ERC), visited the Turing exhibition at CWI, which was designed for the Turing Year 2012.