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Joint ERCIM Actions<br />
ERCIM 25th Anniversary<br />
Celebration<br />
On the occasion of ERCIM’s 25th anniversary, a special session<br />
and panel discussion took place on 23 October in the<br />
auditorium of the CNR Campus. Speakers and representatives<br />
from research, industry, the European Commission, and<br />
the ERCIM community presented their views on research<br />
and future developments in information and communication<br />
science and technology (ICST).<br />
Domenico Laforenza, President of ERCIM<br />
Domenico Laforenza, President of ERCIM welcomed more<br />
than 100 ERCIM delegates, ERCIM postdoc fellows and<br />
guests to the special anniversary session and symposium. He<br />
gave a brief overview on ERCIM’s history, achievements<br />
and outlook.<br />
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Professor at the<br />
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer<br />
Sciences, University of California at Berkeley gave insight<br />
in cyber-physical systems with his talk “Let’s get physical:<br />
marrying computing with the physical world”.<br />
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli<br />
Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab at the<br />
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA<br />
described some of the Lab’s projects such as exploring the<br />
spatio-temporal patterns of mobile phone activity in cities,<br />
and “Ambient Mobility”, a smart mobility research project to<br />
analyze, design, develop and test senseable and sustainable<br />
mobility systems in interaction with other future urban systems.<br />
“Ambient Mobility” is a joint initiative between the<br />
Senseable City Lab at MIT and the Mobility Innovation Lab<br />
at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO.<br />
Alain Bensoussan, former President of Inria and one of the<br />
co-founders of ERCIM, now Professor of Risk and Decision<br />
Analysis at the School of Management at the University of<br />
Texas at Dallas, discussed the question: “Big data and big<br />
expectations: Is a successful matching possible?”<br />
Carlo Ratti<br />
The following two speakers introduced the latest ERCIM<br />
White Papers. Rigo Wenning, W3C presented the White<br />
Paper “Security and Privacy Research Trends and<br />
Challenges”. The White Paper “Big Data Analytics: Towards<br />
The audience<br />
Alain Bensoussan<br />
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ERCIM NEWS 100 January 2015
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