Conference Program
The slides of talks given during the conference are available for download on the program below
Venue: Chalmers Conference Center - Chalmersplatsen 1 - 41258 Göteborg
- 08.10.18 - Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads, Chalmers Conference Center (Scania hall)
- 08.10.18 - Welcome Reception at "The House of William Chalmers"
- 09-10.10.18 - ECSS Main Conference, Chalmers Conference Center (Conference hall RunAn)
- 09.10.18 - Conference Dinner, Chalmers Conference Center (Restaurant “Kårrestaurangen”)
- 10.10.18 - ECSS Working Sessions (by invitation only)
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-17:00 Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads
18:30-20:30 ECSS 2018 Welcome Reception at The House of William Chalmers (Södra Hamngatan 11, 411 14 Göteborg)
Tuesday, 09 October 2018
8:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:10 Conference Opening
- Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President)
- Stefan Bengtsson (President of Chalmers University of Technology)
09.10-10.40 Session 1 "Intelligence"
Session Chair: Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President)
- John Shawe-Taylor - University College London
"Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence" [Slides] - Hannu Toivonen - University of Helsinki
"Computational Creativity" [Slides]
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 "Society"
Session Chair: Lynda Hardman (CWI / Utrecht University)
- May Britt Thorseth - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
"Ethics in the Age of Informatics, Big Data and AI" [Slides] - Klaus Tochtermann - ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
"Towards the European Open Science Cloud - The Role of Computer Science" [Slides]
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Informatics Europe - ERCIM 2018 Awards Ceremony (Public Session) [Slides]
- 13:30-13:50 Winner Announcement (Michael Kölling, King's College London) followed by short talk by Winner Representatives [Slides]
- 13:50-14:10 Winner Announcement (Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH and University of Crete) followed by short talk by Winner Representatives [Slides]
- 14:10-14:30 Winner Announcement (Jos Baeten, President ERCIM) followed by short talk by Winner [Slides]
14:30-16:00 Session 3 "Education"
Session Chair: Michael Caspersen (It-vest - networking universities)
- 14:30-15:05 Georgi Dimitrov - European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture
"EU Perspectives on Digital Education"
- 15:05-16:00 Panel on Informatics Education
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:15 Special Session Informatics Europe Activities
Session Chair: Cristina Pereira (Informatics Europe Executive Director)
- 16:30-16:45 When Computers Decide: Recommendations on Machine-Learned Automated Decision Making - James Larus (EPFL) [Slides]
- 16:45-16:55 Informatics Research Evaluation Report - Hélène Kirchner (INRIA) [Slides]
- 16:55-17:05 Informatics Education in Europe: Institutions, Degrees, Students, Positions, Salaries. Key Data Report 2012-2017 - Svetlana Tikhonenko (Informatics Europe) [Slides]
- 17:05-17:15 Industry Funding for Academic Research in Informatics in Europe - Pilot Study - Svetlana Tikhonenko (Informatics Europe) [Slides]
17:15-18:45 Informatics Europe Annual General Assembly
Session Chairs: Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President), Cristina Pereira (Informatics Europe Executive Director)
19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner (Chalmers Conference Center, Restaurant “Kårrestaurangen”)
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Session 4 "Interfaces"
Session Chair: Letizia Jaccheri (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
- Wendy Mackay - INRIA
"Creating Human-Computer Partnerships" [Slides] - Amy Loutfi - Örebro University
"Robots and Autonomous Systems for All"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 5 "Directions"
Session Chair: Pekka Orponen (Aalto University)
- Luca Cardelli - Microsoft Research and Oxford University
"Molecular Programming" [Slides] - Per Delsing - Chalmers University of Technology
"Quantum Computers, How do They Work and What Can They do?" [Slides]
12:30-14:00 Lunch Seminar and Closing Session
Session Chair: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Chalmers University of Technology / University of Gothenburg)
- 12:30-13:15 Lunch
- 13:15-14:00 Mark Coeckelbergh - University of Vienna
"Ethics of Robotics and AI: Moral Responsibility and Societal Challenges" [Slides] - 14:00 Closing the Conference
14:15-17:30 Working Sessions (in parallel, by invitation only)
- Meeting of National Informatics Associations
Session Chair: Hélène Kirchner (INRIA)
- Women in Informatics Research and Education
Session Chair: Lynda Hardman (CWI / Utrecht University)
- The Wide Role of Informatics at Universities
Session Chair: Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London)