ECSS 2015: Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Chairs
With the expansion of Informatics and its growing pervasiveness in other disciplines and society in general, Department Chairs and Deans in Informatics face ever-increasing challenges.
With the expansion of Informatics and its growing pervasiveness in other disciplines and society in general, Department Chairs and Deans in Informatics face ever-increasing challenges.
At the ECSS 2015, on the day before the main Summit, Monday October 12, 2015, two special Pre-Summit Workshops will be organized in parallel:
WORKSHOP FOR DEANS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AND RESEARCH DIRECTORS
Chair: Mehdi Jazayeri, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano
PROGRAM
We are happy to announce that the program of the ECSS 2015 is now online. As in previous years the program is very exciting, with some of the world's most distinguished academics on the stage the Summit will not be short of inspiration and stimulation.
The call has been released for the 11th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2015.
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