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The ERCIM fall meetings will be held in the beautiful city of Budapest on 15-16 October 2024, hosted by HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control (HUN-REN SZTAKI). Please save the date for this important event, and we recommend that you book your accommodation as soon as possible. Registration is mandatory for participation in the meetings. We will inform the members when the registration form is available.

Note that in the same week, the ERCIM Ethics Working Group will hold the Beyond Compliance 2024 Workshop "Research Ethics in the Digital Age" on 13-14 October 2024, and the ERCIM-JST Joint Workshop (participation by invitation) will be held after the ERCIM fall meetings on 17-18 October. 

For details, see https://www.ercim.eu/events/ercim-days/ercim-fall-meetings-2024

Budapest, 14-15 October 2024

For the third edition of the Forum, co-organized by ERCIM, SZTAKI, and the CCNE-numérique, the program will consist of invited presentations, invited contributions to round tables, a tutorial session, and selected contributions based on the answers to this call. The program will be structured into six topical sessions focusing on ethical issues in digital research about Cultural Influences, Democracy, Regulation Making, Cooperative Agents, Digital Health, and Emerging Topics; and two sessions for a Tutorial and Selected Contributions. We invite the community to propose contributions in the form of short presentations. These can include case study reports, novel developments from research projects, policy recommendations, or proposals and hypotheses put forward for discussion.

The ERCIM 2024 spring meetings will be held on 21-22 May 2024 in Málaga, Spain & online. The meetings are hosted by our member ITIS Software/Univerisity of Malaga. Online participation will be possible. Registration is mandatory.

For the programme and registration form, see https://www.ercim.eu/events/ercim-days/ercim-spring-meetings-2024

The EU-funded project TERMINET has worked on next-generation IoT across six realistic use cases, featuring software-defined networking, edge computing, virtualization, federated learning, augmented, and virtual reality interfaces. For TERMINET, ERCIM focused on standardization, as well as conducting research on moving beyond the limitations of current approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning.

For more information, see: 
https://terminet-h2020.eu/towards-next-generation-iot/
https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en136/r-i/terminet-pioneering-the-future-of-smart-interconnected-iot

We are pleased to share insights from the recent 4th Workshop jointly organized by ERCIM and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), held in Kyoto, Japan, in October 2023. This workshop, themed “Exploring New Research Challenges and Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Human-Computer Interaction, and the Internet of Things,” served as a dynamic platform for European and Japanese researchers to present their latest findings and discuss future collaborations.

Hosted by JST as part of the Advanced Integrated Intelligence Platform project, the event successfully fostered discussions on cutting-edge research and development in critical technological domains. Participants had the unique opportunity to explore potential partnerships within the framework of European Commission programs and corresponding initiatives by JST, setting the stage for innovative international collaborations in the fields of AI, Big Data, HCI, and IoT.

The full report is available here: https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en136/jea/report-on-the-4th-joint-jst-ercim-workshop

The responsible and ethical conduct of research in science and engineering is critical for excellence, socially relevant impact and public trust. Digital and connected technologies have increasingly become intertwined with our individual and collective daily lives, mediating our communications, profiling our behaviours, changing how we think, live and act, and presenting new tensions that interrogate the applications of standard guiding ethical principles. Research in digital sciences - including computer science, automatic control, robotics and applied mathematics - raises many new ethical challenges resulting from interactions between humans and deep tech. Researchers in digital sciences face tough ethical questions in their daily activity for which there aren't yet consensual answers.

The ERCIM Selection Committee for the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award unanimously selected Rianne de Heide, nominated by CWI, as the winner for 2023. An honorary mention is given to Denis Merigoux from Inria.

Dr. Rianne de Heide's research activity stands out for its quality and breadth. Her work covers a wide variety of topics within the general field of mathematical statistics, with focus on learning from data. In her work, Bayesian learning is used as a tool, sometimes critically evaluated, sometimes extended, always with a strong mathematical-theoretical component. Her work reaches breadth by (a) the aspects of learning from data/statistics that are studied: optional stopping, misspecification (statistics with incorrect but useful models), philosophical problems in induction, bandits, and (b) the scope across various other disciplines: philosophy and logic, psychology, and machine learning and AI.

The ERCIM EEIG board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Dominique Hazael-Massieux as the new manager of ERCIM EEIG, effective from June 2023. Dominique will be taking over from Philipp Hoschka, who has served as the manager since December 2016.