12 March was the 28th birthday of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web writes about how the web has evolved, why he is worried about recent trends, and what must be done to in order for the web to fulfill its true potential as a tool which serves humanity. Read the full message at http://webfoundation.org/2017/03/web-turns-28-letter/
The ERCIM EEIG board of Directors has appointed Philipp Hoschka as manager of the ERCIM EEIG. Philipp Hoschka took office on 1st of December. He succeeds Jérôme Chailloux who served as manager since May 2005.
Over 40 researchers from academia and industry attended a workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding organized by the MUSCLE working group in Reggio Calabria, Italy, 27-28 October 2016.
Michał Pilipczuk from the University of Warsaw is a prominent young researcher in the area of algorithms. He contributed to the breakthrough results which solved fundamental problems in the field of parameterized complexity, some of which have been unsolved since more than 20 years.
Craig Nicholson from Research Professional talked to Emma Liere, manager of the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme about the benefits of doing a postdoctoral fellowship at ERCIM member institute.
Read the full article "Opportunity profile: Being part of the international equation" in pdf
The ERCIM Programme for PhD Education (EPPE) is a new mobility programme for cooperation in PhD education among ERCIM members. The goal is to add a European international dimension to PhD education by crossing national, scientific and institutional borders.
See http://www.ercim.eu/activity/programme-for-phd-education
The ERCIM Expert Group "Boost Open-access Mastering" (BOM@ERCIM) has just published a report entitled "BOM@ERCIM — Towards an open access policy for ERCIM". This document provides a basis for a policy for a better communication between research performing organisations about dissemination of research results and Open Access. At the ERCIM level, the report gives a strong set of recommendations that could be implemented step by step by all ERCIM members.
http://www.ercim.eu/images/stories/pub/BOMatERCIM.pdf
http://persistent-identifier.org/?identifier=urn:nbn:nl:ui:18-23589
29 September 2015, Sophia Antipolis: The two-year EU-funded HTML5Apps project proudly looks back to its achievements. The project, ending in September 2015 successfully accelerated the development of standard Web technologies required to make HTML5 apps competitive with native apps, specifically in the areas of Web payments and rich mobile Web APIs.