Videos and pictures of the ACM Europe Conference

The inaugural ACM Europe Conference was a truly international event, bringing together computer scientists and practitioners from around the world. 2012 ACM Turing Award laureate Silvio Micali and ACM Fellow, Athena Lecturer and ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award recipient Katherine Yelick gave talks. Two tracks addressed High Performance Computing and Cybersecurity issues. Watch highlights on […]

Follow the Conference Online!

#ACMEuroCon17 will be streamed live! Watch a Turing Lecture by Silvio Micali & the Cybersecurity panel here on 9/7: http://ow.ly/d5oE30eVfcu Watch the HPC Keynote by Katherine Yelick & the HPC panel here on 9/8: https://goo.gl/H36rsK    

Cybersecurity Panel: Some key challenges

  One of the ACM Europe Conference main topic is covering Cybersecurity. The panel builds on the work started with EUACM’s white paper Advancing Cybersecurity Research and Education in Europe. The panellists are drawn from European Agencies, the USACM Public Policy Council and EUACM. The panellists will explain their own positions with respect to current […]

HPC Keynote: “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale”

On September 8th, Prof Katherine Yelick is delivering the HPC keynote lecture at the ACM Europe Conference. The title of her Lecture is “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale”. Abstract: In the next few years, exascale computing systems will become available to the scientific community.  They will require new levels of parallelization, new models of memory and storage, […]

Logistics

Venue The ACM Europe conference and the co-located events will take place at the vicinity of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, click for a map. On Thursday, September, 7th, the Turing Talk, Cybersecurity Panel and the Reception and ACM Fellows Celebration will be held in Aula Magna, Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona (Avinguda Diagonal, 643 08028 […]

Registration

Please register for the ACM Europe Conference on the following link. Registration ​for ​the ​ACM ​Europe ​Conference ​2017 ​is ​already opened to non ACM members. ​ ​

Speakers

  The ACM Europe Conference will be a truly international event, bringing together computer scientists and practitioners from around the world. The two main themes of the conference are Cybersecurity and High Performance Computing.     Prof Silvio Micali He received his undergraduate education in Rome, graduating with a degree in mathematics from Sapienza University […]

Programme

View the programme in full size here.   ACM Europe Conference September, 7th  Venue: AULA MAGNA,  Faculty of  Biology – Universitat de Barcelona.   16:00 – 16:30 – Registration 16:30 – 17:00 – ACM Europe Official Opening 17:00 – 18:00 – Turing Lecture: “ALGORAND: A new distributed ledger” 18:00 – 19:30 – Cybersecurity Panel 19:30 – 21:00 – […]

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The ACM Europe Council will hold an international event from the 7th to the 8th of September 2017 in Barcelona. The event is hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The ACM Europe Conference will be a truly international event, bringing together computer scientists and practitioners from around the world. Registration is free, but early registration is […]

HPC Track

One of the ACM Europe Conference main topic is covering HPC. The track will compose of the keynote talk by Prof Kathy Yelick on “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale” and it is followed by a panel, composed by top world experts in HPC. The panel will review progress and current plans for the worldwide roadmap […]