Cooperating for Excellence in Research
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading European research institutes are members of ERCIM.
Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, co-hosted by ERCIM, receives the 2016 ACM Turing Award.
ERCIM offers fellowships for PhD holders from all over the world. Application deadline for the next round: 30 April 2017.
Topics cover most disciplines in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics. Fellowships are of 12 months duration spent in one ERCIM member institute. Detailed description of the programme and the application form: http://fellowship.ercim.eu/
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.