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ERCIM News N°112
Special: Quantum Computing
Next issue: April 2018 - Smart Farming (call for contributions)
Special: Quantum Computing
Next issue: April 2018 - Smart Farming (call for contributions)
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.
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ERCIM-Blockchain 2018: Blockchain Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Science Research
CWI, Amsterdam, 8-9 May 2018
Submission deadline extended to March 31, 2018
Call for Papers
With Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology has gained widespread attention by the general public. Major companies like Facebook have announced that they are considering significant projects based on this technology.
The purpose of this workshop is to look at what the general excitement about blockchain technologies means for computer science research and to identify the major research challenges in this area. The aim is to establish Blockchain Engineering as a new field of computer science research.
Workshop on Data Privacy Controls and Vocabularies
Join us for our workshop on "Data Privacy Controls and Vocabularies" on 7–8 March 2018 Vienna, Austria. The workshop is held under the auspices of SPECIAL, one of the H2020 projects at ERCIM.
Foreword from the President
ERCIM is a great organisation with a lot of potential. I am proud that I am the third CWI director since ERCIM’s foundation in 1989 who has become a President of ERCIM, after Cor Baayen and Gerard van Oortmerssen. I will outline my ideas on ERCIM’s strategy below.
10th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics
The 10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017) took place at the Senate House and Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 16-18 December 2017. Tutorials were given on Friday 15th of December 2017 and the COST IC1408 CRoNoS Winter Course on Copula-based modelling with R took place the 13-14 December 2017. The conference took place jointly with the 11th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2017).
New ERCIM Working Group on Blockchain Technology
Lead by ERCIM member Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the aim of the group is to build a community of European researchers exploring the opportunities for computer science research in the area of blockchain technology. The group was established in the follow-up of the ERCIM workshop on Blockchain Technology in May 2017 in Paris and the special theme of ERCIM News 110 "Blockchain Engineering" in July 2017.
