Visions of computer science
Imperial College London, September 22-24 2008

The first BCS international academic conference is now open for bookings. 'Visions of computer science' will feature seven ACM Turing Award winners as keynote speakers, which will be held in September at Imperial College London.

With such notables as Vint Cerf, Fran Allen, Tony Hoare, Dick Karp, Robin Milner, Michael Rabin, Joseph Sifakis, plus David Delpy, CEO of EPSRC, all playing a major part in the conference this new initiative promises to be an outstanding event.

Other invited speakers:

• Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College
• Steve Furber, The University of Manchester
• Laurie Hendren, McGill University Canada
• Nicholas Jennings, University of Southampton
• Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London
• Brigitte Plateau, IMAG France
• Moshe Vardi, RICE University Texas

Quality papers have been submitted on key areas of research covering the broad field of computer science on topics including:

• Computer Architectures and Digital Systems
• Theoretical Computer Science: Algorithms and Complexity, Logic and Semantics
• Non-standard Models of Computation
• Programming Methods and Languages
• Software Engineering, and System Design Tools
• Quantitative Evaluation of Algorithms and Systems
• Artificial Intelligence, Agents and Machine Learning
• Networks, Distributed and Pervasive Systems
• Grid Computing and E-Science
• Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Web Based Computation
• Human Computer Interaction
• Robotics and Computer Vision
• Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology and Synthetic Chemistry
• Medical Applications
• UKCRC Grand Challenges

The conference organising committee and programme committee are composed of distinguished academics and researchers. The conference is chaired by Professor Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London). The programme committee is chaired by Professor Samson Abramsky (Oxford University) and Professor Vladimiro Sassone (University of Southampton).

Mike Rodd, BCS Learned Society director, explains: 'We are delighted to have the opportunity to play host to seven ACM Turing Award winners and as a result I am quite certain that the conference will prove to be a fascinating in-depth discussion of key issues in the realm of computer science today. The topics have been set deliberately broad to reflect the rich texture and intellectual vigor of computer science today.'

Following the conference, the proceedings, which will contain all accepted papers, will be published by BCS and be available on CD. In addition, a selection of the presented papers will appear in the Computer Journal, the archival research publication of the BCS.

The event is at Imperial College London, September 22-24 2008. Booking can be made here www.bcs.org/visions

There are special rates for students, BCS members and IET members.

Speaker biographies


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