[TYPES/announce] The Royal Society Discussion Meeting "From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020"

[Vladimiro Sassone]

We are delighted to announce:

The Royal Society Discussion Meeting
"From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020"

17-18th March 2008
The Royal Society, London

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/event.asp?id=6065&month=3,2008

Organisers: Marta Kwiatkowska, Tom Rodden and Vladimiro Sassone

The convergence of wireless networks with new sensing technologies and
devices has started to embed computers into our everyday life. This
meeting will consider this shift to 'Ubiquitous Computing' as an
interdisciplinary grand challenge affecting all aspects of computer
science that has massive implications for how we might reason about,
build and experience computer systems with considerable issues for  
society.

PROGRAMME

Computing and software
Jeanette Wing, CMU/NSF, Computational thinking
Rocco de Nicola, University of Florence, Global computing
Tom Henzinger, EPFL, Challenges in embedded systems design
Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Self-* properties of complex  
systems

Architecture and technology
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, Invisible computing
Andy Hopper FRS, University of Cambridge, Sentient computing
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton, Power-efficient architectures
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich, Network architectures for ubiquitous  
computing

Can we trust computers?
Mogens Nielsen, Aarhus University, Trust specification and analysis
Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Trust, security and privacy in
ubiquitous computing
Ronald Rivest, MIT, Cryptography and security, with a focus on E-voting

The human viewpoint
Gary Marsden, Cape Town, Mobile interaction design for developing  
nations
Adam Greenfield, Consultant, Everyware: Some Social and Ethical
Implications of Ubiquitous Computing
Jonathan Zittrain and John Palfrey, Harvard/OMII, Legal and ethical  
issues
Sir Ara Darzi, Imperial College, Medical applications of pervasive
computing

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of the meeting will be published in the high impact
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, see

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1084

which ranks 4th in the ISI Multidisciplinary Sciences category.

REGISTRATION

See the webpage:

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/event.asp?id=6065&month=3,2008


Best wishes,
Vladimiro Sassone, University of Southampton

on behalf of:

Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22
Robin Milner FRS, University of Cambridge, http://www.fairdene.com/ 
picalculus/robinmilner.html
Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~tar
Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ 
oucl/people/marta.kwiatkowska.html
Morris Sloman, Imperial College, http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mss

UKCRC Grand Challenge in Ubiquitous Computing: Science, Experience  
and Design
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/Projects/UbiNet/GC/index.html