News From ACM-W India

The ACM/ACM-W India Annual event for the year 2015 will be held at Birla Institute of Technology Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, from 5–7 Feb 2015. This annual flagship event is organized to discuss trends in science and technology, and to celebrate ACM’s spirit and India’s accomplishments in computing. This event is attended by ACM Turing Award winners, ACM Office Bearers, researchers and IT professionals. The past events have witnessed keynote speeches by Tony Hoare (Turing Award 1980), Raj Reddy (Turing Award 1994), Barbara Lisskov (Turing Award 2008), Charles Thacker (Turing Award 2009), Eric Brewer (Infosys ACM Award  2009), Franz Kaashoek (Infosys ACM Award 2010) Ravi Kannan (Knuth Prize 2011), Vinton G Cerf (Turing Award 2004), Joseph Sifakis (Turing Award 2007) and Shafi Goldwasser (Turing Award 2012).

The annual event provides an opportunity for young students and professionals to listen to, interact with, and be motivated by leading men/women professionals across the world. This year the following eminent researchers have been invited for the main event on 6th Feb 2015.

  • Prof. John E. Hopcroft
  • Dr. Susan Rodger
  • Prof. Kathy Yelick

The Ninth edition of Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar (IRISS) will be co-located with Annual Event and will be held on Feb 5th. This is a forum for research scholars from Indian academic institutes to present their work and there will be poster presentation to discuss their ongoing work.
The SIGCSE inauguration would be held on Feb 7th.

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