by Anthony Cleve and Tom Mens
The sixth annual workshop of the ERCIM Working Group of Software Evolution took place in Antwerp, Belgium, 20-21 September 2010, under the auspices of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution. The event gathered theorists and practitioners to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in research and practice on automated software evolution.
Read more: Report on IWPSE-EVOL 2010 – International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
by Nicholas Ferguson, Ashok Kar and Florence Pesce
The ERCIM-led Euro-India SPIRIT project launches the first Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Experts meeting to discuss ICT policy alignment between Europe and India.
Andrea Esuli from ISTI-CNR has been chosen by ERCIM as the winner of the 2010 Cor Baayen Award for a promising young researcher in computer scienceand applied mathematics.
Read more: Andrea Esuli Winner of the 2010 ERCIM Cor Baayen Award
ERCIM takes part in ICT 2010, the bi-annual event organised this year by the European Commission on 27-29 September in Bruxelles. With a joint information stand, ERCIM and ETSI will demonstrate that standardisation should be considered early in the R&D cycle in order to optimise the markets for European industry.
Together with ACM Europe, ERCIM has arranged the networking session " ICT Professional Societies: Which Opportunities for Europe?" (session T004 on Tuesday 28 September 2010 from 14:00-15:30).
INRIA and ERCIM have lost one of its pioneers: Georges Nissen, an iconic figure at INRIA who spent his entire career working for the Institute, passed away on Tuesday 9 March 2010.