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CHI 2019, May 4 to 9, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

This year's ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction will include workshops on crowdsourcing creativity; HCI and aging; human-centered machine learning; social robots; and more. Keynoting will be Aleks Krotoski, host of The Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast, and of the BBC’s Digital Human series; and Ivan Poupyrev, Director of Engineering in Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects division.

WiSec 2019, May 15 to 17, Miami, Florida

The ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks is the leading ACM and SIGSAC conference dedicated to all aspects of security and privacy in Internet of Things, wireless and mobile networks, mobile software platforms, usable security and privacy, biometrics, and cyber-physical systems. Keynotes include René Mayrhofer (Google), Patrick McDaniel (Pennsylvania State University), and Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University).

AI for Good Global Summit 2019, May 28 to 31, Geneva, Switzerland

The goals of the AI for Good Global Summit are to connect AI innovators with problem owners, to identify practical applications of AI to accelerate progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and to ensure trusted, safe and inclusive development of AI technologies and equitable access to their benefits. The summit is the leading United Nations platform for dialogue on AI. ACM CEO Vicki Hanson is among the international roster of speackers.

ICSE 2019, May 25 to 31, Montreal, Canada

The 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering will feature the latest in research, education, open source projects, testing, analysis, and more. Keynoters are Paul Clements, VP of Customer Success at BigLever Software; Margaret-Anne Storey, Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Matrix Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Victoria; and Joelle Pineau, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University.

DAC 2019, June 2 to 6, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Design Automation Conference offers tracks in Design, EDA, Embedded Systems and Software and Autonomous Systems, IP, Machine Learning/AI, and Security. Keynoters include musician, producer and innovator Thomas Dolby, SPIKE founder Bas Verkaik, and MIT's James DiCarlo. SKY talks will be delivered by Hava T. Siegelmann of DARPA and Gurtej S. Sandhu of Micron Technology.

FCRC 2019, June 22 to 28, Phoenix, Arizona

ACM's Federated Computing Research Conference assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences and workshops into a week-long co-located meeting. These events cover topics including learning theory; energy; quality of service, programming language design and implementation; high performance parallel and distributed computing; computing theory; measurement and modeling of computer systems; and more. Each morning will feature a joint plenary talk.

L@S 2019, June 24 to 25, Chicago, Illinois (CFP)

Learning @ Scale is co-located with and immediately precedes the 2019 International Conference on AI in Education. L@S investigates large-scale, technology-mediated learning environments, such as massive open online courses, intelligent tutoring systems, open learning courseware, learning games, and communities of citizen scientists, collaborative programmers, tutorial systems, shared critiques, and more. Work-in-progress posters and demonstrations are due April 1.

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Upcoming Conferences

CPS-IoT Week 2019, April 15 to 18, Montreal, Canada

CPS-IoT Week is the premier event on cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things research. It brings together five top conferences, multiple workshops, tutorials, competitions and various exhibitions from both industry and academia. Victor Bahl (Microsoft), founder of SIGMOBILE; Moshe Vardi (Rice University), former Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the ACM; and Tulika Mitra (National University of Singapore) will deliver keynotes.

GROUP 2020, January 6 to 8, Sanibel Island, Florida (CFP)

The ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work is a premier venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Socio-Technical Studies. GROUP 2020 invites submissions to the new Design Fiction track, which is dedicated to sharing academic work that extends beyond the traditional research paper. Submissions are due June 7, 2019.

WebSci 2019, June 30 to July 3, Boston, Massachusetts

The ACM Conference on Web Science brings together researchers from multiple disciplines , including computer science, sociology, economics, information science, anthropology, and psychology. Keynote speakers are Fabien Gandon (Inria) and Sandra González-Bailón (University of Pennsylvania). Workshops include Brave Conversations, a non-academic session to explore profound issues that are arising as human life becomes progressively entwined with the internet and the Web.

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CIRM Interface Programme Fall 2019 Sessions

INTERFACE is an original programme of acquisition and discussion of tools and concepts in mathematical, computer and digital sciences, that are pertinent to potential users in industry: modelling, simulation, and optimization. Sessions will cover blockchain, stochastic optimization and machine learning and last two to four days, in full on-site immersion at the Centre International de Recontres Mathématiques (CIRM-Luminy) in Marseille, France.

Conferences Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.

ABR streaming of VBR-encoded videos: characterization, challenges, and solutions
By Yanyuan Qin, Shuai Hao, K. R. Pattipati, Feng Qian, Subhabrata Sen, Bing Wang, Chaoqun Yue
CoNEXT 2018

Deformation simulation of non-orthotropic materials
By Wei Cao, Xiaohua Ren, Luan Lyu, Enhua Wu
VRCAI '18

Flipper 2.0: A Pragmatic Dialogue Engine for Embodied Conversational Agents
By Jelte van Waterschoot, Merijn Bruijnes, Jan Flokstra, Dennis Reidsma, Daniel Davison, Mariët Theune, Dirk Heylen
IVA'18

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