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CODASPY 2021, April 26 to 28 (online)
The ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control's Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy will feature co-located workshops on Security and Privacy Analytics; Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems; and Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization Security. Panels will address "Is there a Security Mindset and Can It Be Taught?" and "AI for Security and Security for AI." Danfeng (Daphne) Yao (Virginia Tech) and David Evans (University of Virginia) will deliver keynotes.

EuroSys 2021, April 26-28 (online)
The EuroSys conference is a forum for discussing issues of systems software research and development, including implications related to hardware and applications. Co-located workshops will address efficient and performant storage systems; security; consistency for distributed data; machine learning; cloud systems; large-scale distributed systems and middleware; and more. Leading Ask-Me-Anything sessions will be ACM Fellow Anne-Marie Kermarrec (EPFL), ACM Distinguished Speaker Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Vrije Universiteit), and others.

CPS-IoT Week 2021, May 18 to 21 (online)
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. The program covers many complementary aspects of CPS, and reunites leading researchers in this dynamic field. Matt Welsh (OctoML), Bruno Sinopoli (Washington University in St. Louis) and Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) will deliver keynotes.

AIES 2021, May 19 to 21 (online)
The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society features a multidisciplinary approach to ethical concerns and challenges in AI regarding issues such as privacy, safety and security, surveillance, inequality, data handling and bias, personal agency, power relations, regulation, workforce displacement, and more. Scheduled keynote speakers are Ifeoma Ajunwa Associate Professor, UNC Law and Founding Director, AI Decision-Making Research Program; and Timnit Gebru, Co-Founder, Black in AI.

SIGWEB to Sponsor The Web Conference
ACM’s Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web (SIGWEB) has taken over sponsorship of The Web Conference, starting with the 2022 edition in Lyon, France, from the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). The annual international academic conference (formerly known as International World Wide Web Conference) addresses the future direction of the World Wide Web. Read the ACM news release.

PEARC 2021, July 18 to 22 (online): Call for Participation
The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference invites technical content proposals, especially in the areas of three technical tracks: Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education; Applications and Software; and Systems and System Software. Panels and BoFs due May 9. For more deadlines and information, please visit the PEARC submissions page.

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Upcoming Conferences
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SIGUCCS '21: ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference
Virtual Event, USA
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26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '21)
Virtual, USA
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W4A '21: 18th Web for All Conference
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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ICPE '21: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
Virtual Event, France
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WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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FEMIB '21: 3rd International Conference on Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business
Setúbal, Portugal
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Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '21)
Online, United Kingdom
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CODASPY '21: Eleventh ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
Virtual Event, USA
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ENASE '21: 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
Vienna, Austria
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CLOSER '21: 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
Vienna, Austria
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AAMAS '21: 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Virtual Event, United Kingdom
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FMX '21: Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media
Ludwigsburg, Germany
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CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Yokohama, Japan
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CCGrid '20: 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Melbourne, Australia
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CF '21: Computing Frontiers Conference
Virtual Conference, Italy
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CCGrid '21: 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing
Melbourne , Australia
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IPDPS `21: International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Portland, USA
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IoTDI '21: International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation
Charlottesvle, USA
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ICPC '21: 29th International Conference on Program Comprehension
Madrid, Spain
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IPSN '21: The 20th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2021)
Nashville, USA
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HSCC '21: 24th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
Nashville, USA
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ICCPS '21: ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2021)
Nashville, USA
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CPS-IoT Week '21: Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week 2021
Nashville, USA
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ICSE '21: 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Madrid, Spain
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ETRA '21: 2021 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
Virtual Event, Germany
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ECBS '21: Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems
Novi Sad, Serbia
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SIGSIM-PADS '21: SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation
Virtual Event, USA
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HotOS '21: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Ann Arbor, USA
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Mindtrek '21: 24th International Academic Mindtrek conference
Tampere, Finland
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SBSI '21: XVII Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems
Uberlândia, Brazil
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ASIA CCS '21: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Virtual Event, Hong Kong
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AEiC '21: 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Santander, Spain
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EICS '21: ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems
Virtual Event, Netherlands
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SYSTOR '21: The 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
Haifa, Israel
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ICS '21: 2021 International Conference on Supercomputing
Virtual Event, USA
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SIGMETRICS '21: ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Virtual Event, China
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ISCA '21: The 48th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Valencia, Spain
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SACMAT '21: The 26th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)
Virtual Event, Spain
IUI 2021, April 13 to 17 (online)
The 26th Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces is where the human-computer interaction community meets the AI community, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, and the arts. Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland) will present a tutorial on Human-Centered AI, an approach combining research on AI algorithms with user experience design methods.

CHI 2021, May 8 to 13 (online)
The ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction will include workshops on automation in the workplace; an HCI system for space exploration; disability design in low-resource settings; HCI design for aging populations; dark patterns; migration and mobility in HCI; human aspects of online misinformation; and much more. Chieko Asakawa (Carnegie Mellon University) and Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University) will keynote on accessibility and equity issues.

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Virtual Conferences Forum
ACM hosts a discussion forum for conference organizers to share experiences and discuss issues among themselves: https://virtualconf.acm.org.

Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices
In March 2020 ACM formed a Presidential Task Force (PTF) to help conference organizers transition their events to online. The PTF is working on a guide to offer practical advice and shed light on the largely unfamiliar territory of online conferencing.
The report, available here, includes pointers to a live document with additional resources. We welcome comments, suggestions and experience reports from the community.

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