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ACM FAccT 2022, June 21 - 24
The fifth ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability and transparency in socio-technical systems. Keynote speakers include André Brock (Georgia Institute of Technology), Pascale Fung (HKUST), and Vanessa Bain (Grassroots Organizer). Papers will address BCIs and human rights, bias in automated speaker recognition, auditing for gerrymandering, and much more. This will be a hybrid event held in-person in Seoul, South Korea, and online.

STOC 2022, June 20 to 24
The 54rd ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing will be part of a five-day TheoryFest in Rome, Italy, with an expanded program of papers and poster sessions, as well as invited talks, tutorials and workshops spotlighting constrained graph layouts, algorithmic contracts to strategic classification, and coding theory. Keynote speakers at this event include Patrick Hayden, Silvio Micali, Andrea Montanari, Giorgio Parisi, and Umesh Vazirani. In addition, Claire Matthieu will give a keynote talk on Friday, June 24.

WebSci 2022, June 26 to 29
The 14th ACM Conference on Web Science is an interdisciplinary conference where a multitude of research disciplines converge with the purpose of creating greater insight into a complex global Web than the sum of their individual parts. Keynote speakers are Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation) and m.c. schraefel (University of Southampton). The event will be held in Barcelona, Spain.

HT '22, June 28 - July 1
The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. Keynote speakers will be announced soon. HT ’22 will be run in a hybrid mode, with the opportunity for speakers and attendees to participate onsite or online. We will be also be co-located with WebSci and UMAP.

ITiCSE 2022, July 8 - 13 (hybrid)
The Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education will cover all aspects of educating the next generation of computer scientists, including sessions on security, remote learning, informatics, game-based teaching, broadening participation in computing, exploring learner resilience and performance, and more. Elizabeth Oldham (Trinity College Dublin), Titus Winters (Google), and Letizia Jaccheri (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) will keynote. The event will be held in-person in Dublin, Ireland, and online.

GECCO 2022, July 9 - 13 (hybrid)
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference includes workshops genetic algorithms, genetic programming, ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence, complex systems (artificial life, robotics, evolvable hardware, and more. Keynote speakers include Meinolf Sellmann (InsideOpt), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), and Erik Goodman (BEACON). This will be a hybrid event held in-person in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and online.

DAC 2022, July 10 - 14
The Design Automation Conference will cover Open Automatic Design for Neural Networks; Hardware Security; Cyber-Physical Systems; Hyperdimensional Computing for Machine Learning; and many more. This event will be held in-person in San Francisco, California, USA. Keynote speakers are Mark Papermaster (AMD), Anirudh Devgan (Cadence Design Systems), Steve Teig (Perceive), and Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL).

PEARC 2022, July 10 - 14
The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference will include workshops on Enhancing HPC Education and Training, Developing Robust and Scalable Next Generation Workflows, Building Portable, and more. Tutorials will cover topics such as auto-scaling, reducing operational costs of research testbeds, and data discoverability. Keynote speakers are Jack Dongarra (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), John Towns (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Donna J. Cox (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). This event will be held in-person in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

SIGIR 2021, July 11 to 15 (hybrid)
The International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval will feature keynotes by Alistair Moffat (The University of Melbourne), Jaime Teevan (Microsoft), Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country), and Ruhi Sarikaya (Amazon). Sessions will cover : eCommerce; Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval; Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence; Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies; and more. This will a hybrid event, with in-person attendance in Madrid, Spain.

EC 2022, July 11 - 15
The Conference on Economics and Computation will be held in-person in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The program consists of numerous tutorials and workshops on topics that include: Redistributive Market Design; Total Search Problems in Economics and Computation; Learning-Augmented Mechanism Design; and more. Keynote speakers are Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University) and Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley). The talks will be primarily in-person, though there will be a livestream available.

PODC 2021, July 25 to 29
The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing will be held in-person in Salerno, Italy. It will feature workshops and tutorials on Advanced Tools, Programming Languages, and Platforms for Implementing and Evaluating Algorithms for Distributed Systems; Distributed Learning; Distributed Algorithms on Realistic Network Models; and Dispersion of Mobile Robots. Keynote speakers are Michael Scott (University of Rochester), Seny Kamara (Brown University), and Merav Parter (Weizmann Institute).
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Upcoming Conferences
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WebSci '22: 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022
Barcelona, Spain
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HotStorage '22: 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems
Virtual Event, USA
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PASC '22: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference
Basel, Switzerland
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IH&MMSec '22: ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security
Santa Barbara, USA
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HPDC '22: The 31st International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
Minneapolis, USA
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MobiSys '22: The 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
Portland, USA
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ICMR '22: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
Newark, USA
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DEBS '22: The 16th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems
Copenhagen, Denmark
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IDC '22: Interaction Design and Children
Braga, Portugal
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e-Energy '22: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems
Virtual Event, USA
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HT '22: 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
Barcelona, Spain
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ICS '22: 2022 International Conference on Supercomputing
Virtual Event, USA
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COMPASS '22: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)
Seattle, USA
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UMAP '22: 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Barcelona, Spain
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ISSAC '22: International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
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ITiCSE 2022: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Dublin, Ireland
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GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Boston, USA
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DAC '22: 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
San Francisco, USA
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PEARC '22: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
Boston, USA
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HPG '22: High-Performance Graphics
Vancouver, Canada
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OSDI '22: 16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Carlsbad, USA
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DATA '22: International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications
Lisbon, Portugal
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SPAA '22: 34th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
Philadelphia, USA
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EC '22: The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
Boulder, USA
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SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Madrid, Spain
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SIMULTECH '22: 12th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications
Lisbon, Portugal
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ICSBT '22: 19th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies
Lisbon, Portugal
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ANNSIM '22: 2022 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference
San Diego, USA
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IWLS '22: International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis
Virtual, USA
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IEA/AIE '22: The Thirty Fifth International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
Kitakyushu, Japan
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CCC '22: Computational Complexity Conference
Philadelphia, USA
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PODC '22: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
Salerno, Italy
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CUI '22: Conversational User Interfaces
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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ICONS '22: International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems
Knoxville, USA
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ISLPED '22: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design
Boston, USA
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AIES'22: AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
Oxford, United Kingdom
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LICS '22: 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
Haifa, Israel
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FSCD '22: International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction
Haifa, Israel
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BCB '22: 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics
Northbrook, USA
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DigiPro '22: The Digital Production Symposium
Vancouver, Canada
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ICER 2022: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research
Lugano and Virtual Event, Switzerland
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KDD '22: The 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Washington, USA
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SIGCOMM '22: ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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SBCCI '22: 35th SBC/SBMicro/IEEE/ACM Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design
Porto Alegre, Brazil
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APSys '22: 13th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems
Singapore, Singapore
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AI for Good Global Summit 2021 (online), continuous digital event
The 2021 edition of the AI for Good Global Summit is a continuous digital event, featuring weekly programming across multiple formats, platforms and time zones, including keynotes, expert webinars, project pitches, Q&As, performances, demos, interviews, networking and more. Upcoming highlights include presentations on AI and climate science, health, and data, and a keynote on "The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act: How will it impact your life and business?"

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.
Permutation Coding for Vertex-Blend Attribute Compression
By Christoph Peters, Bastian Kuth, Quirin Meyer
I3D Best Paper Award at I3D '22: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
Bringing Linearly Transformed Cosines to Anisotropic GGX
By Aakash KT, Eric Heitz, Jonathan Dupuy, P. J. Narayanan
I3D Best Paper Award at I3D '22: Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
Constraint-logic object-oriented programming for test case generation
By Hendrik Winkelmann, Laura Troost, Herbert Kuchen
ACM SAC 2022 Best Paper Award for theme: Software Design and Development at SAC '22: The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
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