Fondazione GraphiTech

The latest issue of "link", the newsletter of Informatica Trentina, describe the contribution provided by Fondazione Graphitech to the 2011 edition of the Economics Fair (Festival Dell'Economia) in Trento.

More information (in Italian) from the website at: http://www.infotn.it/cms-01.00/articolo.asp?IDcms=8939&s=194&l=it&utm_campaign=Newsletter-link&utm_source=062011&link=06201 http://www.infotn.it/cms-01.00/articolo.asp?IDcms=8939&s=194&l=it&utm_campaign=Newsletter-link&utm_source=062011&link=06201

The BRISEIDE Workshop was held at INSPIRE Conference 2011, 27th June 2011 Edinburgh, Scotland.

Now the workshop is available as a series of webinar from the project YouTube Channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/GraphiTechTN#grid/user/2223EA46ABAA0C55

Graphitech will present the BRISEIDE project at the second World Landslide Forum, to be held in Rome at FAO headquarters from 3-9 October 2011.

• ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
• ICL - International Consortium on Landslides
• UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• WMO - World Meteorological Organization
• UNISDR - United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction 
• UNU - United Nations University
• ICSU - International Council for Science
• WFEO - World Federation of Engineering Organizations

More information are available from: http://www.wlf2.org

WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Insti tute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers.

More information are available from: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws