Computer scientists log on to Glasgow

Over 700 international computer experts will come to Glasgow this week for one of the largest conferences on computer science in the world.

Speakers from LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft Research, as well as academic researchers from across the world will address the gathering hosted by the University of Glasgow from 24^th – 28^th October at the city’s Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Delegates and speakers will debate the challenges facing the development of knowledge and information systems, and how these might shape the direction of future research.

Speakers from industry include Ed Chi, a research scientist from Google who works on the Google+ project, Meredith Ringel Morris and Stephen Robertson both from Microsoft Research, as well as co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex Ilya Segalovich and ThomsonReuters’ vice president Khalid Al-Kofahi.

From academia, Professor David Karger from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor Justin Zobel (University of Melbourne) and Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome 1) will be providing keynote addresses, with many other academic speakers presenting their latest research. Indeed, the conference will include sessions on privacy, social media, as well as search engine development and evaluation, as well as satellite events on topics such as databases in the Cloud and online books.

The organiser at the University of Glasgow, Iadh Ounis said “This is a great opportunity for Glasgow to bring together experts from industry and academia to debate the issues facing computer science today and into the future. The event will provide a fertile opportunity to network and make new connections in this innovative field of study”.

First run in 1992, the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CKIM) has successfully brought together the best talent in industry (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, ThomsonReuters) and academia, including leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. Since then, it has grown to one of the well-known top tier and leading conferences in computing science.