Opening Workshop of Interlink

The first InterLink workshop took place on May 10-12 in Eze, close to Monaco. This workshop brought together all three of InterLink’s working groups set up to address the following thematic areas:

• Software intensive systems and new computing paradigms;
• Ambient computing and communication environments;
• Intelligent and cognitive systems.

According to Walter Van de Velde, Scientific Officer, Future & Emerging Technologies, European Commission DG Information Society and Media, “Scientists across the world want to work together - and they do. Today, internationalisation of research is a reality. But when substantial public funding is needed to boost such research, mutually acceptable evaluation and selection procedures and well-balanced collaboration agreements turn out to be more difficult to implement. Within the broad scope of future and emerging ICT, the InterLink workshops will identify topics on which international collaboration would be most fruitful. They will take stock of ongoing collaborations and explore possible ways of implementing substantial international win-win research tandems in the future.”

About 60 scientists from Europe, Asia and the Americas attended the workshop. The overall goals of the workshop were to identify, for each thematic area, the visionary research challenges that warrant the focus of the relevant research community, and the opportunities for international collaboration in these domains. This will be documented in lecture notes and white papers.

Please find below the Opening Workshop presentations:

Second Series of InterLink Workshops

The second series of workshops is intended to identify specific areas where further research efforts should be concentrated at a European level:

• Ambient computing and communication environments, 5-7 November 2007, Eltville-Hattenheim, Germany
  
• Intelligent and cognitive systems, 15-16 November 2007, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Software intensive systems and new computing paradigms, 3-4 December 2007, Munich, Germany

Third Series of InterLink Workshops

The third series of workshops is intended to gather feedback from and foster international collaborations with the American and Asian research groups:

• Ambient Computing and Communication Environments, 18-20 June 2008, Tokyo, Japan
• Software-Intensive Systems and New Computing Paradigms, 28-29 July 2008, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
• Intelligent Cognitive Systems , 4-5 September 2008, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Consolidation Workshop

• Consolidation Workshop, Cannes, 12-14 November 2008 (Draft Programme)

Dissemination Workshop

• Dissemination Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, 22 April 2009, 18:00-20:00, in the context of the European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (FET'09).