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	Events 18th - 19th March 2008 Grand Challenges in Computing Research Conference (GCCR 08) London, UK GCCR’08 will take place over two days from 18-19 March 2008 in London. It is timed to follow on from the Ubiquitous Computing discussion meeting being held at the Royal Society on 17-18 March (http://royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=6065). As indicated in the title GCCR’08 will focus on the research grand challenges that were established by UKCRC in 2002. GCCR’08 will start formally with a thought leadership style panel and debate/dinner at The Royal Society on the evening of the 18 March, followed by a plenary day at the BCS London office on the 19 March to discuss where we have got to with the grand challenges activity and where we should take it next. EPSRC is rolling out the concept of Grand Challenges across all disciplines, using what the CS community has done as one of the role models for this activity. It is important that as a community we continue to evolve and develop the computing research grand challenges to make sure they stay relevant and significant. GCCR’08 will be sponsored by the BCS and IET through UKCRC, and this means we have kept the registration costs to £53 (including VAT). 18th March 2008 Memories for Life/Grand Challenges in Computing Workshop London, United Kingdom Please see below for the first call for participation in a Memories for Life workshop on day one of GCCR’08 from Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Chair of Grand Challenge 3: Memories For Life Workshop: 18th March 2008 Location: British Computer Society, Southampton Street, London Call for Participation The Memories for Life (M4L) Grand Challenge is currently seeking to build on the work of the EPSRC Network on M4L. One of the chief outputs of the network was a road map for future M4L-based research, and the M4L workshop at GCCR 08 will focus on (a) moving research in this area forward in the context of the road map and current funding opportunities within the Research Councils, (b) presenting current research in this area, and (c) considering how to widen the scope of the M4L community beyond the core members of the M4L network. We therefore call for participants in the M4L workshop to address any of these issues, or to present current relevant projects. Our aims are to produce concrete actions to widen the community’s scope, to advance the road map, and to identify future areas of interdisciplinary research into memory and the technology of information storage and retrieval. In particular, we would hope to identify and develop some emerging proposals for funding during the course of the workshop. A key objective of the workshop is to help prioritise current research, and to amend the road map accordingly. The current version of the road map is at http://www.memoriesforlife.org/downloads/M4L_ROAD_MAP_2008.pdf. Those interested in participating should send an expression of interest as soon as possible. Places are extremely limited due to the small size of venue, and this, though not compulsory, would be of great help in planning. A short (≤2pp) position paper outlining a view of promising lines of future research, preferably with an interdisciplinary slant, should be sent by Feb 22nd. Key dates are summarised at the end of this call. Examples of topics that submissions may wish to explore include, but are not limited to: • Descriptions of existing or potential systems or applications that use personal digital memories. What are the main challenges that the system deals with, and what benefits does it provide to users? • Descriptions of resources (such as corpora and analysis tools) which can be used by Memories for Life researchers. • Computer science research issues, including how memories are stored, organised, searched, integrated, interpreted, interacted with, and protected (security). Also the impact of new technologies, such as the semantic web. • Cognitive science research issues, including the requirements and prospects of memory prostheses, and analysis of similarities and differences between human memory systems and computer digital memories. For example, humans can forget memories, is there an analogous forgetting in digital memories? • Social research issues, including public policy and legal issues (who has rights to access and modify digital memories?). Important Dates: Distribution of road map: Feb 2nd 2008 Expressions of interest As soon as possible Position papers: Feb 22nd 2008 Final Programme: March 1st 2008 Workshop: March 18th 2008 GC3 Steering Group Chair: Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft) Wendy Hall (University of Southampton) Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen) Send position papers to info@memoriesforlife.org. For more information on M4L, please see http://www.memoriesforlife.org For more information on GCCR’08 Please see http://www.bcs.org/gccr08 The GC3 Memories for Life workshop will be sponsored by the BCS and IET. 12th December 2006 Memories for Life: The Future of our Pasts London, United Kingdom The M4L Network announces a colloquium, to be held at the British Library, London, 12th December 2006. The workshop will consist of a series of panel discussions, intended for a general audience, a poster session, and keynotes. Confirmed speakers include Richard Wiseman (University of Hertfordshire) and Jonathan Zittrain (Oxford Internet Institute). Panellists include Susan Blackmore (independent researcher), Katherine Campbell (BBC), Andrew Charlesworth (Bristol University), Gareth Crossman (Liberty), Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft), Sue Gathercole (University of York), Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), Victor Keegan (The Guardian), Cliff Lynch (Coalition of Networked Information), Richard Morris (University of Edinburgh), Robert Perks (British Library), Tom Rodden (University of Nottingham), Anne Sebba (independent biographer), Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton), John Tuck (British Library),Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield). The topics of the panels are: Personal memory: how important in our daily lives is the recollection (accurate or otherwise) of our past? Technology: future directions: what new devices are waiting for us round the corner? Human Sciences: Psychology, Neuroscience: how much do we know about our memories, how we store and recall knowledge? Social, Ethical and Legal Issues: how will increased access to knowledge affect our society? Each panel will last 60 mins, and will include a short presentation by each panellist, followed by an open discussion session. The colloquium will take place all day. Attendance is free, but the audience is strictly limited to 200 places. Lunch will be provided. If you wish to attend, or need further information, contact us on info@memoriesforlife.org. During the lunch session, posters illustrating promising research will be shown in the foyer. 11th December 2006 Memories for Life Workshop London, United Kingdom This workshop will consist of a series of panel discussions about Memories for Life, before an audience of practitioners and scientists (including social scientists) from a range of disciplines, after an opening welcome from Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library. 9th - 11th October 2006 Constructing and Sharing Memory Prato, Italy 3rd Prato International Community Informatics Conference 18th September 2006 Workshop on Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing, Ubicomp 2006 Orange County, California, USA 19th - 20th May 2006 Technologies of Memory in the Arts Nijmegen, Holland 23rd April 2006 Designing for Collective Remembering Montreal, Canada CHI 2006 Workshop 22nd - 23rd April 2006 Designing Technology for People with Cognitive Impairments Montreal, Canada CHI 2006 Workshop 7th April 2006 eChronicle 2006 Atlanta, USA 29th January 2006 CPAC 2006 Sydney, Australia International Workshop on Cognitive Prostheses and Assisted Communication 12th November 2005 CARPE 2005 Singapore The 2nd ACM Workshop on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences. 18th - 21st October 2005 ISWC'05 Workshop on Ubiquitous Experience Media Osaka, Japan 25th - 28th June 2005 Bodies in Motion: Memory, Personalization, Mobility and Design Banff, Canada "This summit explores the creative, technical, and business potentials of physical interfaces such as wearable computing, sensor based memory devices, location-based rich experiences that rely on ubiquitous computing and mobility." 15th October 2004 CARPE 2004 New York The First ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences. 20th April 2004 Pervasive 2004 Workshop on Memory and Sharing of Experiences Vienna Workshop exploring technical and social issues surrounding the use of pervasive computing in the capture and exploitation of memory and experience.