Monday, January 26, 2009

FBK retreat - The future of scientific and technological research


On Thursday 29 and Friday 30, January 2009 here in FBK there will be the Retreat event “New Directions for Scientific and Technological Research”. Here you can find the programme. You can also connect to the online streaming, starting from the 29th of January. The retreat is organized by the Centers “Materials and Microsystems” and “Information Technology”, and aims to share insights on the future of the Internet and on Nano & Micro Technologies. There will be great invited speakers, such as Peter Seitz (Vice-President Nano-medicine, CSEM SA) - Switzerland, Mark Maybury (Executive Director – MITRE) – USA, Hendrik Berndt (VP & CTO of DoCoMo Eurolabs) – Germany/Japan, Roger Kilian-Kehr (Research Architekt, SAP Research Center CEC Karlsruhe), João da Silva (Director of the Network & Communication DG-INFSO), Malik Ghallab (CEO for Science and Technology – INRIA) - France, Yuichi Matsushima (Vice President of NICT) – Japan, Prabhakar Raghavan (Head of Yahoo! Research) – USA, Wolfgang Wahlster (CEO and Scientific Director of DFKI) - Germany, ...and many others!