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Date: 23-Jun-2008
From: Hamid Arabnia < hra at pixel.cviog.uga.edu >
Subject: The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

 

	
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:51:09
From: Hamid Arabnia [hra at pixel.cviog.uga.edu]
Subject: The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
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The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied
Computing 
Short Title: WORLDCOMP'08 

Date: 14-Jul-2008 - 17-Jul-2008 
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA 
Contact: Hamid Arabnia 
Contact Email: hra at pixel.cviog.uga.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Call For Participation

WORLDCOMP'08
The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,Computer Engineering, and Applied
Computing

Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws 

This is an invitation to attend WORLDCOMP'08 Congress.  WORLDCOMP'08 is composed
of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and workshops); all will be
held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008. Attendees will
have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. 
See below for: the complete list of joint-conferences, list of sponsors,
registration information, hotel information, and some highlights.

List of Joint Conferences:

BIOCOMP'08: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
CDES'08: Computer Design
CGVR'08: Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality
CIC'08: Communications in Computing
CSC'08: Scientific Computing
DMIN'08: Data Mining
EEE'08: e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government
ERSA'08: Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms
ESA'08: Embedded Systems & Applications
FCS'08: Foundations of Computer Science
FECS'08: Frontiers in Education: CS and CE
GCA'08: Grid Computing & Applications
GEM'08: Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
ICAI'08: Artificial Intelligence
ICOMP'08: Internet Computing
ICWN'08: Wireless Networks
IKE'08: Information & Knowledge Engineering
IPCV'08: Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
ITSL'08: Information Theory & Statistical Learning
MLMTA'08: Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications
MSV'08: Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods
PDPTA'08: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications
SAM'08: Security & Management
SERP'08: Software Engineering Research & Practice
SWWS'08: Semantic Web & Web Services

Sponsors: (partial list)

Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors: (a partial list)
Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and MIT, USA
Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program
George Mason University, Virginia, USA
Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine,
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
PSU - Prince Sultan University
Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Russia.
NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Vienna

Corporate Co-Sponsors: (a partial list)
Google, Inc.
Salford Systems
Synplicity
NIIT Technologies

Other Co-Sponsors: (a partial list)
High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
International Technology Institute (ITI)
GridToday
HPCwire
Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK

Conference Schedule/Program:

The complete WORLDCOMP'08 schedule/program is available at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/program

Registration Information:

To attend the congress, use the following online registration link:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/registration

Hotel Reservation:

WORLDCOMP'08 will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with
any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is a mega hotel with excellent
conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with
24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many
recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows, a number of
restaurants, etc.  The hotel is within walking distance from most other
attractions (recreational destinations, golf courses, ...).
You are to reserve your hotel room directly by calling Monte Carlo Resort at
1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make sure that you mention the Group Code
''XWRLD8'' (XWRLD8 is the keyword that the hotel will use to handle the reserved
block of rooms for the Congress).  You should reserve your room as soon as
possible since our block is very close to being fully booked.  There are also
many other hotels nearby.

Keynote Lectures: (this is a partial list)

The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
Prof. David A. Patterson
Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past President, ACM; Member,
National Academy of Engineering; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of
IEEE, ACM, & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.

Searching in the ''Real World''
Prof. Ophir Frieder
The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown
University; IITRI Chair Professor of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology;
Director, Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS

Achieving your Dreams
Anousheh Ansari
CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA; and Space Ambassador

Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in Electronic System Designs
Chris Phillips
Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA

The Burgeoning Field of Network Science
Dr. Frederick I. Moxley
Department of Defense Fellow & Visiting Professor, Director of Research and
Deputy Director of the Network Science Center; Electrical Engineering & Computer
Science Department; United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA
         
High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link to the
Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and National Human Genome Research
Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
           
The Emerging Field of Translational Bioinformatics - A National Perspective 
Prof. Brian D. Athey
Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Departments of Psychiatry
and Internal Medicine; Associate Director, U-M Center for Computational Medicine
and Biology (CCMB); Director, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP), Michigan
Institute for Clinical and Health Research; Principal Investigator, NIH National
Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics; The University of Michigan
Medical School, USA

''Unfoldomics'' of Human Diseases
Prof. Vladimir N. Uversky
Senior Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis,
Indiana, USA and Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Planned Tutorials (this is a partial list):
Tutorial attendance is free to registered attendees of WORLDCOMP'08 and all its
associated conferences (most are 3 1/2 hours long):

Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel & Distributed Computing
Systems
Prof. H. J. Siegel
Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Prof. of ECE & Prof. of CS; Director, CSU
Information Science & Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, Colorado, USA

Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems Dr. Sandeep
Chatterjee
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Source Trace Systems, Inc., USA

Sensor Networks - Technologies, Protocols and Algorithms
Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications in Data Mining
Ashu M. G. Solo
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA

A Tour of Advanced Data Mining Methodologies
Mikhail Golovnya
Senior Scientist, Salford Systems, USA

Exploration of Quantum Cryptography in Network Security
Mehrdad S. Sharbaf
Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA

Introduction to Asynchronous Circuits and NULL Convention Logic (NCL)
Scott C. Smith, Waleed K. Al-Assadi, and Jia Di
University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA; Missouri University of Science &
Technology, Missouri, USA
(who gratefully acknowledge the support from the National Science Foundation
under (NSF) CCLI grants DUE-0536343, DUE-0717572, & DUE-0717767.)

Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and possibly in C++)
Prof. Ray Kresman
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

Parallel-Coordinate-Plots at Age 30: Why and How GeoDa Software Works as a
Powerful and Intuitive Method for Geovisualizing Demographic Data
Prof. J. Kevin Byrne
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA &
St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA

Teaching Graph Algorithms Using Java Online Package IAPPGA
Prof. Mingshen Wu
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA

Introduction to Digital Forensics Research
Prof. Robert F. Erbacher
Utah State University, Utah, USA

Ontological Engineering: Analyzing, Designing and Implementing a Real-World
Semantic Web Ontology
Dr. Dan Dunne, Ontological Consultant, USA

Processing Geo-Semantic Knowledge and Visuals David Dodds
Director, Open-Meta Computing Inc, Canada

Parallel Input/Output Techniques in High-Performance Computing Systems
Prof. Jesus Carretero
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain







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