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2009 International Conference on Information
management and engineering (icime 2009)
3 to 5 April 2009
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
All accepted papers will also be published in
the conference proceeding by IEEE Computer
Society, which will be indexed by EI Compendex,
INSPEC, Thomson ISI, IEEE XploreTM, IEEE
Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries.
The deadline for full paper is 20 December 2008.
Enquiries: icime2009@gmail.com
Web address: http://www.icime.org/index.htm
Sponsored by: IACSIT
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Call for proposals: Researchers Night 2009
Date:2008-10-14
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research has published a
call for proposals for the 'Researchers' Night 2009' event.
This call is designed for organisations in European Union Member States and
associated countries.
Proposed projects should have a duration of no more than seven months.
The indicative budget amounts to EUR 3 million.
'European Researchers' Night' is a pan-European event involving a wide range
of scientific and research organisations, including museums, laboratories
and academic institutions, which host a variety of entertaining and fun
events planned to run late into the night. The aim is to give the public,
and in particular young people, the opportunity to meet researchers within
the context of festive and 'fun' activities and to highlight the appeal of
pursuing a research career.
Contact person:To see the full details of the call, please consult the
following web address:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/calls/
Remarks:
Category:Calls for proposals
Data Source Provider:Official Journal of the European Union
Document Reference:OJ No C 261 of 14 October 2008
Subject index:Scientific Research,Education, Training,Information, Media
Programme Acronym: FP7-PEOPLE
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> Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art)
>
> A Juried International Competition
>
> Call for Proposals
>
> Deadline: December 15, 2008
>
> http://turbulence.org/networked
>
> Five writers will be commissioned to develop chapters for a
> networked book
> about networked art. The chapters will be open for revision,
> commentary, and
> translation by online collaborators. Each commissioned writer will
> receive
> $3,000 (US).
>
> Networked Committee:
>
> Steve Dietz (Northern Lights, MN) :: Martha CC Gabriel (net artist,
> Brazil)
> :: Geert Lovink (Institute for Network Cultures, The Netherlands) ::
> Nick
> Montfort (Massachusetts Institute for Technology, MA) :: Anne Bray (LA
> Freewaves, LA) :: Sean Dockray (Telic Arts Exchange, LA) :: Jo-Anne
> Green
> (NRPA, MA) :: Eduardo Navas (newmediaFIX) :: Helen Thorington (NRPA,
> NY)
>
> Networked Partners:
>
> New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) :: newmediaFIX :: LA
> Freewaves ::
> Telic Arts Exchange
>
> "A networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and
> read in
> a networked environment." - Institute for the Future of the Book
>
> Networked Goals:
>
> (1) To commission five chapters and publish them online using Wiki/
> blog
> technology to enable the public to revise, update, debate and
> translate them
>
> (2) To present public forums to publicize the online book and solicit
> participation in its development.
>
> Networked Objectives:
>
> :: To develop and publish an online, trans-disciplinary book that will
> address recent artistic developments made possible by computers,
> networks,
> and mobile connectivity
>
> :::: To present the book in an open, participatory and social form
>
> :::::: To document:
>
> :::::::::: the collapse of the traditional distinction between
> artist, art
> work and audience
>
> :::::::::: the shaping of creative practice that is open, contingent
> and
> participatory
>
> :::::::::: the building of virtual communities which, in the words
> of Howard
> Rheingold, "becomes inevitable wherever computer mediated
> communications
> technology becomes available to people anywhere." (The Virtual
> Community,
> 1993)
>
> We invite contributions that critically and creatively rethink how
> networked
> art is categorized, analyzed, legitimized -- and by whom -- as norms
> of
> authority, trust, authenticity and legitimacy evolve.
>
> "Networked" proposes that a history or critique of interactive and/or
> participatory art must itself be interactive and/or participatory;
> that the
> technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a "book" might
> take.
>
> We hope to spark a conversation between researchers and practitioners,
> curators, artists, and academics in the fields of art (music, sound,
> dance,
> e-lit, visual art .), architecture, convergence, mapping, urbanism,
> games,
> sociology, visualization, cultural studies, and environmental studies.
>
> In keeping with the transdisciplinary nature of the book, authors may
> consider, but are by no means limited to, themes such as:
>
> :: cyberspace and identity
> :: ubiquitous computing - surveillance, politics, and privacy
> :: avatars, wearables, bioart and embodiment
> :: collective storytelling, audio narratives and sound art
> :: virtual worlds, mixed realities
> :: locative media - place, mobility, augmented reality
> :: massively multiplayer online games - networked play
> :: responsive architecture and relational environments
> :: social networks
> :: nomadism, psychogeography, and the city
> :: tactical media - performance, agency and activism
> :: open source and crowdsourcing
> :: Originality, copies, remix, mashup
>
> All papers will be reviewed by our international committee.
>
> Commissioned chapters, as well as contributions by collaborators,
> will be
> subject to the Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial-
> Share
> Alike 3.0/Unported: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
>
> Once the chapters are published online, registered users will be
> able to
> revise, add to, and translate the existing texts. There is no end
> date for
> the project. When "Networked" has attracted substantive
> participation, we
> will consider publishing a print version of the project, which may
> itself be
> updated over time.
>
> GUIDELINES:
>
> Submissions must be based on original, unpublished research. They
> should
> include:
>
> 1. Name, address, URL, email and one page CV of author.
>
> 2. A 1000 word proposal that should be accompanied by an abstract of
> no more
> than 250 words and a list of keywords to indicate the subject area
> of the
> chapter. [Each of the commissioned chapters will contain text, images,
> videos, and/or audio.]
>
> 3. Three networked writing samples. Samples may include a blog
> entry, a
> Wikipedia article the applicant worked on extensively, or samples
> from any
> other participatory project (send URLs).
>
> Acceptable Submission Formats: Either a web page (send url in an
> email) or a
> single text document (send as an email attachment)
>
> Final chapters must be no less than 5,000 words.
>
> Submissions and Questions should be sent to: jo at turbulence dot org
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Deadline for Proposals: December 15, 2008
> Notification: January 31, 2009
> Deadline for Complete Chapters: April 30, 2009
> Online Publication Date: July 1, 2009
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INTED2009 (International Technology, Education and
Development Conference)
9th -11th of March, 2009
Valencia (Spain)
Website: http://www.iated.org/inted2009
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1st December 2008
You can submit your abstract at:
http://www.iated.org/inted2009/submit
INTED2009 will be an excellent opportunity to present and discuss your
projects and innovations on education and research in a multicultural
forum that will count with the presence of professors and researchers
from all continents of the world.
The general objective of the conference is to promote international
collaboration in the fields of Education, Technology and Research in all
educational fields and disciplines.
There are 3 presentation modalities: Oral, Poster or Virtual.
Two ISBN publications will be produced with all accepted abstracts and
papers: INTED2009 Abstract CD and INTED2009 Proceedings CD.
We strongly encourage you to submit your abstracts and to attend in
order to share your achievements in the fields of education and
international collaboration.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is December 1st, 2008
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Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 3rd
International Multi-Conference on Society , Cybernetics And
Informatics: IMSCI 2009 (http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/IMSCI ). It
will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 10th - 13th, 2009.
Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: November 6th,
2008
Authors Notification: January 28th, 2009
Camera ready, full papers: February 18th, 2009
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Main Topics:
Information Society Technologies
Knowledge-Based Society
eLearning
eSkills. Computer-Literacy
eHealth
eGovernment
eCommunities
eInclusion, Digital Inclusion or inclusive Information Society. Global
e-Inclusion
eAccessibility - Opening up the Information Society. Digital Divide
eBusiness
eCommerce
Globalization and Informatics/Cybernetics
Interdependencies between Society and Information and Communication
Technologies
Social and Societal Roles of Information and Communications Technologies
Information Society Policy-Making
Socio-Political regulations of Informatics and Cyber-Technologies
Ethics and Informatics/Cybernetics
All Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing
processes: (1) double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind,
and (3) participative peer reviews.
Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at each
session. From these session's best papers, the best 10%-20% of the
papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their
papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics
and Informatics.
For Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the conference web site
or directly to: http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/imsci/Organizer.asp
IMSCI 2009 Organizing Committee
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ArtsLink Residencies places artists and arts managers from Eastern and
Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus - ArtsLink Fellows -
at US arts organizations for five-week residencies. Host organizations are
selected by CEC staff from an application process open to non-profit
organizations from all fifty US states.
Deadline: November 3, 2008 for performing arts and literature (residency
will take place in fall 2009)
November 9, 2009 for visual and media arts (residency will take place in
fall 2010)
www.cecartslink.org
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A research-center in cognitive systems and ontology. Our guiding idea is
that theories developed between the end of the 19th century and the
beginning of the 20th in the area we may broadly term "Mitteleuropean" could
offer positive hints to the development of contemporary science.
Mitteleuropa Foundation has been established in Bolzano, North Italy, in
February 2002. A number of events organized during the period 1987-2001
paved the way to the Foundation. See the Past Events page for information on
some of the previous events.
The premises of the Foundation are situated in an ancient building, recently
refurbished, located in the medieval center of the town, endowed with a
specialized library, actually under construction, offices, computer
facilities and study-rooms.