Abbrevation
WCC
Link
http://www.wcc2008.org/site/
City
Milano
Country
Italy
Start Date
End Date
Abstract

<P>Welcome to the <STRONG>20th World Computer Congress</STRONG> (WCC 2008), the event organized under the advocacy of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) that will take place for the <STRONG>first time in Italy, in Milan from 7th to 10th September 2008</STRONG>&#046; </P> <P><BR>It will be the most important congress dedicated to the Sciences, Information Technologies and Communications ever held in Italy&#046; It will provide a unique opportunity to share with and listen to world&#8211;renowned experts in the academic and research fields&#046;<BR><STRONG>During the four days of congress 2000 delegates, coming from 70 different countries</STRONG>, will debate the main questions and perspectives in ICT domain that is at the heart of the economy of knowledge in the 21st century and in the evolution of our society&#046;</P> <P><BR>WCC 2008 will provide integration between two worlds: Business and Research&#046; This new Italian approach will give the possibility to match the specific subjects of the TCs with cross subjects of the Italian reality, involving therefore the business and the industry sectors&#046; As a structure there will be keynote lectures discussed by high level invited speakers&#046;<BR></P> <P><B>Keywords:</B> </P> <P>The technical conferences:</P> <P>BICC [TC10] Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing <BR>DIPES [WG10&#046;2] Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems <BR>ECS [TC14] 1st IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium <BR>ED_L2L [TC3] Learning to live in the knowledge society <BR>HCE3 [TC9, WG9&#046;7, TC3] History of Computing and Education <BR>HCI [TC13] Human Computer Interaction <BR>IFIP AI [TC12] IFIP Artificial Intelligence 2008 <BR>IFIP SEC [TC11] 23rd International Information Security Conference IFIP <BR>ISREP [TC8] Advances in Information Systems Research, Education, and Practice <BR>KMIA [WG12&#046;6] Knowledge Management in Action <BR>OSS [TC2, WG2&#046;13] Open Source Systems 2008 <BR>TCS [TC1] 5th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science </P>