CUbRIK Summer School - Rhodes July 2-4, 2014

The EU project CUbRIK (Human Enhanced Time Aware Multimedia Search) is glad to announce the CUbRIK Summer School that will be held in Ixia, in the island of Rhodes, at the Sheraton Rhodes Resort from July 2-4, 2014.

Participants will learn how to design and develop solutions that mix machine and human computation intelligence for search-based applications.

Locally supported by the Information Technologies Institute of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, who is partner in CUbRIK, the event aims to engage students, researchers, and practitioners in theoretical and practical aspects of multimedia search empowered by social media, crowdsourcing and serious gaming technologies. The hottest opportunities for deployment in an industrial perspective will be illustrated, including CUbRIK applications by domains (Fashion and Humanities) and SocialSensor technologies and tools (News Media Industry).

Research advances will be discussed with project representatives and top international experts.
Invited speakers are key representatives of reference academic institutions and industrial companies in multimedia

Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Dr Dimitrios Tzovaras, Director of ITI
Dr Petros Daras , Head of VCLab, ITI
CrowdFlower
Dr Alexander Sorokin, Head of Data Science
DSTech Dymanics & Solution Technology
Dr Francesco Romano Marcellino, CEO
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA
Dr Francesco Saverio Nucci, Application Research Director
Google Germany GmbH
Dr Thomas Steiner, Customer Solutions Engineer
University of Amsterdam
Dr Maarten de Rijke, Director of ISLA


The school is tightly associated with major European research projects in multimedia search of the 7th FP.
The program is organised across session topics about

CUBRIK concepts and practical session
Search engines
Business ecosystem

Details at http://cubrik.iti.gr/programme/.


REGISTRATION AND LOGISTICS

Participation is free of charge, nevertheless attendance is limited to 50 participants, their admission is based on evaluation of applicants curricula and experience.
Interested participants must register by February 20th 2014.
Application form and further details are at http://cubrik.iti.gr/registration/

Participant are in charge of making their own choices for accomodation. Several hotels at walking distances are available for students and teachers. Further information at http://cubrik.iti.gr/venue/
Lunches and coffee breaks will be provided at the School location.


CONTACTS

Mrs. Sofia Segouli
CERTH- ITI, Information Technologies Institute
6th km Charilaou – Thermi, 57001
Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
P.O. Box 60361
Tel: +30 2311 257714
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: sofia@iti.gr

Mrs. Maria Zampoka
CERTH- ITI Information Technologies Institute
1st km Thermi- Panorama Road
57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
P.O. Box 60361
Tel: +30.2310.464160 (155)
Fax: +30.2310.464164
Website:http://vcl.iti.gr
Email: zampoka@iti.gr


IMPORTANT DATES:
20 February 2014 Deadline for Participation Applications
01-14 March 2014 Notification of Acceptance
01 April 2014 Registration opens
01 May 2014 Registration closes/Poster Abstract Submissions deadline