“…These sessions dealt with questions of marketing and economics as well as applications in the scientific and humanistic fields. Thus to the orientation in hardware and software was added the direction of applications and management in the disciplines that are concerned with information processing. …”

“…The hybrid conference this year indeed brings greater challenges for organization. Firstly, we need to choose an appropriate conference venue that can accommodate hundreds of attendees. …”

“…Since 1999, several works that were originally presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received a Best Animated Short Academy Award…”

“…In her talk titled Guiding and Implementing AI, Susan Athey (Stanford) drew on the theories of causal inference and incentive design to generate insights and research paths for the design of AI systems and organizations that integrate AI and human decision makers. …”

“…These hybrid, materially-oriented approaches are radically changing our understanding of what tangible interaction looks and feels like. …”

“…Their research provide deeper insights into transcending conventional HAI development strategies in order to provide technological solutions to intractable social problems, and into utilizing neuropsychological mechanisms for social cognition including interaction, intention, free will, and mind. …”

“…All papers were evaluated by at least three reviewers with respect to their originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference themes. …”

“…Special thanks go to Elisa Bertino (Blue Sky/Vision Chair), Aniket Kate (Panels Chair), Axel Kern (Demonstrations Chair), Murtuza Jadliwala (Poster Chair), James Joshi (Test of Time Award Chair), Dongwan Shin (Webmaster), Hongxin Hu (Proceedings Chair) and Giovanni Livraga (Publicity Chair) for their help in organizing and publicizing the symposium. We also thank the members of the steering committee and especially its chair, Elena Ferrari, for providing valuable advice and support…”

“…This twenty-fifth meeting of KDD has many firsts; a record number of submissions (400+ more than the prior record), a double blind review process for research track, increased focus on diversity and inclusion through the organization and programmatic elements, a record number of workshops in the program to enable small group interactions, the addition of Earth Day as a special theme day focusing on environment and climate change, a comprehensive offering of hands-on tutorials from most major machine learning tool vendors, evolving the KDD Cup into a multi-theme contest with significant prize money, and ensuring that we can provide childcare for participants, to name a few. …”

“…Recognizing that a multiplicity of perspectives leads to stronger science, the conference organizers actively welcomed and encouraged people with differing identities, expertise, backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences to participate. …”

“…We commend the groups for organizing this significant body of work across multiple time zones and adopting a hybrid approach, allowing Working Group members who could not travel to meaningfully contribute to the final report. …”

“…Vast amounts of privacy-sensitive data are being collected today by organizations for a variety of reasons. Unauthorized disclosure, modification, usage, or denial of access to these data and corresponding services may result in high human and financial costs. …”

“…We hope that you take advantage of the poster sessions, but also other breaks, to study the posters and to interact directly with the paper authors. During the oral sessions, selected papers will be presented as 10 minute presentations, followed by a question and answer period. …”

“…Therefore, the purpose of this workshop is to: 1. bring together the state of the art research on human-centric multimedia analysis; 2. call for a coordinated effort to understand the opportunities and challenges emerging in human-centric multimedia analysis; 3. identify key tasks and evaluate the state-of-the-art methods; 4. showcase innovative methodologies and ideas; 5. introduce interesting real-world human-centric multimedia analysis systems or applications; and 6. propose new real-world datasets and discuss future directions. We solicit original contributions in all fields of human-centric multimedia analysis that explore the multi-modality data to help us understand the heavier of humans and promote the multimodal human-machine interaction. …”

“…Next, I would like to thank the various organizing committees that ensure that HPDC remains a top-tier conference at the intersection of high performance and distributed computing. …”

“…More and more communities from both academia and industry have initiated the endeavors to solve these challenges. We organized this workshop to provide a venue for both the research and engineering communities to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and new ideas in the practice of Deep Learning on high-dimensional sparse data…”

“…Phillipe Giabbanelli who worked tirelessly to shepherd papers and organize the conference. We are also grateful to all the chairs and thankful to our sponsor the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Industry Association. …”

“…These keynotes will both focus on networked robots, in automated order fulfillment (a 'killer application') and in space robotics, respectively…”

“…However, being involved in the organization of a conference such as SAICSIT certainly helps compensate for this. …”

“…At the conclusion of the review process, we accepted 10 full papers, which will be orally presented at the forum. The proceeding of the forum includes seven of these 10 papers, with the authors of the other three choose to only orally present their paper at the forum. …”