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We are delighted to announce: The Royal Society Discussion Meeting "From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020" 17-18th March 2008 The Royal Society, London http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/event.asp?id=6065&month=3,2008 Organisers: Marta Kwiatkowska, Tom Rodden and Vladimiro Sassone The convergence of wireless networks with new sensing technologies and devices has started to embed computers into our everyday life. This meeting will consider this shift to 'Ubiquitous Computing' as an interdisciplinary grand challenge affecting all aspects of computer science that has massive implications for how we might reason about, build and experience computer systems with considerable issues for society. PROGRAMME Computing and software Jeanette Wing, CMU/NSF, Computational thinking Rocco de Nicola, University of Florence, Global computing Tom Henzinger, EPFL, Challenges in embedded systems design Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Self-* properties of complex systems Architecture and technology Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, Invisible computing Andy Hopper FRS, University of Cambridge, Sentient computing Margaret Martonosi, Princeton, Power-efficient architectures Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich, Network architectures for ubiquitous computing Can we trust computers? Mogens Nielsen, Aarhus University, Trust specification and analysis Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Trust, security and privacy in ubiquitous computing Ronald Rivest, MIT, Cryptography and security, with a focus on E-voting The human viewpoint Gary Marsden, Cape Town, Mobile interaction design for developing nations Adam Greenfield, Consultant, Everyware: Some Social and Ethical Implications of Ubiquitous Computing Jonathan Zittrain and John Palfrey, Harvard/OMII, Legal and ethical issues Sir Ara Darzi, Imperial College, Medical applications of pervasive computing PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of the meeting will be published in the high impact Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, see http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1084 which ranks 4th in the ISI Multidisciplinary Sciences category. REGISTRATION See the webpage: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/event.asp?id=6065&month=3,2008 Best wishes, Vladimiro Sassone, University of Southampton on behalf of: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22 Robin Milner FRS, University of Cambridge, http://www.fairdene.com/ picalculus/robinmilner.html Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~tar Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ oucl/people/marta.kwiatkowska.html Morris Sloman, Imperial College, http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mss UKCRC Grand Challenge in Ubiquitous Computing: Science, Experience and Design http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/Projects/UbiNet/GC/index.html