After a long preparation, SPIRE 2011 is coming.
Monday 17th will be the first day of SPIRE 2011, with four great tutorials given by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Introduction to Web Retrieval), Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri (Introduction to Sequence Learning: Problems and Algorithms), Vanessa Murdock (Computational Geography), Francisco Claude and Gonzalo Navarro (Space-Efficient Data Structures).
Then from Tuesday from Thursday we will have the main conference event, with ten sessions, each one with the presentation of three long papers and a short one.
SPIRE 2011 will host two great invited speakers: on Tuesday Erik Demaine will give his keynote talk on Constructing Strings at the Nano Scale via Staged Self-Assembly, while on Wednesday the keynote talk will be given by Abdur Chowdhury.
It is worth a mention also the social events program, which include a SP-vs-IR football math (Monday), a concert of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (Tuesday, preceded by a welcome reception), and the banquet at Certosa di Calci (Wednesday).
Last but not least, Friday 21st will be dedicated to workshops: Workshop on the Algorithmic Analysis of Biological Data (WAABD 2011), and Workshop On Compression, Text, And Algorithms (WCTA 2011).
If you think that this is worth a trip to Pisa, registration is still open.
Our (Fabrizio Sebastiani and me) paper “Machines that Learn how to Code Open-Ended Survey Data” has been selected as a finalist for the best paper award of the International Journal of Market Research (for articles published in 2010)!
