MORE than 700 international technology experts began arriving in Glasgow yesterday for the start of one of the world's largest computer science conventions, the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, which is being held in the city all this week.
Speakers from industry include Dr Ed Chi, a research scientist from Google who works on the Google+ project, Dr Meredith Ringel Morris and Dr Stephen Robertson, both from Microsoft Research, as well as co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex, Ilya Segalovich, and ThomsonReuters’ vice-president Khalid Al-Kofahi.
The conference, at the city’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, was organised by Glasgow University.
Dr Iadh Ounis, of Glasgow University, said: “This is a great opportunity for Glasgow to bring together experts from industry and academia to debate the issues facing computer science today and into the future.”
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