The BCS is launching its first international academic conference, intended as a major international event to take place in the UK. This year's theme is 'Visions of Computer Science'. We aim to establish the pattern of a high-quality wide-spectrum UK-based conference, with a strong international profile. Moreover, the aim is to energise the UK community and bring it together around positive and inspiring visions of our discipline.

Keynote speakers will include the following ACM Turing Award Winners: Fran Allen, Vint Cerf, Tony Hoare, Dick Karp, Robin Milner, Michael Rabin, Joseph Sifakis.

Invited speakers will include Andrew Campbell - Dartmouth College, Steve Furber - The University of Manchester, Laurie Hendren - McGill University Canada, Nicholas Jennings - University of Southampton, Stephen Muggleton - Imperial College London, Brigitte Plateau - IMAG France, Moshe Vardi - RICE University Texas.

Full programme details

How to book for the conference

List of accepted papers

The proceedings will be published as a book and in the electronic proceedings series (www.bcs.org/ewic) and some of the best papers will appear in The Computer Journal (compjnl.oxfordjournals.org), the archival research publication of the BCS.