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November 7, 2008
CSE Faculty member Mohamed Mokbel served as Co-program Chair for the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008).
The conference is the premier annual conference of the newly established ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL).
The conference had around 200 attendees and featured two great keynote speakers: Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI, and Vinton Cerf, VP of Google and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner. The conference received 193 submissions for research papers, among which only 38 papers are accepted as full papers with an acceptance rate of 19%.
ACM GIS was held November 5-7, in Irvine, CA.
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