We are pleased to announce the RUNES Summer School, the aim of which is to disseminate the technologies developed in the project to other scientists and engineers. The Summer School will take place over three consecutive days in July 2007, with the first two comprising technical lectures and related hands-on programming seminars, while the third is self-contained and structured around the RUNES applications and the demonstrator. Our aim is to broaden the students’ appreciation for and interest in the field of networked embedded systems, while also extending their technical skills.

The target audience of the Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, postdocs and academic and industrial researchers and engineers. Some experience in software engineering will be required to make the most of the hands-on programming seminars (days 1 and 2). Emergency services personnel or other interested individuals without a
strong technical background are welcome to attend day 3 which will be pitched at a more general level and will cover the main RUNES scenario/demonstrator.

Research students are invited to submit an abstract for the RUNES Summer School covering topics in middleware, networking and advanced control. Authors whose abstracts are accepted for presentation on the day 2 will be eligible for a refund of their attendance fee.

Registration deadline: June 8, 2007
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2007
Abstract acceptance notification: June 22, 2007
Summer School: July 9-11, 2007

All details, including the School’s programme, registration form, abstract template and travel information can be found at here. Should you have any questions, you can contact the organising committee by emailing summerschool@ist-runes.org