Innovations in Computer Science (ICS)

Innovations in Computer Science (ICS) is a new conference in theoretical computer science, broadly construed, encouraging new ideas, approaches, perspectives, conceptual frameworks and techniques. ICS aims to regain and support the interest in works that are focused on ex ploring novel directions in computation and communicating new conceptual messages (e.g., introduction of a novel model, problem, or technique).

Steering Committee

Sanjeev Arora, Manuel Blum, Bernard Chazelle, Oded Goldreich, Shafi Goldwasser, Richard Karp, Silvio Micali, Christos Papadimitriou, Michael Rabin, Madhu Sudan, Leslie Valiant, Umesh Vazirani, Avi Wigderson , Andrew Yao

Conference Format

The conference will run for two-and-a-half days. The total number of papers will be around 30, so as to allow for ample time for open and one-on-one discussions and exchanges of ideas.  The first two meetings of ICS, in January 2010 and 2011, will be held in Beijing, China, under the auspices and financial support of the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of Tsinghua University. There will be printed proceedings, distributed at the conference, and thereafter available for purchase from Tsinghua University Press.

Program Selection Process

• Novel and promising ideas will be given preference in the selection process. The program committee of ICS will assign significant weight to the conceptual message communicated by the submission.
  
  
• The program committee will prefer papers that open new and fruitful directions of explorations. In other words, ICS will prefer papers that make first steps in new directions and raise new questions, over papers that provide the last word on a well-established direction.
  
  
• At the discretion of the program committee, the evaluation process may be interactive, so as to include questions to the authors and clarifications by them, if necessary.

Initial Logistics

Submission Guidelines

• Submission format: at most 10 pages (including abstract and references), in PDF format.
• Submission deadline: September 15, 2009
• Notification deadline: November 1, 2009
• Camera-ready deadline: November 15, 2009
• Conference:  January 4-7, 2010
• Web site:  http://www.itcs.tsinghua.edu.cn/ICS2010

Frequency   ICS will be held once a year, in January. 

Venue In 2010 and 2011, ICS will be held in Beijing, China, under the auspices and financial support of the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) of Tsinghua University.

Financial Support For the 2010 and 2011 meetings, ITCS will provide full support for one author of each accepted paper, including flight (economy airfare at the minimum of the amount), hotel lodging (up to 4 nights), and registration fee.  In addition, ITCS will also award some travel grants to some graduate students interested in attending ICS.  (The number and amount will be determined based on availability of funds.)

ICS 2010 Program Committee

• Andrew Yao (Chair)
• Michael Ben-Or
  
• Avrim Blum
  
• Cynthia Dwork
  
• Shafi Goldwasser
  
• Michael Kearns
  
• Sanjeev Khanna
• Ming Li
  
• Christos Papadimitriou
  
• Rafael Pass
  
• Nir Shavit
  
• Vijay Vazirani