The ceremony of the Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching "Vassilis XANTHOPOULOS - Stephanos PNEVMATIKOS" The ceremony of the Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching "Vassilis XANTHOPOULOS - Stephanos PNEVMATIKOS" will be held at the main Hall of the Old Parliament in Athens on December 14 2010, at 19.00 p.m.

PlanetData: A European network of excellence for large-scale data management over the Internet is launched.Researchers from the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, participate in PlanetData together with teams from another 6 European countries.

The title of "Docteur Honoris Causa de l' Universite de la Mediterranee", Marseille, France.Professor Costas Fotakis, Director of IESL/FORTH, has been awarded the title of "Docteur Honoris Causa de l' Universite de la Mediterranee", Marseille, France.

Public Lecture by Professor Adi Shamir (TURING AWARD 2002) in the framework of 2010 Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series on Computer ScienceOn Wednesday 30 June, 8 p.m. at FORTH Amphitheater, Professor Adi Shamir (The Weizmann Institute of Science and winner of the Turing Award 2002) will give public lecture on "How Cryptosystems Are Really Broken" in the framework of 2010 Onassis Foundation Science Lecture Series on Computer Science.