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<center> ---+ Presentation of the workshop ACAT ---++ "Advanced Computing and Analysis techniques for Physics Research" </center> The ACAT workshop series is dedicated to the development of _computing techniques and tools_ targeting _basic science research_, and in particular, in _physics_. The Workshop series started back in 1990 in Lyon (France) under the different acronym of *AIHENP* standing for _Artificial Intelligence in High Energy and Nuclear Physics_. It was set to discuss the benefits recent advances in computing sciences in _"Artificial Intelligence"_ could bring to this research field. More precisely, the question raised was "How computers can achieve tasks occurring in research going beyond mere numerical computations ?" In the second session (1992 in La Londe Les Maures, France), one of the very first presentations of the [[http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bibliography.html][ _World Wide Web_]] project before a wide and international audience was given by Tim Berners-Lee. But the workshop series helped many other ideas to emerge in _event filtering_ (neural nets and genetic algorithm), in _user graphic interfaces_, in _data analysis_ or _automated cross-section computations_. The workshops organized every 18 months were held then successively in Oberammergau (Germany), Pisa (Italy), Lausanne (Switzerland), Heraklion (Greece), Batavia (USA), Moscow (Russia), Tsukuba (Japan), Zeuthen (Germany), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Erice (italie), Jaipur (India), Uxbridge(UK), Beijing (China), Prague (Czech Rep.), Valparaison (Chile) (see on [[http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&cc=Conferences&p=acat&action_search=Search][Inspire]] the full list) Since the US event, the series switched its acronym to *ACAT* to emphasis the growing importance of tools and infrastructures for data analysis and to open its scope to a wider field of applications. Proceedings have been published by the [[http://www.cnrseditions.fr/][CNRS editions]], [[http://www.worldscientific.com/][World Scientific]], [[http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505701/description#description][Elsevier Nuclear Instruments and Methods A]], [[http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/583/][AIP Conference proceedings]], [[http://pos.sissa.it/index.html][Proceedings of Science]] and [[http://][IOP]] Organizing formal and informal *discussions* is the main *raison d'être* of the workshop. Back in 1990, it was important to gather people working in similar or related fields, but having no easy means to exchange and confront ideas and results. Nowadays, researchers often clustered in large experiments have little opportunities to meet their colleagues in other big experiments. The workshop series is meant to overcome both pitfalls for the sake of a more efficient research. The "[[http://ACAT-AIHENP.in2p3.fr][Computing in Physics]]" blog covers all the topics discussed in ACAT and more. Feel free to contribute. %INCLUDE{"MainTopics"}% -- Main.DenisPerretGallix - 10 Oct 2007
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