METIS 2012 - The Fifth Edition of the International Spring School on Distributed Systems: 'The Future of Social Networks'

The 5th Edition of the International Spring School METIS’2012 will be held at the Movenpick Hotel, Tangier, May 7-9, 2012, Morocco.
The objective of the series of this Spring School METIS is to provide scientific support to young PhD students and Engineers from Morocco and North Africa allowing them to be aware of the recent development and research problems related to distributed systems (architecture, security, mobility, reliability).
The previous editions METIS'2008 in Rabat, METIS'2009 in Marrakech, METIS'2010 in Fez and METIS'2011 in Marrakech have known a great success and were greatly appreciated by young PhD students and Engineers from more than 12 countries (50 participants in 2008, 80 participants in 2009,100 during 2010, and more than 120 participants during 2011).
The topics of this year will evolve around The Future of Social Networking with the following world-class speakers:
PROGRAM
User and Topic Analytics on the Social Web of News :
Dr Sihem Amer-Yahia; QCRI, Qatar & CNRS Grenoble, France (formerly with AT&T and Yahoo, NJ)
Challenges in digital services delivery: the cloud vs. the crowd :
Dr Christophe Diot; Technicolor, France (formerly with Intel and Thomson, Palo Alto)
A Brief History of Computing: from Mohammed al-Khwarizmi and Alain Turing to Mark Zuckerberg and Miss X:
Prof Rachid Guerraoui.; EPFL, Switzerland (formerly with MIT and HP Labs in Palo Alto)
Hiding your profile in social networks:
Dr Anne-Marie Kermarrec; Anne Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France (formerly with Vrije Univ in Amsterdam and Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
The future of social networks:
Prof. Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica, Madrid & Columbia University, USA
Research and Development at Facebook:
Dr Rodrigo Schmidt, Facebook, USA
Internet measurements: fault detection, identification, and topology discovery :
Dr Renata Texeira; LIP6, Paris & Berkeley, USA
CONTACT
Mohammed Erradi: mohamed.erradi-AT-gmail.com, erradi-AT-ensias.ma