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UIST 2026 in Detroit: Travel Guide
UIST 2026 runs from 2 to 5 November at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. Monday is workshops and the Doctoral Symposium; the main con...
FCRC 2027 in Atlanta: Travel Guide
The Federated Computing Research Conference runs from 5 to 11 June 2027 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, and it is worth understanding why that single...
The 2027 CS Conference Calendar: Clusters and Clashes
Most conference planning happens one conference at a time: a deadline appears, you submit, and if it lands you work out the travel. Looking at a wh...
AAMAS 2027 in Hanoi: Travel Guide
AAMAS 2027 runs from 3 to 7 May 2027 at the JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi. It is the 26th edition of the main conference for autonomous agents and multia...
CLUSTER, CI and HCOMP 2026 in Alexandria: Travel Guide
Three conferences run in the same building outside Washington DC across nine days this September. CLUSTER 2026 is there from 22 to 25 September. CI...
RecSys 2026 in Minneapolis: Travel Guide
RecSys 2026 is the 20th edition of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, and it runs from 28 September to 2 October at the Minneapolis Marriot...
MobiCom and CoRL 2026 in Austin: Travel Guide
Austin gets two conferences this autumn, two weeks apart, in the same few blocks. MobiCom 2026 runs from 26 to 30 October at the Austin Convention ...
What FOSDEM Gets Right: The Case for Community Conferences
FOSDEM costs nothing to attend. It draws more than 8,000 developers to a university campus in Brussels, runs about 65 parallel developer rooms, and...
SPLASH and ISSTA 2026 in Oakland: Travel Guide
SPLASH 2026 and ISSTA 2026 are not two trips. They are one week, in one building, and the organisers have stopped pretending otherwise: the event i...
FOCS 2026 and TCC 2026 in New York: Travel Guide
FOCS 2026 runs from 8 to 11 November at the NYU Kimmel Center on Washington Square. TCC 2026 runs from 10 to 13 November, in the same building. Wh...
Rome for Conferences: ESORICS 2026 and CIKM 2026 Travel Guide
Rome hosts two CORE A conferences this autumn. ESORICS 2026, the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, runs 14 to 18 September. CIKM...
The CS Conference Submission Glossary
Every call for papers assumes you already know the vocabulary. Nobody teaches it, most of it is never written down in one place, and the terms that...
MICCAI 2026 Strasbourg: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
MICCAI 2026 runs from 27 September to 1 October at the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention...
Every CORE A* Conference: The 2026 to 2027 Calendar
CORE A* is the top band of the CORE ranking, and in computer science it is the closest thing the field has to a shortlist. The problem is that nobo...
CCS 2026 The Hague: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
CCS 2026 runs from 15 to 19 November at The World Forum in The Hague. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security is one of the four...
Where to Publish in Cybersecurity: A Guide for Doctoral Researchers
Most advice about publishing in security starts and stops with four conferences. IEEE S&P, CCS, USENIX Security and NDSS are the venues that ge...
ICDE 2027 Copenhagen: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
ICDE 2027 runs from 17 to 21 May at Vesterport in central Copenhagen. The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering is the A*-ranked flagsh...
CS Conference Acceptance Rates: What 64 Venues Actually Show
Acceptance rate is the number everyone quotes and almost nobody contextualises. It goes in job talks, on CVs, in the first line of grant reports. I...
ASE 2026 Munich: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
ASE 2026 runs from 12 to 16 October at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre. The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering ...
From Deadline to Talk: How CS Conference Timing Actually Works
Everyone learns the rhythm of their own subfield eventually: this deadline in the autumn, that conference the following summer. What is harder to s...
Where Computer Science Conferences Actually Happen
Ask a room of researchers where computer science conferences happen and most will say the United States, then hedge toward “Europe, sometimes.” Tha...
ICPR 2026 Lyon: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
ICPR 2026 runs August 17 to 22 at the Lyon Convention Centre. The International Conference on Pattern Recognition is the biennial flagship of the I...
Athens for Conferences: MICRO 2026 and EACL 2027 Travel Guide
Athens is about to host two very different flagships within a few months: MICRO 2026, the A* IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture,...
INFOCOM 2027 Honolulu: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
INFOCOM 2027 runs May 24 to 27 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort in Honolulu. IEEE INFOCOM is the flagship A* conference in compu...
SOSP 2026 Prague: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
SOSP 2026 runs September 29 to October 2 at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague. The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles is the oldest a...
UAI 2026 Amsterdam: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
UAI 2026 runs August 18 to 20 at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence is the A* ...
How Much Does It Cost to Attend an Academic Conference?
Ask how much a conference costs and you will get answers ranging from “my advisor paid, no idea” to a horror story with a four-digit hotel bill. He...
CRYPTO 2026 Santa Barbara: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
CRYPTO 2026 runs August 17 to 20 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with the affiliated events (ITC, CFAIL, CLAW, PPML, and WAC8) fill...
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Bremen: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 runs August 15 to 21 at Messe Bremen. This is a special edition: the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and ...
ECML-PKDD 2026 Naples: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
ECML-PKDD 2026 runs September 7 to 11 at the University of Naples Federico II. Europe’s flagship conference for machine learning and knowledge disc...
EurIPS 2026 Paris: NeurIPS Without the 24-Hour Flight
EurIPS 2026 runs December 9 to 13 in Paris, and it might be the most consequential travel decision in machine learning this year. With NeurIPS 2026...
Hong Kong for Conference Travelers: Asiacrypt 2026, WSDM 2027, and ICCV 2027
Hong Kong is about to have a serious run on the conference calendar: Asiacrypt 2026 this December 7 to 11, WSDM 2027 February 15 to 19, and then th...
NeurIPS 2026 Sydney: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
NeurIPS 2026 runs December 6 to 12 at the International Convention Centre Sydney. The largest machine learning conference on earth heads to the sou...
ECCV 2026 Malmö: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
ECCV 2026 runs September 8 to 13 at Malmömässan in Malmö, Sweden. The European Conference on Computer Vision is one of the field’s three A* flagshi...
The Big List of CS Conference Travel Grants and Scholarships
Last updated July 2026. We revisit this list regularly as deadlines and programs change. Attending a major CS conference typically costs $1,500 to...
DEF CON 34 Las Vegas: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
DEF CON 34 runs August 6 to 9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The world’s largest hacker conference fills the LVCC’s West Hall with talks, vill...
ACL 2026 San Diego: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
ACL 2026 runs July 2 to 7 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics is the ...
SIGCSE vs ICER vs ITiCSE: A Guide to Computer Science Education Conferences
If you do research or teaching in computing education, three conferences come up again and again: SIGCSE, ICER, and ITiCSE. They are all run by ACM...
FLoC 2026 Lisbon: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
Every four years the logic and formal methods community holds the Federated Logic Conference, and in 2026 it lands at ISCTE in Lisbon from July 20 ...
VLDB 2026 Boston: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
VLDB 2026 runs August 31 to September 4 at the Westin Boston Seaport District. The 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases is the A*...
USENIX Security 2026 Baltimore: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
USENIX Security 2026 runs August 12 to 14 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. The 35th USENIX Security Symposium is one of the four flagship venu...
Citation Metrics Explained: h-index, Impact Factor, h5-index and the Rest
Open your Google Scholar profile and you see an h-index and an i10-index. Look at a journal’s homepage and it advertises an Impact Factor. Check a ...
KDD 2026 Jeju Island: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
KDD 2026 runs August 9-13 at the International Convention Center Jeju on South Korea’s volcanic island. The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Disc...
OSDI 2026 Seattle: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
OSDI 2026 lands in Seattle this July, running July 13 to 15 at The Westin Seattle. The USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementat...
Machine Learning Conference Acceptance Rates: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI
If you are deciding where to send your next paper, the acceptance rate is one of the first numbers you look up. It is a rough measure of how select...
SIGIR 2026 Melbourne: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
SIGIR, the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, comes to Melbourne in 2026, running July 20 to 24 at the Melbourne ...
Best Hotels for STOC 2026 Salt Lake City
STOC 2026 - the 58th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing - runs June 22-26 in Salt Lake City, with TheoryFest programming continuing through June ...
Best Hotels for ICAPS 2026 Dublin
ICAPS 2026 runs June 27 to July 2 at the Clayton Hotel Burlington Road in Dublin — the A* ranked conference on automated planning and scheduling, w...
Best Hotels Near the Montreal Convention Centre for AAAI 2027
AAAI 2027 runs February 16-23 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal — one of the largest AI conferences on the calendar, A* ranked, drawing thousan...
ICDAR 2026 Vienna: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition heads to Vienna for 2026, with ICDAR running August 30 to September 4 at TU Wien ...
Should You Book the Conference Hotel Block?
Every conference registration email asks the same thing. There is a “hotel block” at a few partner hotels, the conference is pushing you to book it...
What Your Advisor Expects You to Get Out of a Conference
Most advisors never spell this out, so here it is plainly. Sending you to a conference costs real money from a grant, and that money has an opportu...
CVPR and SIGCOMM 2026 Denver: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
Two A* conferences. Same venue. Acceptances for both just dropped. CVPR 2026 runs June 3-7 at the Colorado Convention Center - computer vision and...
Best Hotels Near COEX for ICML 2026 Seoul
ICML 2026 acceptance notifications have just gone out, and if you’re heading to Seoul for the conference, the next thing on the list is booking acc...
Best Hotels Near Moscone Center San Francisco
Moscone Center is one of the busiest convention centers in North America, hosting everything from CVPR and CHI to RSA Conference and Salesforce Dre...
The First-Time Academic Conference Attendee Guide
Academic conferences can feel disorienting the first time. The program is dense, the venue is large, the attendees all seem to know each other, and...
Pittsburgh Conference Travel Guide: IROS 2026 and CHI 2027
Pittsburgh is having a significant moment on the academic conference calendar. The city hosts IROS 2026 — the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on ...
CVPR 2026 Denver: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition returns to Denver for 2026, running June 3-7 at the Colorado Convention Center i...
EMNLP 2026 Budapest: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing comes to Central Europe for 2026, with EMNLP 2026 taking place at Hungexpo Budap...
ICLR 2026 Rio de Janeiro: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The International Conference on Learning Representations heads to South America for 2026, with ICLR taking place at Riocentro Convention and Event ...
AAAI 2027 Montreal: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence returns to Montreal in February 2027, running February 16-23 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal (...
ICML 2026 Seoul: Travel Guide and Where to Stay
The International Conference on Machine Learning returns to Asia in 2026, landing at COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea,...
What CORE Rankings Actually Mean (and How to Use Them)
If you’re a researcher deciding where to submit, where to attend, or how to explain your CV to a hiring committee, you’ve probably encountered the ...
SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles: Where to Stay and How to Plan Your Trip
SIGGRAPH is one of those conferences that feels different from the rest. More than 15,000 researchers, artists, engineers, and developers descend o...
Research Trends to Watch in 2026
As the new year arrives, many fields are experiencing noticeable shifts in how research is conducted, funded, shared, and discussed. Conference cal...
November Conference Guide: Where AI, Data and Innovation Meet
November is one of the busiest months on the technology‑conference calendar. As the year winds down, some of the biggest events in artificial inte...
Where AI Meets the World: Upcoming ML Conferences 2025-2026
From large language models to generative AI and data‑mining systems, the pace of machine‑learning research continues to accelerate. If you are plan...
Understanding Acceptance Rates in Cybersecurity Conferences
Acceptance rates are often used as a rough barometer of how selective a conference is. For researchers in computer security and privacy, knowing t...
Deep Dive: CCS 2025 Cybersecurity Preview - Taipei, Taiwan (Oct 13-17)
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) is the premier venue for cutting-edge research in cybersecurity and privacy. In 2...
Deep Dive: Singapore’s Programming Conference Trio - ICFP, OOPSLA & SPLASH 2025
The ICFP, OOPSLA and SPLASH conferences are co-located this year in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands from October 12-18, 2025. That means one trip can...
October 2025 Tech Conferences & Travel Insights
October is a packed month for Computer Science conferences. Several flagship events will take place across Asia and Europe, covering topics from f...
Why Workshops Matter: Insights from ICDM 2025
Every big conference has a heart - a space where ideas are tested, networks are built and new research directions take shape. At the IEEE Internati...
AWS re:Invent on a Budget: Tips for Saving Money in Las Vegas
AWS re:Invent is one of those conferences that everybody in the cloud space wants to attend at least once. It is huge, exciting, and full of opport...
A Cybersecurity Student’s Guide to Choosing the Right Conference
If you are studying data science or cybersecurity you have probably wondered at some point whether it is better to spend your time at a big industr...
Best Hotels Near Suzhou International Expo Centre
Headed to EMNLP 2025 at the Suzhou International Expo Centre? Start with the venue overview here: Suzhou International Expo Centre and the conferen...
ACL vs EMNLP vs LREC: Which to attend?
ACL vs EMNLP vs LREC: Which NLP Conference Should You Attend? In the natural language processing community, three names consistently dominate the ...
RSA vs Black Hat vs DEF CON: What’s the Difference?
RSA vs Black Hat vs DEF CON: What’s the Difference? When people talk about cybersecurity conferences the three names that come up most often are R...
Welcome to Work + Wander
We started out as students hauling posters to academic conferences, stretching our budgets just to see a little more of the world. Now we’re at ind...