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improve critical resource-management decisions, considering in particular resource management for
data centres supporting cloud computing.

This year’s ‘Jules Verne’s corner’ addressed “The Future of Work and the Future of Privacy in the
Era of Artificial Intelligence”, exploring how jobs and privacy will be impacted by Machine Learning
and potential strategies to ensure the emergence of a human-centric future technology environment.
This dynamic special session was moderated by Ana Rosa Tymoschuk (Secretary of Science and
Technology, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Santa Fe, Argentina). Among the
panelists, Erica Hynes (Minister of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Santa Fe,
Argentina) and María Laura Spina (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Santa Fe, Argentina).

The Kaleidoscope 2018 programme included also three Tutorials. The first one on “Artificial
Intelligence: pros and cons” was organized and run by Maria de los Milagros Gutiérrez, Luciana
Ballejos and Maria Guadalupe Gramajo (CIDISI Research Center, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional,
Argentina). The second one on "Pattern recognition" was organized and run by Juan Pablo Martín
(Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional San Nicolás, Argentina). The third one on
“Can artificial intelligence give a mind to machines?” was organized and run by Hugo Leonardo
Rufiner (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina).

Selected papers from each year’s Kaleidoscope conference are considered for publication in a special-
feature section of IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. In addition, special issues of the
International Journal of Technology Marketing (IJTMKT), the International Journal of IT Standards
and Standardization Research (IJITSR) and the Journal of ICT Standardization may publish extended
versions of selected Kaleidoscope papers. Authors of outstanding Kaleidoscope 2018 papers have
also been invited to contribute to the work of the ITU Focus Group on ‘Machine Learning for Future
Networks including 5G’.

All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library. The Conference Proceedings from 2009 onwards can be downloaded free of charge from
http://itu-kaleidoscope.org.

I would like to thank our technical co-sponsors, supportive partners and Alessia Magliarditi and her
team at the ITU for their role in ensuring the continued success of the Kaleidoscope series of academic
conferences.

Rudy Omar Grether
General Chairman

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