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Thursday, 5 October 2023 SCORES conference: encouraging students to publish research works in the field of computer science

Today, October 5, 2023, the Student Computing Research Symposium SCORES is being held at UP FAMNIT.

Since 2014, the computer science departments of UP, UL and UM have jointly organized the conference, and each year one of the universities is chosen as the primary organizer. For this year's 9th edition, UP FAMNIT took over the baton, in cooperation with UP IAM and SDAMS. This year's event is co-organized also by ACM Slovenija. In the past, we were the main organizers of the event in 2016 and 2019.

SCORES is one of the few Slovenian conferences specifically intended for undergraduate and master's students, encouraging them to present and publish research works in the field of computer science. The (co)author of the paper on SCORES must be at least one undergraduate or master's student, which strengthens their cooperation and creativity.

At the beginning, the participants were greeted by Prof. Tomaž Pisanski, head of the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies at UP FAMNIT, who encouraged the participants to actively participate and offered his advice on how they can make the best use of such events to expand their horizons.

The invited lecturers of this year's conference are Marko Grgurovič and Marko Grobelnik, both successful former doctoral students of UP FAMNIT.

Marko Grgurovič is the general director of Triternion and the lead developer of Mordhau, the first Triternion game to reach the top of the sales chart on the Steam platform. They sold 500,000 copies in the first week of release. The title of his lecture at SCORES is »Research and Development in the Video Game Industry«.

Marko Grobelnik is an expert researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He jointly leads the AiLab at the IJS Institute. It cooperates with the most important European academic institutions and large industrial companies, such as Bloomberg, British Telecom, the European Commission, Microsoft Research, New York Times. The title of his lecture at SCORES is »Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models«.

In addition to the plenary sessions, the conference also included 13 lectures given by the conference participants.

We are very pleased that next year's conference will mark 10 years of cooperation between faculties, which strive to ensure that students develop the knowledge, skills and abilities required by the rapidly growing digital world.