Prospective SAC 2016

31st ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC 2016) will be held in Pisa (Italy) in 4th-8th April, 2016.

This symposium will be hosted the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna University.

About Pisa (Italy)

According to its tradition as a former Maritime Republic, Pisa celebrates the New Year twice – not only on the 1st of January along with the rest of the world, but also on the 25th of March.

The Pisans have not forgotten their traditions, and each year they mark the beginning of the year as was their custom between the tenth century and 1749, when New Year's Day coincided with the Annunciation, nine months before Christmas (Anno Pisano ab Incarnatione Domini).

Today, just like then, the beginning of the Pisan Year is marked by a sort of solar clock, a physical phenomenon that is as simple as it is spectacular and intriguing: at midday sharp a ray of sunlight penetrates the Duomo through a round nave window, landing on a marble egg on a shelf surmounting a column next to the pulpit of Giovanni Pisano, on the opposite side.