The Summer Doctoral Academy is a joint venture of the LACCIR Virtual Institute, the Computer Science Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), the Department of Computer Science at the Universidad de Chile (UCH), the Department of Informatics and Applied Cognitive Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen (DUE), Germany, the Computer Science Institute at the University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West (UASRW), Germany, the University of Tokushima, Japan (UTK), and the GITI Institute at the Waseda University (UWA), Japan. www.laccir.org www.laccir.org/sda