At its latest meeting, the IFIP General Assembly (GA) has named five new Fellows along with two Silver Core winners and five recipients of the IFIP Service Award.
IFIP Fellowships are conferred on a current or past member of an IFIP body (such as a Technical Committee, Working Group, IP3 or a Domain Committee etc) who […]
IFIP IP3 has announced Don Gotternbarn as the latest recipient of the David O’Leary Award. The award acknowledges an individual or organisation that has promoted and demonstrated Professionalism (Professional Practice), has worked as an Ethics Evangelist, and/or has made strides in fostering diversity among ICT practitioners.
Don was Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) […]
Just over six months ago, the European Commission issued the Communication “2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade,” a sweeping set of initiatives born of the Commission’s conviction that “digital policies must help nurture more democratic and inclusive societies, and ensure that all people in the EU can leverage the digital transformation […]
Discover the latest ACM Selects
ACM Selects are themed shortlists curated by subject matter experts for both serious and emerging computing professionals, with the goal of providing new ways to discover relevant resources, either through ACM or authenticated by ACM-affiliated specialists. The latest Select, “Spotlight on Computing in Bangladesh” covers the rapidly advancing ICT landscape in […]
A New Way to Experience the Breadth and Variety of ACM Content
ACM Focus consists of a set of AI-curated custom feeds by subject, each serving up a focused set of the latest relevant ACM content from papers to blog posts to proceedings to tweets to videos and more.
These high-level subject based feeds of original and […]
KDD 2021, August 14 to 18 (online)
The SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. Keynote speakers include Janil Puthucheary (Member of Parliament, UK), Sharon Glotzer (University of Michigan), Claire Tomlin (University of California, Berkeley) and Vincent Conitzer (Duke […]
The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees at well-known ACM-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences. There are two rounds of competition at each conference hosting an SRC, which culminates in a Grand Finals competition. All […]
Chuchu Fan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the recipient of the 2020 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Formal Methods for Safe Autonomy: Data-Driven Verification, Synthesis, and Applications.” Fan’s dissertation makes foundational contributions to verification of embedded and cyber-physical systems, and demonstrates applicability of the developed verification technologies in industrial-scale systems. Her dissertation […]
ACM has named Andrew McGettrick, a professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK, the recipient of the 2020 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for his scholarship and tireless volunteer work and contributions, which have fundamentally improved rigorous computer science as a field of professional practice and as an academic pursuit. His work in curricula, standards […]
International Task Force Releases IS 2020 Curriculum
A joint task force of ACM and the Association for Information Systems (AIS) recently released the report IS2020: Competency Model for Undergraduate Programs in Information Systems. Traditionally, the study of Information Systems (IS) was related to the use of technology for business. While Information Systems still focuses on the practical […]
