IFIP TC3 is delighted to announce that Dr Pieter Hogenbirk, a current member and past chair of IFIP TC3 WG3.1, has been awarded the honour of Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
The Royal honour was bestowed for his outstanding contribution to innovation in education and for his support in introducing digital technology, STEM and internationalisation […]
“Communications of the ACM” Relaunched as Web-First Publication
ACM has relaunched Communications of the ACM (CACM), the organization’s flagship magazine, as a web-first publication. The web-first model allows CACM to publish articles more rapidly than before so that readers can keep abreast of the lightning-fast changes in the computing field. At the same time, researchers can […]
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami struck a large coastal area of the northern part of the main island of Japan, including the coast of the Iwate prefecture, on Friday 11 March 2011. From our experiences in helping part of the affected area by using IT for crisis response and disaster management, we established […]
IFIP Working Group 12.13 (AI4GS) will stage the first of a series of conferences dedicated to AI for Global Security in Paris, France on 19th November 2024.
There are some very specific challenges that AI presents in the context of national defence and security that need to be addressed.
They include, without being exclusive:
Transparency and Interpretability,
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Time is running out to submit papers for the 13th IFIP (IEEE approval pending) International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN 2024). To be held in Agadir, Morocco from 25-27 September 2024, the event has a deadline for paper submissions of 31 May 2024.
PEMWN is a scientific forum for […]
On 21 March 2024, three generations of Working Group 2.6 chairs met at the Università degli Studi di Milano to share insights and ideas. In attendance were the first WG2.6 chair, Professor Ernesto Damiani, his successor, Professor Paolo Ceravolo, and the current chair, Professor Robert Wrembel.
They discussed the past and future activities of the group as […]
SAC 2024, 8—12 April
The ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing gathers computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing applications. Technical tracks include “Artificial Intelligence for Education,” Lean and Agile Software Development,” “Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems,” “Decentralized Applications with Blockchain, DLT, and Crypto-Currencies,” and more. Keynote speakers are Xue (Steve) Liu (McGill University) […]
IFIP Working Group 12.13 (AI Global Security) has announced the first of a series of IFIP-supported events, to be held in Paris, France on 19th November 2024.
Billed as the only AI conference dedicated to global security, AI4GS will bring together international researchers and practitioners from across industry and academia to hear about the most advanced […]
Every UK technologist working in a high-stakes AI role should be licensed and meet independent ethical standards, according to the professional body for computing.
A public register of AI professionals, held to an ethical code of conduct, will make an ‘AI version’ of the Post Office Horizon scandal less likely, said BCS, the Chartered Institute for […]
ASIIN (The Accreditation Agency for Study Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics) hosted the European Informatics Conference 2023 on 14-15 December 2023 in Valencia, Spain. The focus of the conference was “The future of European Informatics Education – How to counter the skills shortage without compromising on quality?” Over the conference’s two-days, several […]