ACS (Australian Computer Society) has revamped its Professional Standards Scheme in a move that will see all ACS Certified Professional (CP) members receive professional recognition from Australian federal, state and territory governments.
The new ACS Professional Standards Scheme was recently approved by Australia’s Professional Standards Council (PSC).
The scheme will also cap liability for ICT professional services […]
ACM has recognised four individuals with awards for their exemplary service to the computing field. Working in diverse areas, the 2018 award recipients were selected by their peers for longstanding efforts that have significantly shaped the role of computing in society. This year’s ACM award recipients made seminal contributions in textbooks and online education, education […]
ACM and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics are hosting the ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science in San Francisco on June 15, 2019.
This full-day event will bring together distinguished speakers and panelists addressing topics such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, fairness, and ethics, in addition to discussions about the future of data science […]
The 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering will feature the latest in research, education, open source projects, testing, analysis, and more. Keynoters are Paul Clements, VP of Customer Success at BigLever Software; Margaret-Anne Storey, Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Matrix Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Victoria; and Joelle Pineau, […]
The 2019 AI for Good Global Summit will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from May 28-31, 2019.
The goals of the Summit are to connect AI innovators with problem owners, to identify practical applications of AI to accelerate progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and to ensure trusted, safe and inclusive development of AI technologies and equitable access […]
The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) has announced that it now recognises a Professional Engineer, Japan (P.E. Jp) where the technical discipline is Information Engineering (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems & Data Engineering, Information Network Engineering). The qualification will be registered as a Certified IT Professional (CITP) accredited by IP3.
If the registered P.E. […]
The IFIP Domain Committee on the Internet of Things has released its final position paper entitled “IoT: do we have a choice?”.
The paper explores various aspects and dimensions of the IoT, including technical issues, environmental concerns, socio-organisational issues, personal and societal issues, security and privacy issues, legal and ethical concerns and professionalism/education issues.
It also […]
This month saw the election of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the ITPE Digital Competence Expert Group.
Rocco Defina of Oxys Consulting was elected Chair, succeeding Mary Cleary (who left to take the Chair of CEN Technical Committee 428). The Vice-Chair position of ITPE Digital Competence Expert Group was taken by Floor Scheffer of Tata […]
The deadline is fast approaching for potential speakers at this year’s 6th International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS 2019) to submit papers for inclusion. The main scientific event of IFIP Working Group 10.2 – Embedded Systems, the Symposium will be held from 9-11 September 2019 in Friedrichshafen (Germany). Paper submissions are due by 5th May.
Over […]
The Latin American Center for Computing Studies (CLEI) has announced that the 2019 Latin American Computing Conference will be held in Panama from 30 September – 3 October. An annual event organised by CLEI since 1974, the conference rotates amongst Latin American countries and was last held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The conference brings together hundreds […]
