On March 31st, IEEE CAS, with sponsorship from IFIP WG 10.5 and Synopsys, staged an interesting panel about Women in Engineering.
The panel comprised:
Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland – USA,
Maria José Escobar, Associate Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María – Chile and Regional […]
To celebrate its 60th Anniversary, IFIP is collaborating with its Member Societies, Technical Committees, Working Groups and Partner organisations to stage a series of events around the world.
The events, which range from one-hour workshops to multi-day conferences, will be held under the banner of “Unimagined Futures”, which is also the title of IFIP’s 60th Anniversary […]
IFIP IP3 (International Professional Practice Partnership) kicked off its involvement in the 2021 WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) Forum this month with a moderated panel discussion on professionalism in cybersecurity on 13th April 2021.
The event, entitled: Building Resilience with a Professional Workforce”, was moderated by IP3 Chair, Moira de Roche, with the panel […]
IITPSA Announces 2020’s Leading Lights at Virtual President’s Awards Event
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) capped an unusual year and its first ever virtual President’s Awards ceremony by naming joint winners of the Visionary CIO of the Year Award this month.
Dr Stanley Mpofu, CIO of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Nomthi […]
Harbour City Labs, the ACS growth incubator based at Sydney’s Barangaroo district, celebrated its third anniversary on this month.
The Sydney lab, the second in the ACS network of growth incubators, was established in 2018 to demonstrate sustainable Australian technology businesses and entrepreneurs can be successful while remaining onshore.
“The initial focus was to support early stage […]
View Screening and Panel Discussion on Coded Bias Film
ACM’s Technology Policy Council and Diversity and Inclusion Council sponsored a free screening and public discussion of the film “Coded Bias” and how those in computer science fields can address issues of algorithmic fairness. The discussion was held on 29 March 2021.
View a recording of the discussion.
ACM […]
The IFIP TC3 World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE 2022) is the latest four-yearly conference of IFIP’s Technical Committee on Education (TC3), which will be held in Hiroshima, Japan as a hybrid event (with both face-to-face and online participation) from August 20th to 24th, 2022.
The overall focus of the IFIP TC3 WCCE 2022 conference […]
CIPS (Canadian Information Procession Society) has announced that Greg Lane, FCIPS, took the reins as its new CEO on April 1st, 2021.
Greg will be a huge asset to CIPS with his vast industry knowledge, experience, and connections, along with his leadership, marketing, and communication talents.
Greg Lane is a Past Chair of the CIPS National Board […]
The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) in collaboration with the CyberMouflons Hacking Community successfully organized the Cyprus Cyber Security Competition (CCSC 2021).
The aim of the competition, which took place online from 1 to 18 April 2021, was to find Cyprus’s young talents in the field of cyber security. Two hundred and twenty young people aged 14 and […]
IFIP Working Group 8.3 on Decision Support is staging a virtual seminar on Friday 7th May on the topic: AI for Decision Intelligence – Using AI/ML to Address Real Decision Problems.
Hosted by Cork Business School, the two-hour event features a presentation by Dr Arkady Zaslavsky, a Professor of Distributed Systems & Security at Deakin University, […]
