ACM has elected Austrian Computer Science Professor Gabriele Kotsis as its new President, the first Continental European to hold this prestigious position.
A former President of the Austrian Computer Society and an Austrian delegate to UN-CSTD, Gabriele is a Computer Science professor at Johannes Kepler University and an ACM Distinguished Member. She has organized ACM conferences […]
ACM has established a special category of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize to recognize outstanding research achievements that use high performance computing (HPC) applications to understand the COVID-19 pandemic, including the understanding of its spread.
The ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research will be presented in 2020 and 2021.
Recipients will be […]
ACM’s Europe Technology Policy Committee has issued detailed principles and practices for the development and deployment of contact tracing technologies intended to track and arrest the spread of COVID-19. Europe TPC’s statement calls on governments that adopt such systems to choose “only those which, by technical and legal design: respect and protect the rights of […]
Four teams have been named winners of the Australia/New Zealand #Shockproof Defence Forces Hackathon.
Conducted and executed by the ACS over the weekend of 15-17 May, the virtual event bought together 500 innovators from both sides of the Tasman Sea.
Guided by 70 mentors with 40 pitch presentations, the hackathon aimed to find ways to harden Australian and New […]
Congratulations to Giuseppe Ateniese, Roberto Di Pietro , Luigi V. Mancini and Gene Tsudik, who have been unanimously named as the recipients of the 2020 Jean-Claude Laprie Award for their paper, “Scalable and Efficient Provable Data Possession”. This paper was presented at the 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Istanbul, […]
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) adoption is lagging in South Africa, and local organisations must move to organise their processes and start deploying RPA if they are to catch up with growing global progress towards hyper-automation.
This is according to Johan Steyn, chair of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA)’s AI and Robotics special […]
TC9’s newly reformed Working Group 9.3 on Intelligent Communities aims to stimulate debate and disseminate research on the complex connections between communities, intelligence and ICTs.
The group seeks to bring together many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between the community and intelligent technology. Intelligent communities and community informatics are closely related interdisciplinary fields aiming to empower communities […]
The 15th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management is seeking papers for the conference, which will now be co-located with IFIP SEC from September 20-23, 2020, in Maribor, Slovenia.
A joint activity of IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6 and Special Interest Group 9.2.2, the Summer School will be held as a virtual event […]
ACM has announced the recipients of three prestigious technical awards for 2019. These leaders were selected by their peers for making contributions that extend the boundaries of research, advance industry, and lay the foundation for technologies that transform society.
Paul Mockapetris is the recipient of the ACM Software System Award for development of the Domain Name […]
ACM has recognized three individuals with awards for their exemplary service to the computing field. Working in diverse areas, the 2019 award recipients were selected by their peers for longstanding efforts that have strengthened the community. This year’s ACM award recipients made seminal contributions in areas including textbooks and educational tools, bibliographic resources, and advancing […]
