Creating a portable vaccine proof by adapting an app can be achieved technically – but comes with ethical and data privacy challenges, according to BCS, The UK’s Chartered Institute for IT.
The professional body has warned a situation may result where going to leisure venues around the UK could demand as much ‘linked data’ from us […]
Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient, has been named the laureate for North America in the 2021 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Awards.
The award celebrates her groundbreaking work in cryptography, which has enabled secure communication and verification […]
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has elected John Higgins as its new President and Mayank Prakash as Deputy President at its recent AGM.
After his election, Mr Higgins urged government and business to “put IT to work to drive this recovery”.
“To recover and build back better from this terrible pandemic, we really need to double down […]
Offers a part Scholarship for Women to Upskills
The Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia (IAPA) this year celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 with a part-scholarship to study analytics at the Kaplan Business School.
Annette Slunjski, Managing Director, IAPA said Australian businesses can improve their competitive position by embracing diversity, especially in analytics, data science and […]
Download the First of Two IFIP Jubilee Books
The first of two planned Jubilee Books to celebrate IFIP’s 60th Anniversary is now available for free download.
The title “Unimagined Futures: ICT Opportunities and Challenges” reflects the fact there were many futures in the past that happened without our having envisaged them, and there are multiple futures […]
The Latin American Center for Computing Studies (CLEI) is seeking paper submissions for CLEI 2021, the Latin American Computing Conference, which will be held from 25-29 October 2021.
CLEI, a proud member of IFIP, has been organising the Latin American Computing Conference since 1974. The conference is a meeting point for hundreds of researchers, professionals, teachers […]
15th Human Choice and Computers Conference (HCC) to explore “Human Choice and Digital by Default: Autonomy vs Digital Determination”
Since the advent of COVID-19, whole sectors of the economy in many countries, or at least those that can, have been working remotely, from home. This has brought a whole new meaning to the maxim ‘digital by […]
Computer History Museum Honors Tech Legend Raj Reddy
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University is one of the Computer History Museum’s 2021 Fellow Award honorees.
Reddy is the Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. The Computer History Museum’s Fellow Awards recognize extraordinary individuals for […]
Technical Committee 9 (TC9), which is dedicated to supporting research into ICT and Society, is preparing a handbook for current and future researchers. The TC’s active working groups will prepare histories of their various Working Group’s origins, summaries of their activities and publications, and an overview of their research opportunities and challenges.
TC9 would like to […]
IFIP Working Group 10.4 (Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance) staged a virtual workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) from 29 Jan-1 Feb 2021, attracting over 60 attendees from 18 time zones spanning North America, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Taiwan.
The vision of the IVDS project is to realise highly dependable and secure operation […]
