No Silver Bullet for Deep Fakes
The IFIP IP3 Global Industry Council (GIC) serves as the principal forum for employers and educators to engage with IP3 and shape the global ICT profession. Each month, they will feature relevant and insightful ideas in IFIP Insights. This month, GIC director Robin Raskin shares her recent WIPO talk on Deep Fakes in which […]
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Young Researchers: Apply for the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Young researchers are invited to apply for one of 200 coveted spots to participate in the 12th annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). The invitation is open to undergraduates, graduate students and recent PhDs of mathematics and computer science (and closely related fields).
The HLF offers all accepted young researchers […]
Watch the CIPS Podcast Interview with Dr Kelvin Man Fung Lo FCIPS, ISP, ITCP, the latest recipient of IFIP IP3’s 2024 David O’Leary Award.
In the podcast, Kelvin discusses his IT career and contributions, including his involvement in CIPS, the role of professionalism and ethics in IT, and he offers advice for future IT professionals
The ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. The Middleware conference seeks original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of […]
Professor Basie von Solms, who has been at the forefront of global cybersecurity research for 50 years, has been honoured with IFIP’s Isaac L. Auerbach Award.
It’s only the eighth time the award, named after IFIP’s founding president, Isaac L. Auerbach, has been given in the federation’s 64-year history.
“This award is the pinnacle of my long-standing […]
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient, Geoffrey Hinton has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics along with John J. Hopfield, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Hinton invented a method […]
At its recent General Assembly in Portugal, IFIP awarded six Fellowships to IFIP members who have served above and beyond the call of duty, distinguishing themselves in their diverse fields of expertise.
Congratulations to Philippe Palanque, Rossouw von Solms, Vincenzo Piuri, Simone Barbosa, Ryohei Nakatsu and Lukasz Stettner on achieving this highly prestigious status.
Philippe Palanque
IFIP Councillor […]
Congratulations to TC3 stalwarts, Christophe Reffay, Peter Micheuz and Nicholas Mavengere on receiving IFIP Service Awards for their contributions to the work of Technical Committee 3 (Computers in Education).
Christophe Reffay has been IFIP TC3’s national representative from France since 2017. He has been a stalwart and very active member, engaged in IFIP TC3 events […]
Thank you to the Ordem dos Engenheiros (Ordem) and Ordem’s President Fernando Almeida Santos and Portugal representative in IFIP Professor, Dr. Vasco Amaral, for hosting the IFIP General Assembly (GA) at the Ordem headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal on September 19-20 and the IFIP Technical Assembly, Member Society Assembly and IP3 meetings on September 18.
For two […]
On September 19th, 2024, during the IFIP General Assembly in Lisbon, Professor Raimundo Macêdo, chair of the IFIP Task Force on Climate Change and Digital Technologies, presented the highly anticipated findings of the task force. Established in December 2022 in response to the urgent global need for climate action, the task force spent nearly two […]
