The 25th anniversary of the Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE), sponsored by IFIP Working Group 5.5, was celebrated with a landmark event in Albi, France from 28-30 October last year. The theme of “Navigating Unpredictability: Collaborative Networks in Non-linear Worlds” captured the spirit of innovation and adaptability that has defined PRO-VE over the past […]
The 2024 winner of the IFIP IP3 David O’Leary Award, Dr Man Fung Lo, recently attended the 2025 7th Asia Pacific Information Technology Conference (APIT), which was held from 10–12 January at The Education University of Hong Kong. First held in 2019, APIT aims to bring together academic scholars and industrial professionals to share knowledge […]
ACM ByteCast: Jennifer Chayes
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts ACM Fellow and ACM Distinguished Service Award recipient Jennifer Chayes, Dean of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she co-founded the Theory Group at Microsoft Research Redmond and later founded and led three interdisciplinary labs: […]
Geoffrey E. Hinton: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024, “Godfather of AI”
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 feature relevant and insightful ideas in IFIP Insights. This month, GIC Chairman Stephen Ibaraki shares […]
PIC 2025, 22—25 February 2025
Pingala Interactions in Computing will bring together some of the best minds in computing to network in an interactive and immersive atmosphere and promote scientific exchange of the highest quality. Speakers will include Past President of the Association for Computing Machinery Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), ACM Prize in Computing […]
Dear IFIP Members, Volunteers and Partners,
As 2024 comes to a close, I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all our members across five continents, our General Secretary and staff, and to our 6,000 volunteers from academia and industry, working in more than 100 Working Groups, Committees and Boards, and Task Forces. Your dedication, passion, […]
Boosting the digital capabilities of the Australian public sector is the aim of an agreement signed in Canberra last week between the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Commonwealth Digital Transformation Agency (DTA).
The Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations looks to boost the digital capabilities of the Australian Public Service (APS), diversify the nation’s […]
A former Vice Chair of Working Group 9.2 on Social Accountability, Dr Chris Zielinski has been inducted into the IPv6 Hall of Fame (http://www.ipv6halloffame.org/) as an early commentator on IPv6. His paper on the Social and Ethical Aspects of IPv6 (https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31168-8_19) appeared in 2006 in the IFIP Series publication entitled, “The Information Society: Emerging Landscapes”, […]
Photo caption: Neil at the UK National Teaching Awards where he received his National Teaching Fellowship. Photo supplied.
Working Group 9.2 (Social Accountability and Computing) has been reinvigorated under new leadership and is keen to hear from existing and potential new members with ideas about where it should best focus its efforts.
The new chair, Professor Neil […]
The majority of teachers (64%) in England are not using ChatGPT professionally, including 19% who are ‘not interested’ in using AI anytime in the future, according to a new study by BCS.
41% said their school did not have an agreed approach to AI, and a further 17% didn’t know if any policy had existed, according […]
