IFIP WG8.6 has announced plans to organise its upcoming conference on the theme, “Re-Imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation”.
To be held at the Indian Institute of Management in Tiruchirappalli, India from 17-19 December 2020, the conference will focus particularly on understanding the diffusion and adoption of emerging information technologies […]
A community of Australian startups has partnered up to establish the Envirotech Alliance, an initiative focused on creating scalable solutions to help protect the environment and tackle climate change.
Led by technology advocacy body TechSydney, the Envirotech Alliance is a partnership with SparkClub, a community of energy tech professionals and founders, Fishburners, Australia’s largest startup community, Launch […]
South Africa’s ICT sector is on par with global counterparts, but skills shortages remain the biggest challenge in 2020, say IITPSA Board members
South Africa’s ICT sector is highly innovative and entrepreneurial, presenting opportunities for significant job creation and export opportunities in the decade ahead. However, the ICT brain drain and slow ICT skills development threaten […]
IFIP leaders join with Bulgaria and the international scientific community to pay tribute to former IFIP President, Blagovest Sendov, who died last week at the age of 87 after a short illness. A Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician, Sendov served as President of IFIP from 1989 to 1992.
His funeral, at the National Assembly Building in […]
Albert Bifet is Full Professor at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and LTCI, Telecom Paris, IP-Paris. Previously he worked at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in Hong Kong, Yahoo Labs in Barcelona, University of Waikato and UPC BarcelonaTech.
Bifet is the co-author of a book on Machine Learning for Data Streams at MIT Press, and […]
The 25th Annual Meeting of the Intelligent User Interfaces Community is where the human-computer interaction community meets the AI community, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Scheduled keynote speakers are Brad A. Myers (Carnegie Mellon University), Margaret Burnett (Oregon State University), and […]
The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction attracts researchers from around the world to present and exchange ideas about the latest theories, technology, data, and videos furthering the state of the art in human-robot interaction. Keynote speakers are Ayanna Howard (Georgia Institute of Technology), Lola Cañamero (University of Hertfordshire), and Stephanie Dinkins, a transmedia […]
The ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing gathers computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing applications. Tracks will cover topics ranging from operating systems to intelligent robots to web technologies. Tutorials will cover graphical user interfaces for scriptless test automation, bioinformatics, low-power wireless technologies for IoT and more. Scheduled keynote speakers are Irwin King […]
ACM has launched Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV), a new interdisciplinary open access journal on the impact of technology on governance and public institutions. DGOV presents applied and empirical research from academics, practitioners, designers and technologists, using political, policy, social, computer and data science methodologies.
The target audience for the new journal includes academics, researchers, […]
Croatia has taken over the Presidency of the European Council since 1 January 2020 for a six month term.
The Croatian-led priorities document includes digital aspects under each of the four strategic pillars, with ethics in AI highlighted.
One goal of the strategy is to curate discussions on the legal and ethical implications of artificial intelligence as […]
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