The 7th IFIP Internet of Things (IoT) Conference will take place in Nice, France from 6-8 November this year. IFIP’s annual event dedicated to IoT research, innovations and applications, this event will continue to emphasise the multidisciplinary nature of the IoT world.
This year’s program will include three high profile keynote speakers:
Professor Erol Gelenbe, Polish […]
2024 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
Ke Fan of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Daniel Nichols of the University of Maryland are the recipients of the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships.
The fellowships honor exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus is high-performance computing (HPC) applications, networking, storage […]
By Torkil Clemmensen, IFIP Select
The journal IFIP Select publishes “Mission Statements” for already published IFIP research papers that “best” transfer relevant research knowledge to a member of a National Computer Society, and which supports UN activities and goals. Since IFIP represents IT Societies from over 38 countries/regions with a total membership of over half a […]
TAPIA 2024, 18—20 September
The ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing features panels, workshops, poster sessions, networking opportunities and a career fair. Tapia will bring together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities. This year’s topics include “Challenges and Myths in Recruiting/Obtaining Employment at National Laboratories”, […]
by KNVI President, Wouter Bronsgeest
A blog by Wings of Pegasus shows what interventions we IT professionals have made possible in the music industry. A little software can firmly support a not-so-good singer. With this software, the voice can be jacked up just so that notes come cleanly on ‘pitch’. Pitch Correction. Great for recording perfection, […]
IT teams have been praised for their dedication during the global IT outage in an open letter from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
BCS CEO Rashik Parmar said the profession had ‘stood up to be counted’ by working around the clock on critical tasks ranging from ‘advising CEOs to rebooting laptops’.
The outage impacting 8.5 million […]
A bug in a program used to test software updates was the cause of Friday’s mass global IT outage, cyber security company CrowdStrike has said in its first review of the incident, offering $US10 Uber Eats gift cards to “teammates and partners” who assisted the US firm.
The company – whose software update crashed around 8.5 million […]
IFIP President Anthony Wong acted as MC for a recent ACS (Australian Computer Society) event to recognise NAIDOC Week – a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The webinar on “Generative AI and Indigenous Data: The Australian Perspective” shared insights regarding the intersection of emerging technologies and Indigenous data sovereignty, underscoring the need to integrate […]
Avi Wigderson – recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award – delivered his Turing Award Lecture “Alan Turing: A TCS Role Model,” at STOC 2024: ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing.
In the lecture, Wigderson discussed the many ideas appearing in Turing’s groundbreaking papers and how they continue to evolve within the field of theorectical computer […]
Nominations close today for the 2024 David O’Leary Award.
The award, presented by IFIP IP3 (International Professional Practice Partnership) recognises an individual or organisation that has promoted and demonstrated Professionalism (Professional Practice), has worked as an Ethics Evangelist, and/or has made strides in fostering diversity among ICT practitioners. An individual or organisation can be nominated.
The criteria […]
