Congratulations to Kai Rannenberg (pictured) on being elected IFIP President-elect at the recent General Assembly (GA) hosted by the Portuguese Order of Engineers (an IFIP Member Society) in Lisbon.
Congratulations also to Joice Benza on being elected Vice-President while Francis Baud is the new IFIP Honorary Secretary-elect. Alastair Irons and Moira de Roche were both nominated […]
IFIP’s senior leaders will host a workshop on AI Governance as part of the inaugural UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) AIM Global Forum.
The IFIP workshop, featuring IFIP President Anthony Wong, IFIP General Secretary Anatolii Marushchak and IFIP TC3 Chair Don Passey, is entitled: AI Governance: from Education to Regulations.
It will take place on Tuesday […]
An eight-member research team from Australian and American institutions has been awarded the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 E FLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials.”
Using their algorithmic innovations on a powerful exascale computer, the team achieved a record-breaking performance of simulating more than one million electrons for […]
Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X will “at minimum” be the digital platforms affected by the Australian Government’s plan to ban Australians under 16 from social media accounts, according to Federal Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland.
The bill, announced earlier this month and first tabled in parliament last week, would allow exemptions for some messaging and online gaming […]
During a sunny week in early November, the Université Côte d’Azur, campus Sophia Antipolis, was the location for the 7th IFIP International Internet of Things (IoT) conference. Preceding the two days of the conference were two workshops and a tutorial: STAND4IoT on IoT standards and GRAAL4IoT on the DesiGn, VeRificAtion, and VALidation of IoT Systems.
It […]
The Interaction Design and International Development (IDID) Conference, held jointly with India HCI 2024, took place from 7-9 November 2024, in Mumbai, India. Organised by IFIP Working Group 13.8, this conference provided a platform for researchers and practitioners from around the globe to explore advancements in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with a focus on international development.
The […]
The first in a series of conferences dedicated to Artificial Intelligence for global security was held at Campus Cyber in Paris on November 19, 2024. Under the aegis of IFIP and organised by WG12.13 (AI for Global Security) the “AI4GS” event was sponsored by COMCYBER-MI, INRIA, SOPRA STERIA and AFIA.
After an introduction by IFIP President, […]
It’s been a busy month for TC12. In addition to the inaugural AI4GS conference in Paris (see previous article), TC12 Chair Eunika Mercier-Laurent has been involved in various other international events on behalf of IFIP.
On 4-5 November, Eunika was invited to participate in the panel “Living with AI: What to expect from the Future?” on […]
Papers are being sought for the 2025 International Conference on Information Resources Management, to be held in Bulgaria from 10-12 April 2025.
With the theme is “Sustainable IT in the Digital Age”, Conf-IRM is being hosted by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 10 […]
Teaching and learning practices across all educational levels are being significantly challenged by the disruptive power and widespread adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools. Educators are caught between the excitement of innovation and concerns about the genuine learning benefits, ethical implications, and the adequacy of current teaching methods and assessments.
In the field of Human-Computer Interaction […]
