ACM has named Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich the recipient of the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing for fundamental contributions to high-performance computing and the ongoing AI revolution. Hoefler developed many of the core capabilities of modern supercomputers and defined key aspects of the algorithms for distributing AI models on them.
Hoefler is a Professor of […]
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ACM has named Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed important algorithms for reinforcement learning—one of the most important approaches for creating intelligent systems.
Barto is […]
The Australian Government and a number of the world’s biggest tech firms have backed Australia’s first independent tech policy think tank.
The Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi) was officially unveiled last month with a mission to “shape technology for the benefit of humanity” through independent research, education, public commentary and community building.
The independent not-for-profit has been […]
Do you know an IFIP colleague who deserves greater recognition? If so, consider nominating them for an IFIP Award.
There are currently three awards open for nomination:
Silver Core 2025
Service Award 2025
IFIP Fellow 2025
The deadline to submit for the Silver Core 2025 and Service Award 2025 is 15 July 2025.
The deadline to submit for IFIP […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Dr Man Fung Lo, winner of IFIP IP3’s 2024 David O’Leary Award, which was presented during last week’s IFIP General Assembly.
Dr Lo holds many roles, including serving as Director for Technology and Infrastructure Development at the University of Hong Kong and a Senior Lecturer in its Faculty of Education.
Dr Lo joined the IFIP […]
ACM has established the ACM Luiz André Barroso Award to recognise researchers from historically underrepreesented communities who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.
To be presented annually, the award celebrates the late Luiz André Barroso’s strong support for equal opportunity for all in computing.
Luiz André Barroso was a Brazilian computer engineer who pioneered the design […]
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 […]
