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28November, 2024

IFIP to Host Workshop at UNIDO’s Inaugural AIM Global Forum

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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 […]

29October, 2024

Geoffrey Hinton Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

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ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient, Geoffrey Hinton has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics along with John J. Hopfield, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. 

Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Hinton invented a method […]

26September, 2024

IFIP Summer School a Rousing Success!

By |September 26th, 2024|2, 2024, Home Slider, IFIP|0 Comments

The 19th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management was held at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain from 10-13 September 2024. This annual event, co-organised by IFIP WG 11.6 (Identity Management) and IFIP WG9.6/11.7 (Information Technology: MisUse & the Law), provides an interdisciplinary platform to discuss the school’s topic from technical, legal, regulatory, […]

28August, 2024

Nominate Now for 2024 IITPSA President’s Awards 

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Nominations are closing soon for the prestigious Institute of Information Technology Professionals (IITPSA) President’s Awards, which this year includes a new award category for IITPSA members.

IITPSA President Senele Goba said this year’s theme of ‘Celebrating leaders in ethical digital transformation’ reinforces the IITPSA’s focus on ethical practices and the need for IT professionals to consider the impacts […]

31July, 2024

CrowdStrike Reveals Cause of Global IT Outage 

By |July 31st, 2024|2, Home Slider, IFIP|0 Comments

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 […]

26June, 2024

Nominate Now for the David O’Leary Award

By |June 26th, 2024|2, 2024, Home Slider, IFIP|0 Comments

Nominations for the David O’Leary Award will close on 9th August. The award, offered by IFIP IP3 (International Professional Practice Partnership), acknowledges an individual or organisation that has promoted and demonstrated Professionalism (Professional Practice), worked as an Ethics Evangelist, and/or made strides in fostering diversity among ICT practitioners.

The criteria includes: 

Professionalism – demonstrated commitment to […]

28May, 2024

IFIP President Applauds Ground-Breaking WIPO Treaty

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IFIP President Anthony Wong has congratulated WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and its leader Daren Tang on the first WIPO Treaty to address the interface between intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge with provisions specifically for Indigenous Peoples and communities.

“This is a great breakthrough after a journey of 25 years,” said Mr Wong, who is a technology […]