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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 participated in three UNESCO panels at the recent WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) 2024 in Geneva:
The “WSIS Action Line C3: Guaranteeing the online space for all” panel discussion on the evolution of access to information in the past 20 years on 29 May 2024;
“The Future of AI in the […]
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 […]
