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 […]
ACM has named 56 Distinguished Members for significant contributions. All of the 2024 inductees are longstanding ACM Members and were selected by their peers for work that has advanced computing, fostered innovation across various fields and improved computer science education.
All of the 2024 inductees are registered members of the prestigious scholarly society and were selected […]
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 […]
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) has new leadership after elections in December and January.
Evelina Slavcheva was elected President of BAS by the organisation’s IX General Assembly on 2nd December 2024. Follow up elections on 20th January 2025 resulted in DSc Evdokia Pasheva, Professor DSc Emmanuel Moutafov and Professor DSc Shtelian Shterionov all being elevated […]
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, […]
Boosting the digital capabilities of the Australian public sector is the aim of an agreement signed in Canberra last week between the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Commonwealth Digital Transformation Agency (DTA).
The Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations looks to boost the digital capabilities of the Australian Public Service (APS), diversify the nation’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
