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 […]
IFIP is involved in a record seven events at this week’s WSIS (World Summit for the Information Society) Forum in Geneva.
IFIP has contributed to WSIS over many years, gaining formal recognition as a “Supporting Partner”. WSIS is co-organised by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, UNCTAD and the Swiss Confederation.
On Monday, IFIP President Anthony Wong welcomed the ITU […]
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 […]
ACM has named Avi Wigderson as recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational contributions to the theory of computation, including reshaping our understanding of the role of randomness in computation, and for his decades of intellectual leadership in theoretical computer science.
Wigderson is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics […]
Thank you to the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) and CIPS Chair of the National Board Trevor McDonald for hosting the IFIP Board in Toronto, Canada on 26-27 March 2024.
For two days, IFIP Board Members discussed a wide range of strategic points including:
IFIP Strategy
Future income ideas
IP3 activities
Standing and Domain Committees reports
IFIP Task Force on Digital […]
