ACS, the professional association for Australia’s technology sector, has announced plans to facilitate a new early stage tech investment fund.
The fund, announced by ACS President Yohan Ramasundara at the Reimagination Thought Leaders’ Summit in Melbourne, will kick off with a $5m investment from ACS with a call for other investors to join the scheme.
Mr Ramasundara […]
Sheryl Frame wins ICT Professional of the Year.
Commercialisation adviser, Sheryl Frame, has won the prestigious ICT Professional of the Year award at the 2019 ACS Digital Disruptor Awards.
Held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, the annual awards celebrate the achievements and talent of individual ICT professionals and group ICT skills, and service transformations across […]
The 7th ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data is the premier international database conference hosted in India by Division II of Computer Society of India. CODS-COMAD encompasses the areas of data analytics, machine learning and managing Big Data.
The winners of the 2019 IITPSA President’s Awards have been named at the annual awards ceremony in Johannesburg.
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has named Geekulcha COO Tiyani Nghonyama as the IT Personality of the Year and Alexander Forbes Group CIO Sandra La Bella as the Visionary CIO for 2019.
At the annual […]
ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity has published its Threat Landscape for 5G Networks report, assessing the threats related to the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications networks (5G).
This report complements the EU Member States report on EU-wide risk assessments on 5G security released in October 2019.
According to the report, ‘the technological changes introduced by 5G […]
An interdisciplinary jury of AI experts has named 10 future questions for AI research and development to GI, the German Society for Computer Science.
The publication of the 10 Future Questions is part of the project, #KI50: Artificial Intelligence in Germany – yesterday, today, tomorrow, which GI hopes will contribute to demystifying the topic of AI […]
ICDL Ireland has won back to back awards won for the second year in a row at this year’s European Best Practice awards for the launch of its new digital certificates for ICDL candidates.
Since June 2019 almost 50,000 students have been sent their digital certificate.
ICDL Ireland and Irish Computer Society CEO Jim Friars said, “I am […]
The eighth annual Lumen Prize, celebrating the very best in international digital art, took place at the Barbican Centre for Performing Arts in London on 24 October 2019. Presenting the BCS AI Award to winners, Dave Murray-Rust and Rocio von Jungenfeld for “Lichtsuchend” was Computer Arts Society chair, Dr Nick Lambert.
Dr Lambert said this year’s […]
ACM encourages young computer scientists and mathematicians from all over the world to apply for one of the 200 coveted spots to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), an annual event. The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great opportunity to personally meet the winners of the most prestigious prizes in their fields.
For […]
Paris will be the venue for a workshop on 2nd November 2019 exploring “Artificial Intelligence and Women Empowerment”.
This meeting will build upon work done by a number of partners concerning:
gender issues in teaching computing,
fair representation of women, and more broadly,
the impact of AI on the United Nations Sustainable development goals (https://www.k4all.org/event/ijcai19/).
These questions […]
