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To coincide with the 26th Session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CTSD), IFIP is co-hosting a side event entitled: “The multi-faceted implications of AI”.
IFIP President Anthony Wong said the recent release of new AI-generation technologies such as ChatGPT, […]
IFIP President Anthony Wong has been busy in Europe in recent weeks, visiting the IFIP Secretariat in Laxenburg and attending events including the WSIS Forum in Geneva, as well as meetings with key stakeholders like ITU, UNCTAD and more.
Last week, Mr Wong and IFIP General Secretary Anatolii Marushchak met with the International Federation of Automatic […]
NCS Stages 2nd Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Summit
The 2nd Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Summit was recently held in Jos, Nigeria from 21-23 March 2023 with the theme: AI and Robotics for National Development.
Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) President, Adesina S. Sodiya, a Professor of Computer Science and Information Security, expressed certainty that AI and Robotics will ultimately reposition Nigeria’s major social and […]
IFIP is sad to announces the death of Charles Lindsey, who was a British computer scientist known for his involvement with the programming language ALGOL 68. He was a member of IFIP WG2.1 (Algorithmic Languages and Calculi) until 2010 and was involved in support of the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. He was […]
ACM has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardisation, and commercialisation of Ethernet.
Metcalfe is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas, Austin and a Research Affiliate in Computational Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & […]
Gillian Arnold FBCS has been announced as the new President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT with a call for the industry to focus on increasing public trust in tech through ethics and professionalism.
A past chair of BCS Women and managing director of tech recruitment and training company Tectre, Gillian said it was an […]
IFIP Plays Active Role at WSIS 2023
Once again, IFIP was a supporting partner at the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2023 from 13-17 March, presenting at several events. Recordings are available for all sessions, as detailed below.
On Monday 13 March, IP3 Chair Moira de Roche attended the attended Exhibition Inauguration, where she […]
Written by Anthony Wong, President of IFIP, CIO, Lawyer and Futurist
© Homepix Photography | Anthony Wong, President of IFIP, CIO, Lawyer and Futurist
In recent months, we have been awed by the public releases of new AI-generative technologies such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. These technologies are shifting AI mainstream exponentially — and taking the interactions between humans […]
Girls and women face many challenges, writes Jo Stewart-Rattray of ACS.
Jo Stewart-Rattray at the UN General Assembly in New York. Photo: Supplied
ACS Vice President of Communities, Jo Stewart-Rattray, recently attended the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York.
Here are her thoughts of the experience:
“As […]
ITU (International Telecommunications Union) will celebrate World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on Wednesday 17 May 2023 with the theme, ‘Empowering the least developed countries through information and communication technologies’.
ITU Secretary-General, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, said the event will commemorate the anniversary of the founding of ITU on 17 May 1865 while drawing attention to the […]