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28August, 2024

Like Music to Your Ears 

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by KNVI President, Wouter Bronsgeest
A blog by Wings of Pegasus shows what interventions we IT professionals have made possible in the music industry. A little software can firmly support a not-so-good singer. With this software, the voice can be jacked up just so that notes come cleanly on ‘pitch’. Pitch Correction. Great for recording perfection, […]

31July, 2024

IFIP President MCs ACS Gen AI and Indigenous Data Webinar

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IFIP President Anthony Wong acted as MC for a recent ACS (Australian Computer Society) event to recognise NAIDOC Week – a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

The webinar on “Generative AI and Indigenous Data: The Australian Perspective” shared insights regarding the intersection of emerging technologies and Indigenous data sovereignty, underscoring the need to integrate […]

31July, 2024

Avi Wigderson Delivers Turing Lecture at STOC 2024

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Avi Wigderson – recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award – delivered his Turing Award Lecture “Alan Turing: A TCS Role Model,” at STOC 2024: ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing.

In the lecture, Wigderson discussed the many ideas appearing in Turing’s groundbreaking papers and how they continue to evolve within the field of theorectical computer […]

31July, 2024

Last Chance to Nominate for the David O’Leary Award

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Nominations close today for the 2024 David O’Leary Award. 

The award, presented by IFIP IP3 (International Professional Practice Partnership) recognises an individual or organisation that has promoted and demonstrated Professionalism (Professional Practice), has worked as an Ethics Evangelist, and/or has made strides in fostering diversity among ICT practitioners. An individual or organisation can be nominated. 

The criteria […]

31July, 2024

IFIP WG 11.1 Announces New Leadership

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IFIP Working Group 11.1 – Information Security Management, has announced its new leadership team after completing its election of officers.

The new Chair is Murray E. Jennex: Gensler Professor of Computer Information Systems, Paul and Virginia Engler College of Business, West Texas A&M University USA and Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University USA, mjennex@wtamu.edu

The Vice Chair […]

31July, 2024

IFIP WG 10.4 Announces Jean-Claude Laprie Award Winners

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The Jean-Claude Laprie Award Committee has voted unanimously to select two papers or this year’s award.

Congratulations go to:

S. Garg, A. van Moorsel, K. Vaidyanathan and K. S. Trivedi for their paper entitled: “A methodology for detection and estimation of software aging”; and 
Y. Kim, R. Daly, J. Kim, C. Fallin, J. H. Lee, D. […]

31July, 2024

IFIP Backs Teacher Education and Support for Informatics and Computing in Schools

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IFIP is a member of the Informatics for All (I4All) coalition, which advocates for “the inclusion of informatics as a foundational discipline in schools across Europe”. IFIP is represented on the coalition I4All Steering Committee by two members of IFIP TC3. 

Having previously created an Informatics Reference Framework for School, I4All has been exploring how informatics […]

31July, 2024

DoCEIS 2024 Hailed a Success

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Congratulations to the team behind the 15th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS). The event, which ran from 3-5 July in Caparica, Portugal, was a great success!

This year’s conference focused on “Technological Innovation for Human-Centric Systems”. The goal was to discuss how PhD research can contribute to human-machine collaboration and societal […]

31July, 2024

ACM News

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Wen-mei Hwu Receives the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award

ACM and the IEEE Computer Society have named Wen-mei Hwu, a Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. 

Hwu is recognised for pioneering and foundational contributions to the design and adoption of multiple […]

31July, 2024

Counting Down to ICEC 2024

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The 23rd IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC) will be held in Manaus, the capital and centre of the Brazilian Amazon, from 30th September to 3rd October 2024.

Organised by IFIP TC14 – Entertainment Computing Technical Committee, ICEC 2024 will be hosted by the University of Amazon State – EST and co-located this year with […]