2019

29November, 2019

BCS Presents AI Award for Artists

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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 […]

29November, 2019

Young Researchers: Apply for 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 20-25, 2020: Deadline February 14

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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 […]

29November, 2019

ACMMM Asia 2019, December 16 to 18, Beijing, China

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The first ACM Multimedia Asia conference is a newly established international conference to showcase the scientific achievements and industrial innovations in the multimedia field. The program includes technical sessions covering all aspects of multimedia in oral and poster presentations, tutorials, panels, demonstrations, workshops, doctoral symposium and grand challenge competitions, including a multimodal video recognition challenge.

29November, 2019

OCCE 2020 – IFIP TC3 Open Conference on Computers in Education

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The countdown is on for OCCE 2020, IFIP TC3’s Open Conference on Computers in Education. 

To be held from 6-8 January 2020 in Mumbai India, the conference has taken the theme of “Empowering Teaching for Digital Equity and Agency”. 

An impressive line-up of keynotes has been established, including: 

Davide Storti, a UNESCO Programme Specialist, within the Communication […]

29November, 2019

Developments in India Region Highlighted in Special Section of November Communications of the ACM

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The India region plays an important role in the global computing landscape with its highly trained manpower, software companies, and top universities that produce students who not only serve local needs, but move around the world and have global impact. CACM developed this special section to mirror all these facets, for its November issue. This section is free […]

29November, 2019

The Future of Digital Work: the Challenge of Inequality

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A reminder of the opportunity to submit papers for next year’s IFIP Joint Working Conference for WG 8.2 (Information Systems and Organization), WG 9.1 (ICT and Work) and WG 9.4 (Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries) in Hyderabad, India.

To run from 10-11 December, 2020, the Joint Working Conference will take the theme of “The […]

1November, 2019

IFIP General Assembly Elects New Officers

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IFIP held its major election for the year at the General Assembly (GA) in Kiev, Ukraine, earlier this month. A fruitful round of meetings included the elections of a VP, Treasurer-elect, Secretary and four Councillor representatives.

IFIP President, Mike Hinchey, said the federation has been working on a key strategy document, which will be launched in […]

1November, 2019

IFIP IP3 Presents Inaugural David O’Leary Award to Mary Cleary

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Deputy CEO of the Irish Computer Society (ICS), Mary Cleary has won the inaugural David O’Leary Award in recognition of her ethical and professional leadership over many years. 

The IFIP IP3 David O’Leary award from REDDS Capital was named in honour of a man who made an enormous contribution to the IFIP Global Industry Council and […]

1November, 2019

The Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality

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IFIP Joint Working Conference – December 10-11, 2020 

IFIP Working Groups 8.2 (Information Systems and Organization), 9.1 (ICT and Work) and 9.4 (Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries) will stage a Joint Working Conference in Hyderabad, India on 10-11 December 2020. 

The theme for the conference will be “The future of digital work: the challenge of […]

1November, 2019

Paris Workshop on AI and Women Empowerment

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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 […]