Embrace – a new specialist group for racial diversity was launched this month by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT to support IT professionals from ethnic minorities and to advise BCS on diversity matters.
Nzube Ufodike, the new group’s chair, said: “We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Embrace and are looking forward […]
1st Act of AI Festival Montpellier
Due to COVID modifications, the initial AI Forum France could not take its planned form (AI Austria Forum). Instead, IFIP TC12 decided to have several events, beginning with a Round Table on September 23rd 2020.
The event, which attracted over 100 people and was conducted under COVID-safe conditions, was hosted […]
Leading international experts in the area of digital transformation and innovation gathered online and in person in Novi Sad, Serbia from 30 August to 3 September for APMS2020, the flagship event of IFIP WG5.7.
This year was the 41st iteration of the event and the first time it occurred in a hybrid mode, with a mix […]
Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) and Emirates Talent Association (ETA) has celebrated a new cohort of graduates from its ‘Emirati Programmer – Summer 2020’.
The 2020 edition of ‘Emirati Programmer’ comprised two offerings: Cloud Computing and IoT in collaboration with the leading cloud computing provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the 3D Printing Program in […]
Vivek Sarkar Named 2020 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient
ACM and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) have named Vivek Sarkar of Georgia Institute of Technology as the recipient of the 2020 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. Sarkar was recognised for foundational technical contributions to the area of programmability and productivity in parallel computing, as well as […]
At the virtual IFIP General Assembly (GA) held on 24th September 2020, the GA enthusiastically adopted a new IFIP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
The Code has been adapted from the ACM Code of Ethics published previously, which itself had been through many years of consultation and development with members of IFIP, IEEE and other […]
The students of the Master program in Human-Computer Interaction of Greece’s University of Patras worked in groups to design location-based experiences for the city of Patras, inspired to a large extent by the current health crisis.
Their work, produced during the last academic semester (March to June 2020), took place during the COVID-19 lockdown and involved […]
The Internet Workshop Anti-Covid took place over two days from 22 to 23 June 2020. The goal was to initiate and integrate activities aiming at overcoming the problems concerning Covid-19 by using ICT tools and methods.
The scope was fairly comprehensive and comprised the following topics:
Computing support for understanding Covid-19 and its implications (modelling and […]
IFIP WG 8.5 (ICT & Public Administration) joined with the Digital Government Society (DGS) this month to stage a virtual annual IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2020 conference.
Conducted from 31 August to 2nd September, the event represented a merger between IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP Electronic Participation (ePart) and the Conference for E-Democracy and […]
