IFIP Names Anthony Wong New President-Elect
IFIP, the global apolitical organisation for Information & Communications Technologies and Sciences, has announced its new leadership team, electing Australia’s Anthony Wong as its new President and South African Moira de Roche as its Vice President.
Mr Wong will serve as IFIP President-elect for the next 12 months before taking over […]
“People should be the owners of their own health data” is the recommendation from a recent examination carried out by the Irish Platform for Patients Organisations, Science and Industry (IPPOSI)
During six sessions organised by IPPOSI, ‘jurors’ cross-examined the evidence and deliberated together to arrive at a “verdict” on who should have access to their health information and for what purposes. The […]
Just over six months ago, the European Commission issued the Communication “2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade,” a sweeping set of initiatives born of the Commission’s conviction that “digital policies must help nurture more democratic and inclusive societies, and ensure that all people in the EU can leverage the digital transformation […]
The 90 top tech and digital roles and their top five skills have been profiled in ACS’ Demand & Impacts on Tech & Digital Skills white paper.
By taking a clear look at required skills, businesses and tech and digital professionals will be able to shift business plans and career focus to encompass future technologies and steer capabilities […]
The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees at well-known ACM-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences. There are two rounds of competition at each conference hosting an SRC, which culminates in a Grand Finals competition. All […]
South Africa’s team for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI2021) has emerged with a bronze medal and one award after the global event.
IOI2021 is a prestigious international Informatics challenge held annually. While this year’s event was hosted by Singapore, participants competed virtually from their home countries due to COVID-related travel restrictions.
South Africa’s team of four […]
Congratulations to Letizia Jaccheri, vice president of TC14, for winning the 2021 Norwegian ODA Prize, which honours exceptional women who have made concrete contributions to increase diversity in the technology industry.
Winners of the award must be good ambassadors for ODA’s values of Inspiration, Bravery, Empowerment and Passion.
A Professor of the Department of Computer Science at […]
With just days remaining before the deadline, IFIP’s International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) is seeking final nominations for the prestigious David O’Leary Award.
After a year in hiatus, this coveted award is once again up for grabs. IP3 welcomes nominations of individuals or organisations who have demonstrated high levels of ethics and professionalism by:
promoting and […]
Chuchu Fan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the recipient of the 2020 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Formal Methods for Safe Autonomy: Data-Driven Verification, Synthesis, and Applications.” Fan’s dissertation makes foundational contributions to verification of embedded and cyber-physical systems, and demonstrates applicability of the developed verification technologies in industrial-scale systems. Her dissertation […]
Automated systems need greater accountability.
The Australian Government’s automated welfare debt recovery process, commonly known as ‘Robodebt’, was an unmitigated failure that exemplified the need to understand the ethics behind artificial intelligence decision making, according to a new report.
In his forward to The Ethics and Risks of AI Decision-Making report published by ACS, chair of the society’s AI Ethics Committee, Peter […]
