Dear IFIP Members, Volunteers and Partners,
As 2024 comes to a close, I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all our members across five continents, our General Secretary and staff, and to our 6,000 volunteers from academia and industry, working in more than 100 Working Groups, Committees and Boards, and Task Forces. Your dedication, passion, […]
Congratulations to Kai Rannenberg (pictured) on being elected IFIP President-elect at the recent General Assembly (GA) hosted by the Portuguese Order of Engineers (an IFIP Member Society) in Lisbon.
Congratulations also to Joice Benza on being elected Vice-President while Francis Baud is the new IFIP Honorary Secretary-elect. Alastair Irons and Moira de Roche were both nominated […]
IFIP’s senior leaders will host a workshop on AI Governance as part of the inaugural UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) AIM Global Forum.
The IFIP workshop, featuring IFIP President Anthony Wong, IFIP General Secretary Anatolii Marushchak and IFIP TC3 Chair Don Passey, is entitled: AI Governance: from Education to Regulations.
It will take place on Tuesday […]
Professor Basie von Solms, who has been at the forefront of global cybersecurity research for 50 years, has been honoured with IFIP’s Isaac L. Auerbach Award.
It’s only the eighth time the award, named after IFIP’s founding president, Isaac L. Auerbach, has been given in the federation’s 64-year history.
“This award is the pinnacle of my long-standing […]
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient, Geoffrey Hinton has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics along with John J. Hopfield, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Hinton invented a method […]
Congratulations to Dr Man Fung Lo, winner of IFIP IP3’s 2024 David O’Leary Award, which was presented during last week’s IFIP General Assembly.
Dr Lo holds many roles, including serving as Director for Technology and Infrastructure Development at the University of Hong Kong and a Senior Lecturer in its Faculty of Education.
Dr Lo joined the IFIP […]
The 19th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management was held at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain from 10-13 September 2024. This annual event, co-organised by IFIP WG 11.6 (Identity Management) and IFIP WG9.6/11.7 (Information Technology: MisUse & the Law), provides an interdisciplinary platform to discuss the school’s topic from technical, legal, regulatory, […]
ACM has established the ACM Luiz André Barroso Award to recognise researchers from historically underrepreesented communities who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.
To be presented annually, the award celebrates the late Luiz André Barroso’s strong support for equal opportunity for all in computing.
Luiz André Barroso was a Brazilian computer engineer who pioneered the design […]
Nominations are closing soon for the prestigious Institute of Information Technology Professionals (IITPSA) President’s Awards, which this year includes a new award category for IITPSA members.
IITPSA President Senele Goba said this year’s theme of ‘Celebrating leaders in ethical digital transformation’ reinforces the IITPSA’s focus on ethical practices and the need for IT professionals to consider the impacts […]
IT teams have been praised for their dedication during the global IT outage in an open letter from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
BCS CEO Rashik Parmar said the profession had ‘stood up to be counted’ by working around the clock on critical tasks ranging from ‘advising CEOs to rebooting laptops’.
The outage impacting 8.5 million […]
