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IFIP IP3 Wants ICT Practitioners Working with Safety Critical Systems to be Certified The global professional body for the technology sector has called for minimum professional standards for ICT prac…

IP3 will again host a thematic workshop at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) when it convenes in Geneva from 8-12 April this year. The WSIS Forum is a global multi-stakeholder platfo…

IP3 is working on plans for an annual award to recognise professionalism and ethics at the highest level. The David O’Leary Award, named in honour of a man who made an enormous contribution to the IF…

As the world races into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital skills shortages have become a major challenge. Fortunately, the ICT sector that so desperately needs high-end skills has also built …

IFIP Technical Committee 9 (TC9), which focuses on ICT and Society, has announced plans for a committee meeting in Stockholm on Friday 14th June at Stockholm University. TC9 Chair, Professor David Kr…

The French Government has slapped Google with a 50 million Euro fine for breaching Europe’s tough new data protection rules. In imposing the fine, France’s top data-privacy agency, the Commission Nat…

The Symposium on 50 Years of Complexity Theory: A Celebration of the Work of Stephen Cook will be held at the Fields Institute in Toronto. This symposium celebrates 50 years of NP-completeness and th…

This year’s ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction will include workshops on crowdsourcing creativity; HCI and aging; human-centered machine learning; social robots; and more. Keynoting will be…

The 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing gathers computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing applications. Tracks will cover topics ranging from Robotics and Multi-a…

ACM and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics are hosting the ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science. This full-day event will bring together distinguished speakers an…

The 2019 ACM Europe Summer School on HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications will take place in Barcelona 17-24 July and will be hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BS…

The third AI for Good Global Summit will take place from 28 to 31 May 2019 at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland. Organized by ITU in partnership with XPRIZE Fou…

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a software category that provides an easy-to-control ‘digital workforce’ of increasingly intelligent software robots that informs, augments, supports and assists p…

Recently, the news about our planet's health hasn't been great. Studies have pointed out that we may be headed toward a "hothouse" Earth scenario — a catastrophic tipping point that could cause seas …