#IFIP60 - The Silent Revolution: Software as the Technological Fabric of Society

Beschreibung

Von Mai bis Dezember wird online das 60. Jubiläum derInternational Federation of Information Processing  (IFIP) gefeiert . Die 1960 gegründete internationale Organisation ist ein Dachverband für über 40 Informatik-Gesellschaften aus aller Welt, darunter auch die GI. Die Organisation hat über 3500 Einzelmitglieder und ermöglicht diesen Expert*innen einen fachlichen Austausch in über 100 Arbeitsgruppen.

Um das 60. Bestehen der Organisation virtuell zu feiern,  finden von August bis Dezember zehn virtuelle Panels zum Thema Future of Information Processing statt. Die Eventreihe wird von Mitgliedern der IFIP organisiert und gibt Expert*innen eine Bühne, über diverse Themen wie autonomes Fahren, Ethik in der Informatik und Cybersicherheit zu sprechen. Die Veranstaltungen sind frei zugänglich und Aufzeichnungen werden im Nachgang im Netz zur Verfügung gestellt.

Das erste Event der Reihe - The Silent Revolution: Software as the Technological Fabric of Society - findet am 30. August um 15 Uhr statt (Veranstaltungsspache ist Englisch). 

Software has been at the center of a silent revolution: from an ancillary role to computer hardware, it has emerged as the technological fabric of a globally interconnected society. This has been fueled by generally unnoticed, yet visionary under-the-hood advances in software theory and practice at academic and industrial institutions, fostered by IFIP’s provision of long-term technical fora. In this session thought leaders from academia and industry will discuss the role and impact of principled design, methodology and implementation of high-level programming languages in this silent revolution. They will reflect not only on the increasingly severe demands on software safety, security and productivity in today’s systems, but also on advancing languages and their algorithmic calculi, formal verification, automated analysis and synthesis as under-the-hood facilitators of tomorrow’s artificially intelligent, data-driven, robotic, interconnected-device-based, decentralized and parallel systems.

Participation is open to anyone and free of charge. You can register for the event here.

About the Future of Information Processing Event Series

The Event Series consists of ten events in total, featuring IFIP experts and high-level guests discussing questions arising at the intersection of technology and the information society. The events be online panels of 75 minutes each consisting of short speeches, a moderated discussion and a Q&A with the audience. Recordings of the events will be made available on YouTube. Information and registration links for the following events will be available shortly on the IFIP 60^th Jubilee Web Site.