- Australia’s national IFIP TC3 representative Sharon Singh won the Peter Doherty Excellence in STEM Education – Outstanding Teacher of STEM award for 2021. “I am very humbled by this recognition from the Queensland government through this prestigious award named after a Brisbane-born Nobel Prize-winning scientist I have admired for many years,” she said.
- Congratulations to IFIP’s 12 new Fellows, announced during the IFIP Jubilee in December. The new fellows are:
- Jean Vanderdonckt (Belgium)
- Ling X Li (US)
- Gerrit van der Veer (Netherlands)
- Guy Pujolle (France)
- Andreas Holzinger (Austria)
- Jacques Sakarovitch (France)
- Fredi Tröltzsch (Germany)
- Jan Pries-Heje (Denmark)
- Paola Inverardi (Italy)
- Sushil Jajodia (US)
- Ricardo Augusto Da Luz Reis (Brazil)
- Pierangela Samarati (Italy)
- IFIP held its fourth Internet of Things (IoT) conference in November with 15 papers being presented on topics like the use of IoT in agriculture, the importance of security, and IoT for smart health. Recordings of the keynote speakers are available at the IFIP IoT YouTube channel.
- IFIP is calling for papers for its World Conference on Computers in Education 2022. The hybrid conference will take place virtually and from Hiroshima on 20-24 August 2022. Submissions are welcome on topics about how technology empowers teaching and the training of ICT. For more information head to the conference website.
