• IFIP launced its new website in May — a redesigned, user-focused platform which will deliver an enhanced digital experience for our global community of ICT researchers, professionals and partners. The organisation said the new website reflected its ongoing commitment to innovation, accessibility, and community engagement. It said that over the years, ifip.org has evolved into a comprehensive hub of information, along the way becoming increasingly complex to navigate, and the new ifip.org has been designed from the ground up to offer a cleaner structure, better performance and easier navigation to improve the user experience.

  • IFIP TC3 has created a new Working Group – WG3.9 (‘Artificial Intelligence in Education’). According to TC3 Chair, Professor Don Passey, “this topic is clearly of wide contemporary interest and is a topic that’s unlikely to disappear from either development or interest within the next 10 or more years. With growing interest and concern in this topic from existing members of IFIP TC3, we are delighted that IFIP has accepted that IFIP TC3 can establish this topic as a new WG.” WG3.9 will be chaired by Dr Mary Webb, who has kindly agreed to take on board this important new officer post. Webb is already known for her involvement in this field, having run a panel on AI in education at the last IFIP TC3 conference held in Bournemouth, UK, in February 2024. The new WG has wide aims and scope, that range across educational sectors and educational practices. WG3.9 aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and dissemination through organised events and publication, documenting, analysing, and learning from the varied approaches to AI integration across different educational systems. Crucially, the WG is concerned with developing frameworks and methodologies that can usefully evaluate the effectiveness, equity, and ethical implications of AI applications used across diverse educational contexts.

  • IFIP TC11 announced that the 2025 Kristian Beckman Award has been awarded to Professor Jaideep Vaidya. The presentation was made during the 40th anniversary International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC 2025) in Maribor, Slovenia in late May. Vaidya also presented a keynote on “AI and Conceptions of Privacy”. A Distinguished Professor of Computer Information Systems at Rutgers University, the Director of the Rutgers Institute for Data Science, Learning and Applications, Vaidya conducts research at the intersection of privacy, security, data mining, data management and artificial intelligence. He has published over 200 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has received best paper awards from the premier conferences in data mining, databases, digital government, security, and informatics.

  • The Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing has recognised two highly influential papers in the area of Dependable Computing. The research teams honoured by the 2025 award were: Song Liu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Thomas Moscibroda, and Benjamin G. Zorn. 2011 for their paper – “Flikker: saving DRAM refresh-power through critical data partitioning”, and Patrick Eugster, Rachid Guerraoui, S. B. Handurukande, Petr Kouznetsov and Anne-Marie Kermarrec for their paper – “Lightweight Probabilistic Broadcast”.