The International Federation for Information Processing
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a
multinational federation of professional and technical organizations
(or groups of such) concerned with information processing, and now has
43 full members.
The aims of IFIP are to promote Information Science and Technology by
- fostering international co-operation in the field of
Information Processing;
- stimulating research, development and application of
Information Processing in science and human activity;
- furthering the dissemination and exchange of information
about the subject;
- encouraging education in Information Processing.
A major event in the IFIP programme of activities is its Congress,
now held every two years. The technical work is done through
Technical Committees
and Working Groups. Each
Technical Committee
is composed of representatives of the IFIP member organizations (one
per organization), whereas Working Groups, under the supervision of a
Technical Committee,
consist of specialists in the field who are appointed as individuals
independent of nationality.
Please note that IFIP now has its own WWW home page, covering most of the organization.
Further information about IFIP and its activities may be obtained from
the IFIP Secretariat, Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria.
Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169
Email: ifip@ifip.or.at
Another source of information is the IFIP Newsletter, its editor is
Dr. Jack L. Rosenfeld,
IBM Journal of Research and Development,
T. J. Watson Research Center,
P. O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights,
NY 10598-0218, USA.
Tel: +1 914 945 2362 Fax: +1 914 945 2018
Email: rosenj@watson.ibm.com
Last modified: June 16, 1997
m.luebbecke@tu-bs.de