Technical Committees
IFIP's activities are centered on its fourteen Technical Committees, which are divided into working groups. The working groups (with names like "WG 2.4 Software Implementation Technology") organize conferences, run workshops, and circulate technical papers.
- TC 1: Foundations of Computer Science
- TC 2: Software:Theory and Practice
- TC 3: Education
- TC 5: Information Technology Applications
- TC 6: Communication Systems
- TC 7: System Modeling and Optimization
- TC 8: Information Systems
- TC 9: Relationship between Computers and Society
- TC 10: Computer Systems Technology
- TC 11: Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems
- TC 12: Artificial Intelligence
- TC 13: Human-Computer Interaction
- TC 14: Entertainment Computing
The current IFIP TC1 was founded in 1997. There had been an earlier TC1, Technical Committee 1 on Terminology, which was the earliest Technical Committee of IFIP. Formed in 1961, it produced a multilingual dictionary of information-processing terminology. It was later disbanded.
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