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IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

I F I PInternational Federation for Information Processing

Specialist Group SG16 on Entertainment Computing

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Aims

IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO.

Its basic aims are to promote information in science and technology by fostering international cooperation, by stimulating research, development and the applications of information processing in science and human activity, by furthering the dissemination and exchange of information and by encouraging education in information processing.

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AffiliationsIFIP holds a Formal Consultative status with UNESCO and maintains formal relations with other agencies of the UN System

During WCC 2002 a joint UNESCO - IFIP World Computer Congress 2002 Declaration on Youth and ICTs was discussed and accepted

IFIP is a Scientific Associate with the International Union for Science and maintains contacts with the International Federation of Automatic Control, the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, the International Federation of Operational Research Societies and the International Measurement Confederation.

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In 2004:

47 Full Members, 3 Corresponding Members 11 Affiliated International Organizations

Membership

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IFIP MembershipANDORRA ARGENTINA ARMENIA AUSTRALIAAUSTRIA BELGIUM BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADACHILE CHINA CROATIACYPRUS CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK EGYPTFINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECEHUNGARY INDIA IRELAND ISRAELITALY JAPAN KOREA LITHUANIAMALAYSIA NETHERLANDS NORWAY OMAN POLANDPORTUGAL RUSSIA SINGAPORE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAINSWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIA THAILANDUNITED KINGDOM USA based ACM USA based IEEE CS ZIMBABWE CLEI ICELAND NEW ZEALAND CEPIS EUROMICROFACE IAPR IASC ICCC IJCAII IMIA

INFORMS SEARCC VLDB

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Organization•A General Assembly of all IFIP Members takes place annually and has overall responsibility for IFIP’s strategy, finances and activities. It elects a President, four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Secretary and eight Trustees who together form the IFIP Council.•Technical Assembly

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Technical Work

12 Technical Committees with

80 Working Groups organizing yearly

over 70 international events.

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At the heart of IFIP lie its Technical Committees that count on

the active participation of over two thousand people world-

wide. There are twelve such Committees. Each, in effect, is a

management team responsible for a given field of activity and

for the work of its Working Groups. These groups work in a

variety of ways to share experience and to develop their

specialized knowledge. These include open conferences,

smaller working conferences, seminars and tutorials,

circulated papers and, increasingly, as befits our subject,

electronic conferencing and e-mail.

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Technical CommitteesTC 1 Foundations of Computer ScienceTC 2 Software: Theory and PracticeTC 3 EducationTC 5 Computer Applications in TechnologyTC 6 Communication SystemsTC 7 System Modeling and OptimizationTC 8 Information SystemsTC 9 Relationship between Computers and SocietyTC 10 Computer Systems TechnologyTC 11 Security and Protection in IP SystemsTC 12 Artificial IntelligenceTC 13 Human - Computer Interaction

SG 16 Entertainment Computing

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PublicationsBooks - Journals -Technical Committee Reports -

Newsletters - Information Bulletins - Other

Many IFIP events generate publications and there are annually some 35 to 40 IFIP books and associations with several Journals. Our principal publisher is:

Kluwer Springer

Entertainment Computing Technologies and Applicationsedited by Ryohei Nakatsu Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan Junichi Hoshino University of Tsukuba, Japan Book Series:IFIP INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING : Volume 112

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Congresses & Major Conferences

IFIP's flagship event is its World Computer Congress

The 17th Congress was held from 25 to 30 August 2002 in Montreal, Canada

The 18th Congress was held from 20 to 27 August 2004 in Toulouse, France

There are many other major events organized by IFIP and included in the IFIP Calendar http://www.ifip.or.at/cal_even/htm

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Congresses & Major Conferences

The 19th Congress is scheduled for August 2006 in Santiago, Chile

[click to launch video about Chile]

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Technical Committee 14Entertainment Computing

•To be founded in 2005•Annual ICEC conferences•3 working groups

•WG 14.1 Entertainment and Storytelling•WG 14.2 Entertainment and Robots•WG 14.3 Theoretical Foundation of Entertainment

Documents

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