The 24th IFIP TC7 conference will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina in
July 27-31, 2009
IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing:
- is the leading multinational, apolitical organization in Information &
Communications Technologies and Sciences.
- is recognized by United nations and other world bodies.
- represents IT Societies from 56 countries or regions, covering all 5
continents with a total membership of over half a million.
- links more than 3500 scientists from Academia and Industry,
organized in more than 101 Working Groups reporting to 13
Technical Committees.
- sponsors 100 conferences yearly providing unparalleled coverage
from theoretical informatics to the relation between informatic and
society including hardware and software technologies, and
networked information systems.
Argentina is a member of IFIP since the 1960 decade due to the
initiative of Dr.Manuel Sadosky.
IFIP TC 7 promotes development of computational methods and applications in many fields as Engineering, Transportation, Energy, Economics, etc. Each biennial conference gathers the TC 7 Working Groups and a wide community of researchers, thus providing a platform for exchanging ideas and results pertaining both to theoretical aspects and to computational experience gained on specific applications.
Ten plenary speakers from different countries were selected and are being invited. This will be a unique opportunity for getting in contact with outstanding scientists and practitioners, and therefore a large attendance form Argentina and neighboring countries is expected.
The congress will be opened by the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovative Production, Dr. Lino Barañao, and will be closed by the President, Dr.Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.