The Swiss Informatics Society (Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft), short "SI", is a Swiss organization of computer science educators, researchers, and professionals. The Swiss Informatics Society was founded in 1983. Helmar Burkhart was the president from 1990 to 1992,

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has been president from 2009 to 2014,

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was president from 2014 to 2018. Since 2020, the president is Francis Baud. SI has about 2000 members, academics in research and science and representatives from business, administration and education. It is the largest organization of IT specialists in Switzerland. A focus of SI is the exchange of IT education on university and college level and IT practice in companies. It maintains working groups, including

computer science education Computer science education or computing education is the art of teaching and learning the discipline of computer science, and computational thinking. As a subdiscipline of pedagogy it also addresses the wider impact of computer science in socie ...

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and

computer security Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

. A working group, coordinated by the

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, deals with

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s, their theory and application, including aspects such as "web information systems, ontologies, XML data management, service-oriented architectures and information retrieval systems". SI serves as a network for its members and represents their interests in politics and education. SI collaborates with the US

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

(ACM) and the German

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(GI). The organization is a member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and

International Federation for Information Processing The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global organisation for researchers and professionals working in the field of computing to conduct research, develop standards and promote information sharing. Established in 196 ...

(IFIP). It is the Swiss partner for the international certificate European Computer Driving License (ECDL). Collaborations include for example a conference on the "role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in energy efficiency and sustainable development" in Zurich in 2013. SI celebrated a history of 30 years on 25 June 2013 at the ''Fachhochschule Westschweiz'' in

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. The program includes events of working groups, lectures by scientists from the

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and others, prizes for bachelor's and master's theses, and a final discussion on the future of IT education in Switzerland.

References

External links

The Swiss Informatics Society SI
Official website
Professional Groups
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) {{DEFAULTSORT:Swiss Informatics Society 1983 establishments in Switzerland Organizations established in 1983 Computer science organizations