IFIP TC3 Trophy for IOI
IFIP
The International Federation
for Information Processing (IFIP)
is a multinational federation of professional and technical organisations
(or national groupings of such organisations) concerned with
information processing.
From any one country, only one such organisation - which must be
representative of the national activities in the field of information
processing - can be admitted as a Full Member.
IFIP was founded under the auspices of UNESCO and
maintains informal relationships with other members of the UN family.
Mission
IFIP's mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical
organisation which encourages and assists in the development, exploitation,
and application of Information Technology for the benefit of all people.
The basic aims of IFIP are:
- to promote information science and technology;
- to advance international cooperation in the field of information processing;
- to stimulate research, development, and the application of information
processing in science and human activity;
- to further the dissemination and exchange of information or
information processing;
- to encourage education in information processing.
These are very similar to the aims of the
International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).
TC3
Technical work, which is the heart of IFIP's activity,
is managed by a series of Technical Committees (TC's).
TC3 deals with all aspects involving education and informatics.
IFIP, and especially TC3 are very appreciative of what the IOI has done to
further informatics in education and international cooperation in this field.
Indeed, for most of its existence, IOI meetings have been attended by an
IFIP TC3 representative;
first Prof. Tom van Weert and later
Peter Waker.
To give substance to their appreciation, IFIP made a floating trophy
availabe to the IOI, to be awarded as seen fit by the International Jury.
At its meetings in Argentina during IOI '93 the International Jury decided
that the trophy should be awarded to the student (or students) with the
highest overall score.
The benefit to the winning student is recognition by the international body
of professionals in the field of informatics.
Being able to say
``I was awarded the IFIP trophy for having the highest score at IOI'nn''
will give this achievement the status it deserves in the eyes of the world's IT
professionals.
IOI Secretariat /
ioi-secretariat@win.tue.nl
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