The director of Lero, Prof Mike Hinchey, has taken over the presidency of the International Federation for Information Processing.
The IFIP is the global professional federation of societies and associations for people working in information and communications technologies and sciences.
Prof Hinchey is a director of Lero, the Irish software research centre, Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland and a consultant to NASA’s space programme.
Prof Hinchey was elected in October last during IFIP’s 2015 general assembly after the World Computer Congress (WCC 2015) in South Korea, and has served as president-elect since. He succeeds Leon Strous, who completed his second consecutive term as president at the 2016 general assembly held recently, after the World IT Forum 2016 in Costa Rica.
Prof Hinchey said he intends to build on his predecessor’s efforts to raise the profile of IFIP and its many achievements by developing closer relationships with other industry bodies, governments and international agencies such as the United Nations.
“As the umbrella society for national ICT professional bodies around the world, IFIP represents the people working in ICT and has access to the knowledge and expertise of over half a million ICT professionals and researchers through our member societies,” he said. “When it comes to the ICT sector, we really do represent the world. We want to play a larger role by promoting professionalism and ethics in ICT, and by bringing together the right experts who can apply technology to solve some of the challenges we currently face as a society.”
Prior to his current professional roles, Prof Hinchey was director of the software engineering laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, where his work helped make NASA missions self-managing and better able handle challenging terrains. He also helped develop significant advances in survivability, reducing the likelihood of mission failure, and continues to consult on various space projects.
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