International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

IFIP is a non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organization of national societies working in the field of information processing. IFIP’s principal aims are to foster international cooperation, stimulate research and development, encourage education and disseminate information. IFIP’s mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization that encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of IT for the benefit of all people. It was established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO.

Chair of Technical Committee 12 (Artificial Intelligence) 2003-9, Vice-chair 2009-present and UK Representative since 1998. The Technical Committee has members from over 35 countries. The Committee organises a programme of AI events on a worldwide basis as well as providing a forum for international collaboration.
Technical Committee 12 has Working Groups in six major areas of AI:

Working Group 12.1 - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Chair: Professor Timo Honkela, Finland)

Working Group 12.2 - Machine Learning and Data Mining (Chair: Prof. Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Working Group 12.3 - Intelligent Agents (Chair: Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Working Group 12.4 - Semantic Web (Chair: Prof. Tharam Dillon, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Working Group 12.5 - Artificial Intelligence Applications (Chair: Prof. Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK)

Working Group 12.6 - Knowledge Management (Chair: Dr. Rose Dieng, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Research Unit, France)
Chair of Working Group 12.5 (Artificial Intelligence Applications) since 2003
Joint Programme Chair for AIAI-2004: The First IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Toulouse, France, August 23rd-26th 2004
(Part of the IFIP World Computer Congress WCC 2004, Toulouse, France, August 22nd-27th 2004)
Member of International Program Committee for WCC 2004
Programme Chair for IFIP AI-2006: Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, Santiago, Chile, August 21st-24th, 2006
(Part of the IFIP World Computer Congress WCC 2006, Santiago, Chile, August 20th-25th, 2006)
Member of International Program Committee for WCC 2006
Programme Chair for IFIP AI-2008: Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, Milan, Italy, September 7th-10th, 2008
(Part of the IFIP World Computer Congress WCC 2008, Milan, Italy, September 7th-10th, 2008)
Member of International Program Committee for WCC 2008