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As the Swiss member of IFIP, SVI/FSI, appoints its delegates to the various IFIP bodies: the General Assembly and the Technical Committees. The IFIP site: provides detailed information on IFIP, its objectives, its organization, its Technical Committees and Working Groups, its activities, etc..
The Swiss delegates are appointed for a period of 4 years renewable by periods of 2 years. The names of the Swiss TC and Working Groups representatives are published on the SVI/FSI Web site.


One position is currently open:

TC 1 Foundations of Computer Science
(as there is no Swiss representative so far)

IFIP TC 1 aims are:
- to support the development of theoretical computer science as a fundamental science that has similar scientific goals in understanding the information processing world as physics has in understanding the energy processing world and similar goals in developing methodology for science and technology as mathematics does;
- to support the development and exploration of fundamental concepts, models, theories, systems, and other basic tools and the understanding of laws, limits, and possibilities of information processing as well as to de-velop bridges with other sciences and their applications.
TC 1 has seven Working Groups; their names can be found at

Are you personally interested to take over such an international task? Or do you know somebody suitable and ready for such a task? Please send applications for nominations by E-mail or mail before September 30th, 2003, with a short cv, interests in the field, and other pertinent information to SARIT, c/o: P-A.Bobillier, 128 route de Soral, 1233 Bernex.
Nomination rules are mentioned at:

An outline of the activities expected from TC representatives is listed here. More general information can be found here and at the Website of IFIP.

The board of SVI/FSI

The board of SARIT