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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Organizations]] * IFIP'''
The '''International Federation for Information Processing''', or '''IFIP''', <br/>
is an organization for national societies working in the field of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology information technology] with offices in Austria.
IFIP was established in 1960 under the auspices of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO UNESCO], under the name '''International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIPS)'''.
The name was changed in 1961 to IFIP. The original contribution of IFIP was the definition of the [[Algol|Algol 68]] programming language,
which was one of the first examples of truly international collaboration in computer science and left a durable mark on the entire field.
The IFIP sponsored and hosted the [[WCCC 1974|First World Computer Chess Championship]] in Stockholm as attachment of the its Sixth IFIP Congress <ref>[httphttps://www.informatikdblp.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ifip/ifip74.html dblp: 6. IFIP Congress 1974: Stockholm, Sweden]</ref>.
=See also=
* [http://ershov.iis.nsk.su/ru/archive/group?nid=395444 ИФИП | Архив академика А.П. Ершова] (IFIP | [[Mathematician#Ershov|Andrey Ershov]] Archive)
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