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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 technologyInformation_and_communications_technology Information and Communications Technology] with offices (ICT) based in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxenburg Laxenburg], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AustriaAustria].
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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm Stockholm] as attachment of its [[Conferences#IFIP6|Sixth IFIP Congress ]] <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ifip/ifip74.html dblp: 6. IFIP Congress 1974: Stockholm, Sweden]</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Conferences#IFIP|IFIP Congress]]
* [[Lancaster#MacHack|IFIPS 1968 - Lancaster vs. Mac Hack VI]]
* [[WCCC 1974]]
* [[WCCC 1977]]
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