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international federation for information processing

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international federation for information processing - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  International Federation for Information Processing
  
     <body> A multinational federation of professional and technical
     organisations (or national groupings of such organisations)
     concerned with information processing.  From any one country,
     only one such organisation - which must be representative of
     the national activities in the field of information processing
     - can be admitted as a Full Member.  In addition, a regional
     group of developing countries can be admitted as a Full
     Member.  On 1 October 1993, 46 organisations were Full Members
     of the Federation, representing 66 countries.
  
     IFIP was founded under the auspices of UNESCO and advises them
     and the ITU-T.
  
     (http://dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html).
  
     (1995-03-10)