50th Anniversary Events

Hironori Washizaki is the 2025 IEEE Computer Society (CS) president. He is a professor and the associate dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University. He is a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics and an advisor at the University of Human Environments. He also works in the industry as an outside director and advisor at eXmotion and SI&C. He has led professional and educational activities at the IEEE CS, including the evolution of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and the CS Juniors program. He has led many academia-industry joint research and large-funded projects in systems and software requirements, design, reuse, quality assurance, and AI software engineering. He leads a professional IoT/AI/DX education project called "Smart SE." Since 2015, he has been the convenor of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20 to standardize bodies of knowledge and certifications in systems and software engineering.

Geoff Huston AM is the Chief Scientist at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry serving the Asia Pacific region. He has been closely involved with the development of the Internet for many years, where he lead the effort of the initial deployment of the Internet in Australia from the Australian academic and research sector. He has worked for the largest Australian communications service provider, Telstra, in senior engineering, architecture and research roles assisting with the large scale deployment of the Internet across Australia and as a transit service provider in the Asia Pacific region. He is author of a number of Internet-related books, and was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1999 until 2005, as well as chairing a number of Working Groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force. His current research interests include the DNS, routing security and measurement.