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Ecma news, press releases and communications

May 2025Call for participation on NLIP for communication with AI agents standardization
May 2025Loss of an Ecma colleague and friend Gino Lauri
March 2025Loss of an Ecma friend and Ecma Fellow Donald Baines
January 2025Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2025
January 2025Collaborating across W3C and Ecma for web-interoperable server runtimes through WinterTC
December 2024Ecma new standard ECMA-425 on statistical background correction for information technology and telecommunications equipment noise measurements
December 2024Ecma International approves new standards
December 2024Ecma International welcomes a new member
November 2024Two Ecma International winners for the 2024 JavaScriptLandia community award
October 2024Ecma International and the Open Compute Project announce a new collaboration
July 2024Ecma International enables innovative research between the Korean KAIST research group and Ecma TC39
July 2024Ecma International approves new standards
July 2024Ecma new standard ECMA-424 on CycloneDX Bill of Materials
June 2024Ecma International welcomes new members
January 2024Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2024
December 2023Ecma recognition awards honour Taku Hoshizawa, Myles Borins, Shane F. Carr and Mark Miller for their contributions and services to Ecma
December 2023Ecma International approves new standards
December 2023Ecma International welcomes new members
November 2023Agenda of Ecma TC53 workshop on the future of embedded software on 6 December 2023
November 2023Postponed to a later date – Workshop on opportunities for data and cloud standardization
October 2023OWASP Foundation is keen to join Ecma International
October 2023Ecma TC39 “ECMAScript®” initiates a new task group to standardize source maps
October 2023Invitation to Ecma TC53 workshop in Cupertino, USA, on 6 December 2023
September 2023Collaboration between W3C and Ecma International – A presentation by Ecma Secretary General and Vice-President
September 2023JavaScript community event in Tokyo, Japan on 25 September 2023
July 2023PRESS RELEASE – Ecma International appoints Samina Husain to Secretary General
July 2023Ecma new standard ECMA-423 on physical, optical and mechanical characteristics of a holographic data storage disk
June 2023Ecma recognition award honour Olaf Wilke for his contributions and services to Ecma
June 2023Ecma International welcomes new member
June 2023Ecma International approves new standards
May 2023Workshop on opportunities for data and cloud standardization
January 2023Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2023
December 2022Ecma recognition awards honour Isabelle Valet-Harper and Rex Jaeschke for their contributions and services to Ecma
December 2022Ecma International approves new standards
December 2022Ecma International welcomes new members
June 2022Ecma recognition awards honour Koji Fusa and Joel Marcey for their contributions and services to Ecma
June 2022Ecma International approves new standards
June 2022Ecma TC51 joins ITU-T JCA on digital Covid-19 certificates
May 2022Ecma President presenting on AI standardization supporting regulatory needs during the inaugural ISO/IEC AI Workshop
May 2022Recruitment of a new Secretary General for Ecma International
January 2022Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2022
December 2021Ecma recognition awards honour Aki Rose Braun and André Bargull for their contributions and services to Ecma
December 2021Ecma International approves new standards
December 2021Ecma International welcomes new members
November 2021US National Academy of Engineering publication highlights Ecma TC26 noise standards
November 2021Psychoacoustic Analyses according to ECMA-418-2 presented at INTER-NOISE 2021
August 2021Ecma International approves new edition of ECMA-417 Standard
July 2021Ecma TC39 new Task Group dedicated to the security of the ECMAScript (JavaScript) language
June 2021Ecma recognition awards honour Carol Eidt, Jordan Harband and Toyoshige Nohnishi for their contributions and services to Ecma
June 2021Ecma International welcomes new members
June 2021Ecma International approves new standards
June 2021Ecma International celebrates its 60th Anniversary
March 2021Call for participation on vaccine passport international standardization
March 2021Ecma Secretary General presented on the role of standards in Open Source at OpenForum Europe (OFE)
January 2021Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2021
January 2021Ecma International launches its new website
December 2020Ecma recognition awards honour Bob Hellweg, Shouichi Nakano and Charlie Oppenheimer for their contributions and services to Ecma
December 2020Ecma International welcomes new members
December 2020Ecma International approves new standards
September 2020W3C workshop about Machine Learning APIs in ECMAScript/JavaScript
June 2020Ecma recognition awards honour Caroline Arms and Leonardo Balter for their contributions and services to Ecma
June 2020Ecma International welcomes new members
June 2020Ecma International approves new standards
March 2020The presentations given at the TC53 seminar in Tokyo on a modern approach to embedded software are available
February 2020A short presentation to explain standardization at Ecma, its process, cooperation with Open Source, liaisons and more
January 2020An article on Ecma International activities in IEEE Communication Standards magazine
January 2020Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2020
December 2019Ecma recognition awards honour Masakazu Ito, Yoshinobu Mitsuhashi and Yulia Startsev for their contributions and services to Ecma
December 2019Ecma International welcomes new members
December 2019Ecma International approves new standards
December 2019A meetup by Ecma TC53 and Moddable on Wednesday 11 December 2019 Tokyo, Japan
November 2019Dr Istvan Sebestyen, Past Secretary General of Ecma, participated in a panel discussion and presented on the role of standards in Open Source at the Workshop about Open Source beyond 2020
November 2019Invitation to Ecma TC53 seminar, Tokyo, 11 December 2019, 10.00-12.00
October 2019Ecma TC53 meets in Boston, USA with a new title and scope to more accurately reflect the focus of the technical committee
August 2019Ecma General Assembly appoints Patrick Luthi as Secretary General
August 2019Ecma Fellow awards presented to Donald Baines and Kei Yamashita for their contributions to Ecma standards
June 2019Ecma International welcomes new members
June 2019Ecma International approves new standards
June 2019Ecma International joined Electrosuisse
May 2019Ecma SG gave a talk in the DLM Forum Annual General Meeting (May 21-22, 2019) in Bern, Switzerland
April 2019Ecma TC39 (ECMAScript) has formally now a new Task Group (TG2)
April 2019Ecma TC39 (ECMAScript) and TC53 (Wearables) are now “Royalty Free Technical Committees (RFTCs)”
April 2019Ecma TC39 (ECMAScript) has formally now a new Task Group (TG2)
February 2019Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2019
January 2019Former Ecma President and friend of many, Mr. John Neumann passed away
January 2019Ecma Fellow awards presented to Brendan Eich and Allen Wirfs-Brock for their contributions to the ECMAScript standard
January 2019Rex Jaeschke (Ecma), Anders Sandholm (Google) and Reinhard Meindl (NXP) have received the Ecma recognition award
January 2019Extension of the RF Ecma Patent Policy Option also to “Royalty Free TCs”
December 2018Results of the 116th General Assembly held in Boston, December 12, 2018
November 2018Ecma SG participated in the fifth World Internet Conference
October 2018Discussion topics for the inaugural meeting of Ecma TC53 in Boston (USA) on 15-16 October 2018
September 2018TC53 on Smart Wearable Systems and Sensor-Based Devices inaugural meeting
September 2018Launching of the Ecma Fellow award program
June 2018Results of the 115th General Assembly held in Geneva, June 27, 2018
May 2018Loss of an Ecma friend and former Ecma President, Dr. Paul Weijenbergh
May 2018Call for participation Royalty-Free Animated JPEG Standardization Proposal
April 2018New Ecma Wearable TC introduction and call for participation
February 2018Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2018
January 2018Kei Yamashita (Hitachi) – Ecma International President receives – Ecma Award of Appreciation
December 2017The fourth World Internet Conference was held on December 3-5, 2017 in the East China town of Wuzhen
December 2017IMTC presents lifetime achievement award to Ecma Secretary General
December 2017Last results of the 114th General Assembly held in Tokyo, December 6, 2017
November 2017SEAD Connected Efficiency Award goes to Ecma TC38
September 2017ECMA-262: The ECMAScript (JavaScript) – the most popular web scripting standard – is celebrating its 20th birthday
August 2017Ecma Secretary General honoured with JPEG award
June 2017Last results of the 113th General Assembly held in Montreux, June 27, 2017
January 2017Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2017
January 2017Presentations from the EPFL – Ecma International Summit on Smart Wearable Systems (13-14 October 2016) are now also available on YouTube
December 2016Last results of the 112th General Assembly held in Santa Clara, December 7, 2016
September 2016Time to register to the EPFL – Ecma International Summit on Smart Wearable Systems (13-14 October 2016)
July 2016International summit on smart wearable systems
June 2016Last results of the 111th General Assembly held in Montreux, June 14, 2016
April 2016New Ad hoc Group on sensors in wearable and small intelligent devices
January 2016Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2016
December 2015Last results of the 110th General Assembly held in Tokyo, December 9, 2015
September 2015On 17 June 2015, the 109th Ecma General Assembly approved new editions of Standards ECMA-370 and ECMA-400
August 2015At the 17 June 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, Ecma published 1st edition of Access Systems standards
August 2015On 17 June 2015, the 109th Ecma General Assembly approved new editions of NFC Standards
July 2015At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, ECMA TR/107 1st edition “An alternate background noise correction sensitive to the steadiness of background noise” has been adopted
July 2015At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, ECMA-262 6th edition – ECMAScript® 2015 Language Specification and ECMA-402 2nd edition – ECMAScript® 2015 Internationalization API have been adopted
June 2015At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, ECMA-408 3rd edition – the Dart programming language specification – has been adopted
June 2015At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux the “experimental” TC39 and TC52 Ecma Royalty-Free (RF) patent policy has become “formal” Ecma-wide patent policy option and the “experimental” TC39 software copyright policy has been promoted to a “formal” Ecma-wide software copyright policy.
June 2015Last results of the 109th General Assembly held in Montreux, June 17, 2015
January 2015Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2015
December 2014Last results of the 108th General Assembly held in Sapporo, December 11, 2014
September 2014The world’s first 3D audio Standard ECMA-407 showcased in IBC 2014’s “future zone”
September 2014A TC39 (ECMAScript) panel discussion will be held in Boston on September 23, 2014.
September 2014PRESS RELEASE – Ecma publishes the world’s first 3D audio standard ECMA‑407:”Scalable Sparse Spatial Sound System (S5) – Base S5 Coding”
June 2014Last results of the 107th General Assembly held in Heidelberg, June 25, 2014
February 20142013 Download Statistics from the Ecma Public Website
January 2014Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2014
December 2013Last results of the 106th General Assembly held in Las Vegas, December 10, 2013
November 2013Presentation to IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum, Porto, October 2013 by Mr. Clemens Par (Convenor of Ecma TC32-TG22)
September 2013Panel discussion at Bocoup in Boston about the JavaScript (ECMAScript – ECMA-262) language
September 2013Ecma workshop on Dart
June 2013Last results of the 105th General Assembly held in Nice, June 11, 2013
May 2013Ecma recognition to JTC 1 on their 25 years Anniversary
March 2013Loss of two Ecma friends and collaborators Mr. Francois Le Carvennec and Mr. Mike Deese
March 2013New Ecma Technical Report TR/106 “Guidance and Comparison between 60950-1 and 62368-1”
March 2013Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2013
December 2012Last results of the 104th General Assembly held in Nice, December 12, 2012
June 2012Last results of the 103rd General Assembly held in Vienna, June 25, 2012
December 2011Last results of the 102nd General Assembly held in San Francisco, December 6, 2011
June 2011Ecma International celebrates its 50th anniversary
June 2011Last results of the 101st General Assembly held in Divonne, June 29, 2011
March 2011Ecma publishes new Standard on Test Method for the Estimation of Lifetime of Optical Media for Long-term Data Storage
December 2010Last results of the 100th General Assembly held in Montreux, December 8, 2010
June 2010Last results of the 99th General Assembly held in Tokyo, June 17, 2010
December 2009Ecma International approves major revision of ECMAScript