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The world's largest professional organization advancing #computing as a science and profession. Also @mastodon.acm.org Likes & shares ≠endorsement
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Meet the 2024 #ACMFellows! ACM has named 55 outstanding members as ACM Fellows for their groundbreaking contributions to computing science and technology. Please join us in applauding their accomplishment and contributions!.. #Computing #Innovation
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Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, the fathers of #DeepLearning, receive the 2018 #ACMTuringAward for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing today.
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It is with great remorse that we mark the passing of programming language pioneer and A.M. Turing Laureate Niklaus Wirth, who passed away on Jan 1, 2024. Wirth developed a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL, which provided a foundation
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Congratulations to Jack Dongarra, who receives 2021 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for decades."
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🏆 We're thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2023 #ACMTuringAward: Avi Wigderson! Wigderson is recognized for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation. Join us in celebrating his incredible achievements! Learn more here: @the_IAS
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Columbia's Al Aho & Stanford's Jeffrey Ullman receive the 2020 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation & for synthesizing these results in their highly influential books. @CUSEAS @StanfordEng
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Congratulations to Bob Metcalfe, who receives 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for "the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet," which has become the dominant way of connecting computers to other devices, to each other & to the Internet:
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ACM is pleased to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the recipient of the 2016 #ACMTuringAward! @timberners_lee
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Fran Allen, the first woman to receive the #ACMTuringAward and @IBM's first female Fellow, passed away yesterday on her 88th birthday. Allen made pioneering contributions to computing, and was a dedicated mentor and champion for women in technology:
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Born on this day in 1944, Jim Gray received the 1998 #ACMTuringAward for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation. In the video, Gray shares his thoughts on database transactions and the ACID test:
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Alan Mathison Turing was born on this day in 1912. He was a British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing. The #ACMTuringAward, computing's most prestigious award, was named in Alan Turing's honor.
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Happy birthday to Geoffrey E. Hinton! Hinton received the 2018 #ACMTuringAward with Yoshua Bengio and @ylecun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
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Edsger Dijkstra was born on this day in 1930. He received the 1972 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to programming as a high intellectual challenge & for eloquent insistence & practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly.
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Happy birthday to Yoshua Bengio! Bengio received the 2018 #ACMTuringAward with @geoffreyhinton and @ylecun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
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Happy birthday to Don Knuth! Knuth received the 1974 #ACMTuringAward for his major contributions to the analysis of #algorithms and the design of #programming languages. Watch this video where Knuth discusses the origins & motivations of the TeX project:
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Happy birthday to Don Knuth! Knuth received the 1974 #ACMTuring Award for his contributions to the analysis of #algorithms & the design of #programming languages. Watch Knuth tell the origin of his lifetime project, The Art of Computer Programming:
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Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull will receive the 2019 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.
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ACM is pleased to announce today that John L. Hennessy, former President of @Stanford University, and David A. Patterson, retired @UCBerkeley Professor, will receive the 2017 #ACMTuringAward.
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Born on this day in 1930, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra received the 1972 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge. Learn more about his achievements here: . #ACM #Computing #Programming #OTD #Pioneers
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Congratulations to Scott Aaronson of the University of Texas at Austin (@UTAustin) for receiving the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing! .
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Grace Hopper was born on this day in 1906. Hopper helped devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. She was instrumental in the development of the COBOL, which went on to become the most ubiquitous language for business ever.
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Donald Knuth: "Computer science shares with mathematics the privilege of being able to invent the problems we work on." #Turing50
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Happy birthday to Yann LeCun! LeCun received the 2018 #ACMTuringAward with Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
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ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient @DaphneKoller has been instrumental in using #MachineLearning as a tool to advance biology and medicine. As a co-founder of @coursera, she has also made great contributions to democratizing education:
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Hanrahan and Catmull made pioneering contributions to 3-D computer graphics and GPU development that ushered in today’s stunning CGI-animated films, revolutionized video games, and helped enable many other aspects of computing. #ACMTuringAward
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Congratulations to Yael Tauman Kalai of @MSFTResearch on receiving the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing! Kalai is recognized for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. Learn more abt her work here:
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Born on this day in 1941, Dennis M. Ritchie received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. .#ACM #Computing #TuringAward
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What are leading mathematicians and computer scientists excited about in their fields?. #ACMTuringAward Laureates @ylecun and Yoshua Bengio share their answers at the 8th @HLForum Laureate Discussion. Watch the full discussion here: .#HLF21
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Developers are encouraged by @Microsoft to adopt the @mozilla Rust programming language. @rustlang addresses memory corruption bugs in C and C++ code that are the source of modern #softwaresecurity vulnerabilities. Read more @CSOonline:
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#ACMTuringAward recipient Dennis M. Ritchie was born on this day in 1941. Ritchie invented C, and along with Ken Thompson, created the #UNIX operating system which led a generation of software designers to new ways of thinking about programming:
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We are sad to hear of the passing of Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing and the visionary behind the ACM Gordon Bell Prize. His dedication to innovation inspired countless breakthroughs. Our deepest condolences to his loved ones. #InMemoriam #HPC
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Happy birthday to Ken Thompson! Thompson received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Dennis M. Ritchie, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. #ACM #Computing #OTD #UNIX
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💐Jelani Nelson @cityofberkeley receives the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for founding & developing AddisCoder, a nonprofit organization which teaches programming to underserved students from all over Ethiopia. ⠀
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Today, ACM is happy to release the updated #ACMCodeOfEthics and Professional Conduct. Arising from the experiences, values and aspirations of computing professionals around the world, the Code captures the conscience of the computing profession:
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ACM is proud to announce that Martin E. Hellman and Whitfield Diffie have received the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award!
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Congratulations to the members of the @ProjectJupyter Steering Council on receiving the 2018 #ACMSoftwareSystemAward! #ProjectJupyter is a broad collaboration that develops #OpenSource tools for interactive computing, with a language-agnostic design.
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Happy birthday to Donald Knuth! Knuth received the 1974 #ACMTuringAward for his contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books.
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Happy International Women's Day! A quote from the computing luminary Grace Murray Hopper to start your day☕. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth #ACM #computing
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Happy birthday to Leslie Lamport! Lamport received the 2013 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks. #ACM #CS
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#ACMTuringAward recipient Vint Cerf warns about ethical issues of the technology behind #ChatGPT, which "can generate plausible sounding but incorrect information even when trained on a foundation of factual material." Learn more here via @CNET : #TechNews
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"I decided to write my own version of Unix V7 so students could learn all about it and study the operating system code." Watch Andrew S. Tanenbaum, recipient of the 2023 ACM Software System Award, talk abt the origin of MINIX and its long-lasting impact:
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Congratulations to Yossi Azar, Andrei Broder, Anna Karlin, Michael Mitzenmacher, and Eli Upfal for receiving the 2020 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. Their Balanced Allocations framework has had a wide-spread practical impact.
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Congratulations to Margaret Martonosi of @PrincetonCS for receiving the 2021 Eckert-Mauchly Award! She is being recognized for contributions to the design, modeling, and verification of power-efficient computer architecture.
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At 18:30 CEST on Monday, September 21, #ACMTuringAward recipients Antony Hoare and Leslie Lamport will have a dialogue at the 2020 Virtual @HLForum. Tune into the livestream of this event at: .#VHLF2020
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Born on this day in 1941, Dennis Ritchie received the #ACMTuringPrize with Ken Thompson for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. #programming #pioneers
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Happy birthday to Don Knuth! Knuth received the 1974 #ACMTuringAward for his major contributions to the analysis of #algorithms and the design of #programming languages. Watch this video to learn how Knuth wrote The Art of Computer Programming:
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Happy birthday to Niklaus Wirth! Wirth received the 1984 #ACMTuringAward for developing a sequence of innovative #computerlanguages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and #PASCAL. In this video, Wirth discusses the importance of abstraction to language design:
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@minilek receives the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for founding & developing @AddisCoder , a nonprofit org which teaches programming to underserved students from all over Ethiopia. Watch this video to learn more: .#computing #coding #diversityandequity
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ACM has recently learned of concerns regarding statements made in the past by Jeffrey Ullman, one of this year’s Turing Award recipients. These statements do not reflect the views of ACM.
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On this day in 1930, 1972 #ACMTuringAward recipient Edsger Dijkstra was born. His acceptance speech discussed the evolution of programming as a discipline and predicted its continued growth. It is required reading for any aspiring computer scientist:
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Congratulations to Geoff Hinton for receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics! Hinton received the 2018 A.M. Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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Register for the next #ACMTechTalk, "Learning from Data: The Two Cultures," on July 9 at 1pm EDT, and presented by @adjiboussodieng of Google AI and Princeton University.
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Congratulations to Chelsea Finn on receiving the 2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award! Finn is a Research Scientist at @Google Brain and a postdoctoral researcher at the Berkeley AI Research Lab (@berkeley_ai):
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Message from ACM Regarding Open Access to ACM Digital Library during Coronavirus
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ACM and @ComputerSociety have named Kunle Olukotun, a Professor @Stanford, as the recipient of the 2023 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions & leadership in the development of parallel systems. Please join us in congratulating the recipient!
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Happy birthday to #ACMTuringAward recipient Nicklaus E. Wirth! Wirth received the 1984 A.M. Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL.
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Congratulations to @geraldcombs on receiving the ACM Software System Award for creating the Wireshark network protocol analyzer, an essential tool for nearly anyone involved in network protocol design: @WiresharkNews
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#OTD in 1959, "LISP," the first #AI #programming language, was unveiled by computer pioneer John McCarthy and his team. Specifically designed to facilitate research in AI, the language was distinctive for its ability to manipulate symbolic expressions:
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Fred Brooks, recipient of the 1999 ACM Turing Award, passed away on Nov 17 at age 91. Please join us in remembering his achievements, including contributions to computer architecture and software engineering. Our condolences to his family and friends.
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As we celebrate #75YearsofACM , we are proud to announce that ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of our publishing program. Check out over 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics via @ACMDL:
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Happy birthday to #ACMTuringAward recipient Alan Kay! Kay received the 2003 A.M. Turing Award for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary programming languages, leading the Smalltalk team, and for contributions to personal computing.
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Noga Alon (of @Princeton & @TelAvivUni), Phillip Gibbons (of @CarnegieMellon) Yossi Matias (of @Google) and Mario Szegedy (of @RutgersU) will receive the 2019 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for contributions to large scale data analytics:
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Happy birthday to Barbara Liskov! Liskov received the 2008 #ACMTuringAward for contributions to practical & theoretical foundations of programming language & system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, & distributed computing.
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Congratulations to Chuchu Fan, whose dissertation received the 2020 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for making foundational contributions to verification of embedded and cyber-physical systems. Happy #AdaLovelaceDay to all #WomenInSTEM !.
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Happy birthday to Leslie Lamport! Lamport received the 2013 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems.
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Congratulations to Éva Tardos on receiving the 2022 Athena Lecturer Award! Tardos is selected for fundamental contributions to combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms & algorithmic game theory, and for dedicated service to these communities.
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200 years ago on this day, Charles Babbage, a founding visionary of modern computing, submitted a one-page paper on his invention, the Difference Engine. Containing 25,000 distinct parts, the machine is the world's first mechanical computer. 🔗:
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Born on this day in 1906, Grace Murray Hopper was a computer pioneer and naval officer. One of the first three modern “programmers,” Hopper is best known for her trailblazing contributions to the development of computer languages. #womenintech
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#OTD in 1996, the first version of Java, a #programming language, was released. Originally designed for interactive television, its "write once, run anywhere" feature made it ideal for Internet programming. #technology #ACM #innovation
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Edsger Dijkstra was born on this day in 1930. He received the 1972 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to programming as a high intellectual challenge & for eloquent insistence & practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly.
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#OTD in 1954, the IBM 704 is announced. The first mass-produced computer to incorporate indexing and floating point arithmetic, it became a commercial success, with both FORTRAN and LISP were first developed for it. #computing #computers #programming #TodayInHistory
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Erik Meijer discusses probabilistic programming In "Making Money Using Math" in @ACMQueue: @headinthebox
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Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan of @CarnegieMellon University will receive the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for foundational and breakthrough contributions to minimally-supervised learning.
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Born on this day in 1906, Grace Murray Hopper was a computer pioneer and naval officer. One of the first three modern “programmers,” Hopper is best known for her trailblazing contributions to the development of computer languages. #WomenInTech #ACM #HappyBirthday #Programmer #CS
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Augusta Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, is born #otd in 1815. In 1843, she translated Luigi Federico Menabrea's paper on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. The translation, together w/ her notes, was the most elaborate, complete description of the device.
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🎉 On this day in 1912, the brilliant Alan M. Turing was born! His groundbreaking work laid the foundation for modern computing and played a crucial role in helping the Allies win World War II. The prestigious #ACMTuringAward was named in his honor:
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Congratulations to Aayush Jain, whose dissertation receives the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award! Honorable Mentions go to Alane Suhr @alsuhr , whose PhD was earned at @Cornell , and Conrad Watt @conrad_watt , who earned his PhD at @Cambridge_Uni .
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Less than 24 hours left before the announcement of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award! Stay tuned 🏆
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Researchers at @MIT have developed a #machinelearning system that can automatically #translate a lost language, without advanced knowledge of its relationship to other dialects. Read more here via MIT:
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Congratulations to former ACM President Adele Goldberg, who is selected as the 2022 @ComputerHistory Fellow for the promotion and co-development of the Smalltalk programming environment & contributions that advanced the use of computers in education!
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El Código de Ética de ACM surgió de las experiencias, los valores y las aspiraciones de los profesionales de informática en todo el mundo, y captura la conciencia de la profesión. Lea el código actualizado aquí: #ACMCódigoDeÉtica
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Happy birthday to #ACMTuringAward recipient Barbara Liskov! Liskov received the 2008 A.M. Turing Award for contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design.
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Announcing the 2023 #ACMFellows! This year's 68 inductees include the inventor of the World Wide Web, the "godfathers of AI," and other colleagues whose contributions have been important building blocks in forming the digital society that shapes our world.
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#ACMTuringAward recipient Shafi Goldwasser helped pioneer the field of provable security, which laid the mathematical foundations for modern cryptography. Which women in computing inspire you? . Share with #SheIsWhyICode!. #WomensHistoryMonth
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Raluca Ada Popa of @UCBerkeley receives the 2021 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the design of secure distributed systems. Learn more about her accomplishments here:
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Happy birthday to Leslie Lamport! Lamport received the 2013 #ACMTuringAward for contributions to distributed & concurrent systems theory, including: causality, logical clocks, safety, liveness, replicated state machines, and sequential consistency. Watch:
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Happy birthday to Andrew Chi-Chih Yao! Yao received the 2000 #ACMTuringAward for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography and communication complexity.
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The United States Senate has adopted measures that would designate Oct. 9, 2018 as “National Ada Lovelace Day,” and honor the life and legacy of Grace Hopper.
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Happy birthday to @ylecun ! LeCun received the 2018 #ACMTuringAward with Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
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Doug Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse & hypertext, was born on this day in 1925. He received the 1997 #ACMTuringAward for an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing & the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision.
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Happy birthday to Tony Hoare! Hoare received the 1980 #ACMTuringAward for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of #programming languages. In this video, Hoare shares how he came up with Quicksort:
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Who are some of your favorite #WomenInSTEM?
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@timberners_lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, one of the most influential innovations in history, will receive the 2016 #ACMTuringAward
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💐Meet the 2022 ACM Fellows! 57 of the ACM members have been selected for their wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in the #computing field. Please join us in congratulating these new inductees!.Learn more about their achievements here: .#ACMFellows
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