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. bit.ly/2HVJtdV
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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
- Meet the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton! They are recognized for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Please join us in congratulating the two recipients! bit.ly/4hpdsbD
00:00 - 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." bit.ly/381HBiV
- 🏆 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: bit.ly/4aGpbiM @the_IAS
00:00 - 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. bit.ly/3rxr1LT @CUSEAS @StanfordEng
00:00 - 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: bit.ly/3YIm4ke
- David Silver, a Professor at University College London (@ucl) and a Principal Research Scientist at @DeepMind, will receive the 2019 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthrough advances in computer game-playing: bit.ly/3bEpsVd #ACMPrize
- ACM is pleased to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the recipient of the 2016 #ACMTuringAward! ow.ly/D84630axSKl @timberners_lee
- Our warmest congratulations to Pieter Abbeel @pabbeel, recipient of the 2021 #ACMPrize for contributions to robot learning, including learning from demonstrations and deep reinforcement learning for robotic control. Learn more about Abbeel’s work here: bit.ly/36O3tyb
- 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: ibm.co/30v6XQf
- 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:
00:00 - 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.
- 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. bit.ly/3GmDGJF
