#turing award

[datascience-from-the-trenches]

Stanford’s Jeffrey Ullman receives ACM Turing Award. Ullman shares the prize with long-time collaborator Alfred Aho of Columbia University. They are recognized for their influential work on compilers and algorithms, including their co-authorship of widely popular textbooks on these topics.

Jeffrey Ullman receives ACM Turing Award | Stanford News

Ullman shares the prize with long-time collaborator Alfred Aho of Columbia University. They are recognized for their influential work on com

https://news.stanford.edu/2021/03/31/jeffrey-ullman-receives-acm-turing-award/

[jewish-pride]

‘Godfathers of AI’ honored with Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun laid the foundations for modern AI

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun — sometimes called the ‘godfathers of AI’ — have been recognized with the $1 million annual prize for their work developing the AI subfield of deep learning. The techniques the trio developed in the 1990s and 2000s enabled huge breakthroughs in tasks like computer vision and speech recognition. Their work underpins the current proliferation of AI technologies, from self-driving cars to automated medical diagnoses.

[lenrosen]

Four stories that illustrate the current state of quantum computing and future killer applications.

https://www.21stcentech.com/what-killer-application-driving-

[taonf]

Happy birthday, Alan Perlis, leading figure in computer science, CMU alumnus and professor. 🎂

Best known for his pioneering work in programming languages, he became the first recipient of the Turing Award.

Shown here in images (c.1960) found in Carnegie Mellon University Digital Collections.

[pargery]

COVID hit in 2019, the year of the Internet's 50th anniversary. It was almost as if we had built the Internet for COVID. Zoom was there and soon everyone was using it. Now many of us have had a taste of remote work and remote education. We are experimenting with the economies of massive substitution of communication for transportation. This will play out over the next decade. And the impacts will be massive and beneficial. Therefore, I like to say that COVID is short for collaborative video.

--Robert Metcalf , quoted in "People of ACM" newsletter

"Robert Melancton Metcalfe is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin and a Research Affiliate in Computational Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

He is the recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet."

[ethtropy]

AI pioneer: ‘The dangers of abuse are very real’

Yoshua Bengio, winner of the prestigious Turing award for his work on deep learning, is establishing international guidelines for the ethical use of AI.

#YoshuaBengio, winner of the prestigious #TuringAward for his work on conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing, talks about the need for international guidelines for ethical use of #AI. #Nature #MILA #ACM

[senzalinea-blog]

Assegnati i Turing Award, i “Nobel” dell’informatica Il premio Turing, finanziato da Google, considerato il Nobel dell'informatica è stato assegnato ai pionieri che hanno rivoluzionato la ricerca sull'intelligenza artificiale aprendo la strada alle applicazioni pratiche, dalle diagnosi delle malattie all'analisi dei cambiamenti climatici…

[mzimnik]

About time! Sir Tim Berners-Lee finally gets his due. The inventor of the Web is this year's recipient of the AM Turing Award, computing's version of the Nobel Prize (since Nobel does not prize for computer/programming-related achievements).

Most people who search on Google, share on Facebook and shop on Amazon have never heard of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But they wouldn't be doing any of those things had he not invented the World Wide Web. Also, he's championed privacy and equal access to the Web, something now in jeopardy here in the US due to #Trump. Berners-Lee, 61, this year's recipient of the AM Turing Award announced Tuesday by the Association for Computing Machinery, has marked another pinnacle in a brilliant career for the British native, who has already been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and named as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th Century by TIME magazine. "It's a crowning achievement," Berners-Lee said in an interview with the AP. "But I think the award is for the Web as a project, and the massive international collaborative spirit of all that have joined me to help."

The honor comes with a $1 million prize funded by Google, one of many companies that made a fortune as a result of Berners-Lee's efforts to make the Internet more accessible. He managed that largely by figuring out a simple way to post documents, pictures and video online. Starting in 1989, Berners-Lee began working on ways digital objects could be identified and retrieved through browser software capable of rendering graphics and other images. In August 1991, he launched the world's first website (you can view it here, which is a lot of fun, but use the 2nd link, the simulator so you can see how it used to look in 1989: http://info.cern.ch). In an even more significant move, Berners-Lee decided against patenting his technology and instead offered it as royalty-free (open source). That allowed other programmers to build upon the foundation he'd laid. So many of us owe him a great debt.

https://techcrunch.com/…/04/04/tim-berners-lee-turing-award/