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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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    Association for Computing Machinery
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    Apr 15
    Congrats to Ricardo Baeza-Yates on receiving the 2025 ACM Luiz André Barroso Award! He is recognized for his contributions to algorithms and information retrieval & his leadership in fostering a research community across Latin America. buff.ly/eu4fFmd
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    Mar 27, 2019
    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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    Jan 4, 2024
    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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    Mar 5, 2025
    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
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    Mar 30, 2022
    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
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    Apr 10, 2024
    🏆 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
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    Mar 31, 2021
    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
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    Mar 22, 2023
    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
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    Apr 1, 2020
    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
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    Association for Computing Machinery
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    Apr 4, 2017
    ACM is pleased to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the recipient of the 2016 #ACMTuringAward! ow.ly/D84630axSKl @timberners_lee
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    Apr 6, 2022
    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
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    Association for Computing Machinery
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    Aug 5, 2020
    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
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    Jan 12, 2022
    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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    Association for Computing Machinery
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    Jun 23, 2021
    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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