Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Internet of Things
2009 ACM Prize recipient Eric Brewer, 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Vint Cerf, 2016–2017 Athena Lecturer Jennifer Rexford, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award...
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Cybersecurity
2002 ACM Turing laureate Len Adleman, 2014 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Dan Boneh, 2015 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Brent Waters, and ACM Fellows...
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ACM Recognizes New Fellows
ACM has recognized 53 of its members as ACM Fellows for major contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cryptography, computer architecture, high...
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In Memoriam: Calvin Carl “kelly” Gotlieb 1921-2016
Canada’s "Father of Computing" was 95.
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Preparing For the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Considering the utilization, opportunities, and future challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
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In Memoriam: Eric A. Weiss 1917-2016
Weiss nurtured the nascent publication programs of a young ACM.
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ACM and Infosys Foundation Honor Innovator in Network Security Research
Stefan Savage of the University of California, San Diego has been selected to receive the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
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Cryptography Pioneers Receive ACM A.m. Turing Award
Diffie and Hellman’s invention of public-key cryptography and digital signatures revolutionized computer security and made Internet commerce possible.
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Peter Naur: 1928-2016
Peter Naur, a Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, died recently after a brief illness.
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ACM Inducts Fellows
ACM has recognized 42 of its members for significant contributions to the development and application of computing, in areas ranging from data management and spoken...
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In Memoriam: Peter Naur 1928-2016
Peter Naur, a Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, died January 3 after a brief illness.
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Gene Amdahl, 1922-2015
Gene Amdahl, who formulated Amdahl's Law and worked with IBM and others on developments related to mainframe computing, died recently from complications of pneumonia...
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In Memoriam: Gene Amdahl 1922-2015
Gene Amdahl, who formulated Amdahl's Law and worked with IBM and others on developments related to mainframe computing, died Tuesday at the age of 92.
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John H. Holland 1929-2015
John Henry Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and of what became known as genetic algorithms, died in August at the age of 86.
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In Memoriam: Robert Dewar, 1945-2015
Robert Dewar, a significant contributor to the early development and continuing success of the Ada programming language, died June 21 at age 70.
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ACM Appoints New Ceo
Indiana University’s Robert Schnabel will take the top staff position at the world’s largest computing society.
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Liberty Science Center Bestows Genius Awards on Cerf, Bezos, Tartar
Liberty Science Center recently bestowed Genius Awards on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, and SETI astronomer Jill Tarter.
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Stonebraker Receives 2014 ACM A.m. Turing Award
MIT’s Stonebraker brought relational database systems from concept to commercial success.
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ACM Awards Knuth Prize to Pioneer for Advances in Algorithms and Complexity Theory
Georgia Tech's Lipton cited for introduction of new ideas and techniques
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