2025-03-05
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! https://www.acm.org/... [video]
New York Times
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
2024-05-22
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 [image]
New York Times
Gordon Bell, who helped design several influential minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation, including the 12-bit PDP-8, died on May 17 at age 89
It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
2024-04-11
🏆 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: https://awards.acm.org/... @the_IAS [video]
Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrizat...
“As far as we know, for every problem that we face and try to solve, we can't rule out that it has an algorithm that can solve it. This is the single most interesting problem for me.” — Avi Wigderson, recipient of 2023 #ACMTuringAward
Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrizat...
2024-01-05
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... [image]
The Register
Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth, who devised nine programming languages and won the Turing Award in 1984, dies at 89
2023-03-22
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: https://awards.acm.org/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the Turing Award for his work on Ethernet at the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s
In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.