ACM President Alexander L. Wolf announces recipients of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM's most prestigious award. The ACM A.M. Turing Award is named for the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing and helped crack the Enigma cipher during World War II. This award comes with a $1 million prize, provided with financial support from Google.
Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman have been named recipients of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to modern cryptography. Their groundbreaking 1976 paper, "New Directions in Cryptography," introduced the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, which are the foundation for most security protocols on the internet today.
The ACM A.M. Turing Award, computing’s most prestigious honor, acknowledges individuals who have made lasting and major contributions to the field of computing. Here, we look back at some of these technologies and breakthroughs that continue to impact our lives, and the remarkable innovators who helped shape them.
Former ACM SIGGRAPH Vice President and Academy Award recipient Paul Debevec leads the Graphics Laboratory at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies.
Debevec will present, "Lighting Hollywood's Real and Virtual Actors," one of three exciting ACM sessions at SXSW Interactive.
Patrick Baudisch is a professor of Computer Science at the Hasso-Plattner Institute and Chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Potsdam University.
Baudisch will present, "What if We Could 3D Print in One Second?" one of three exciting ACM sessions at SXSW Interactive.
ACM is hosting a happy hour at the 2016 South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Join us on Friday, March 11 for giveaways, free subscriptions, membership discounts, and more. And while you're there, attend three exciting ACM sessions.
ACM Fellow and former ACM President David Patterson helped launch UC Berkeley's Algorithms, Machines and People (AMPLab), which explores the role big data may play in finding a cure for cancer and other diseases. He describes how the AMPLab, in collaboration with Microsoft Research and UC Santa Cruz, developed software that helped save a life.
ACM applauds US President Barack Obama's historic announcement of the Computer Science for All initiative. As the announcement states, computer science is a new basic skill necessary for economic opportunity and social mobility, and one that impacts every sector of our economy. It is crucial that it be taught in all schools, in the US and around the world.
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What does it mean for data and software to truly be secure? Harvard University Computer Science Professor Boaz Barak discusses the cryptographic potential of obfuscation in "Hopes, Fears, and Software Obfuscation," the cover story in the March 2016 CACM.
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