HBD, Leslie Valiant! Valiant received the 2010 #ACMTuringAward for transformative contributions to the theory of computation. In this video, he discusses why he decided to pursue learning as the "fundamental theoretical building block" of artificial intelligence.
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On this day in 1927, 1975 #ACMTuringAward Laureate Allen Newell was born. Newell received the award with co-recipient Herbert A. Simon for making basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
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Join us tomorrow as we announce the recipient of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award and celebrate a lifetime of extraordinary technical achievement.
🗓️ March 18, 2026
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HBD to Yoshua Bengio, 2018 #ACMTuringAward Laureate! Bengio received the award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. In this HLF interview, Bengio discusses the nature of intelligence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHhF....
Today, let’s remember Charles Thacker, who was born #OTD in 1943. Thacker received the #ACMTuringAward in 2009 for the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer -- the Alto at Xerox PARC. Read more about him, here: amturing.acm.org/award_winner... #OTD
Today, let’s remember Niklaus Wirth, who was born #OTD in 1934. Wirth received the 1984 #ACMTuringAward for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. Read more about him, here: amturing.acm.org/award_winner... #OTD
Today, let’s remember Richard Hamming, who was born #OTD 1915. Hamming received the 1968 #ACMTuringAward for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes. Read Hamming’s bio, here: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
HBD, Leslie Lamport! Lamport received the #ACMTuringAward in 2013 for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He explains how he formalized precise semantics of memory when multiple processes interact: youtu.be/iAqyufwYcHc
HBD, Ken Thompson! Thompson received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Dennis Ritchie, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the #UNIX operating system. Thompson explains creating UNIX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E2c...
Today in 1925, #ACMTuringAward recipient Douglas Engelbart was born. Engelbart received the Turing Award in 1997 for his inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
HBD to Edward Feigenbaum! Feigenbaum received the 1994 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering the design and construction of large scale #AI systems. He talks about editing the first textbook about AI, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfr2...
Where did 2025 leave the AI doomers? While #ACMTuringAward recipient Geoffrey Hinton is not sure what’s coming, Yoshua Bengio wishes he’d seen the risks sooner.
Learn more: buff.ly/npBlr2L #TechNews #AIdoomers
Today in 1934, #ACMTuringAward recipient Robin Milner was born. Milner received the Turing Award in 1991 for foundational contributions to programming languages, logic, and concurrency. Read more about his contributions and impressive career, here: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
Today in in 1944, #ACMTuringAward recipient Jim Gray was born. Gray received the award in 1998 for for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation. Gray talks database transactions in this 1988 clip: youtu.be/lGyMiW6PnKI
Happy Birthday to #ACMTuringAward recipient Tony Hoare! Hoare received the 1980 Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages.
Watch Hoare explain how he came to study computer science: youtu.be/9o5K9MU245w
HBD, Donald Knuth! Knuth received the 1974 #ACMTuringAward for major contributions to algorithms and programming languages, and for contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
Happy birthday to Leonard Adleman! In 2002, Adleman received the #ACMTuringAward with Ronald Rivest and Adi Shamir, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice. Adleman reflects on inventing DNA computing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhqf...
Happy birthday to Joseph Sifakis! In 2007, Sifakis received the #ACMTuringAward with Edmund Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology. He discusses his research focus shift: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoYz...
Happy birthday, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao! In 2000, Yao received the #ACMTuringAward for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
Happy birthday to Butler Lampson! Lampson received the 1992 #ACMTuringAward for contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation. More about him: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
Happy birthday to Robert Kahn! Kahn received the 2004 #ACMTuringAward with Vinton Cerf, for pioneering work on internetworking. Kahn explains the original motivations for the ARPANET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXTu...
Today in 1920, #ACMTuringAward recipient Kenneth Iverson was born. He received the 1979 award for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
HBD, Stephen Cook! Cook received the #ACMTuringAward in 1982 for his advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way.
Cook explains why the question of whether P=NP is so important, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rzs...
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Born on this day in 1924, Charles Bachman received the 1973 #ACMTuringAward for his outstanding contributions to database technology.
In this video, Bachman explains the project that led to the creation of the first database management system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OKi...
Happy Birthday, Geoffrey Hinton! Hinton received the 2018 #ACMTuringAward for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. In 2024, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
Today in 1924, John Backus, the inventor of FORTRAN, was born. He received the 1977 #ACMTuringAward. In this video, Backus describes the creation of FORTRAN, the first high level programming language: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpj...
HBD David Patterson! Patterson received the 2017 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. Read more about Patterson, here: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
HBD Shafi Goldwasser, 2012 #ACMTuringAward Laureate. Along with Silvio Micali, she received the award for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography. Goldwasser discusses “mental poker”: youtu.be/GWggHDrrXFM
HBD #ACMTuringAward recipient Barbara Liskov! Liskov was honored for her foundational contributions to programming languages and system design.
In this video, Liskov talks about her invention, data abstraction: youtu.be/FQyvTv81Qe8?...
Born #OTD in 1928, Peter Naur received the 2005 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
