Why is it so important to understand computers as socio-technical systems? 👩💻 Listen to computer scientist Noshir Contractor share his insights. And don’t forget to follow ACM President Yannis Ioannidis as he meets inspiring ACM members around the world during his conference travels! #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

Happy Birthday, Judea Pearl! Pearl received the 2011 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning. In this video, Pearl reflects on how his early education in Tel Aviv sparked his love of science and discovery. Many of his teachers, some as early as grade school, were Jewish professors who had been forced out of German universities in the 1930s under Nazi antisemitic laws, years before the Ho

Happy Birthday, John E. Hopcroft! Hopcroft received the #ACMTuringAward with Robert E. Tarjan in 1986 for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. Hopcroft’s work on graph algorithms was not just theoretical analysis, it also included synthesis. He explored efficient structures for storing data in a computer, and created efficient algorithms for solving the problems they could represent. This work, new and exciting at the time, is now part of the sta

Happy Birthday, Martin Hellman! Martin Hellman received the #ACMTuringAward in 2015 for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key #cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method. In this video, Martin Hellman discusses his Ph.D. thesis work, “Learning with Finite Memory.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVSICLdrhM&t=2s | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

Watch 2019 Turing Award Recipient Ed Catmull discuss LucasFilm. Full lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPXBnJWai8 | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery