Celebrating 50 Years of the ACM Turing Award
During the next several months, ACM will celebrate 50 years of the Turing Award and the visionaries who have received it. Our aim is to highlight the significant impact of the contributions of the Turing Laureates on computing and society, to look ahead to the future of technology and innovation, and to help inspire the next generation of computer scientists to invent and dream.
Mehran Sahami on Providing CS Education for All
Stanford University's Mehran Sahami maintains that exposing students to computing early in their education is essential to their understanding of not just "programming" but of the world at large: "Learning CS helps students develop systemic thinking skills for problem solving, practice logical deduction, and learn to express themselves with greater precision and clarity."
Nominations Open for New Excellence in CS Teaching Awards
ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and Infosys Foundation USA announce the Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science. Up to 10 awards of $10,000 each will be given annually to recognize today's best teachers from around the world. Applications for nominations for the awards are now available. The deadline is November 1.
Meet P.R. Kumar
P.R. Kumar is a University Distinguished Professor and the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His recent research interests focus on energy systems, wireless networks, automated transportation, cyber-physical systems, and security of networks and systems. An ACM Fellow, he is a recipient of the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award. "We may be on the threshold of an exciting wireless era."
ACM and CSTA Applaud "Computer Science for All" Milestones
ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association praised the White House announcement of the launch of the CSforAll Consortium on September 14. The Consortium, with a membership of more than 180 organizations, will connect states, districts, and schools with computer science education curriculum and implementation partners, funders, and researchers.
Two ACM Members Win Prestigious MacArthur Fellowships
Subhash Khot, a theoretical computer scientist who has made significant contributions to computational complexity research, and Bill Thies, a computer scientist who has created communication and digital technologies to aid low-income communities, have been selected as 2016 MacArthur Fellows.
Meet Lynda Hardman
Lynda Hardman is president of Informatics Europe, and a member of the management team at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. She also serves on the Advisory Committee of ACM-W Europe. “We have a Catch-22 situation, where there are very few female role models for girls to identify with, so that they tend not to go into computing.”
New Journal: ACM Transactions on Social Computing
The new journal ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC) will cover theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research aspects of social computing. TSC particularly solicits research that designs, implements or studies systems that mediate social interactions among users, or that develops or studies theory or techniques for application in those systems.
Thirteen ACM Turing Laureates Participate in Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, which took place September 18 - 23, brought recipients of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science to Heidelberg, Germany, to participate in panel discussions, give lectures, and interact with promising young researchers. View lectures and panel discussion on HLF's website.
A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security
As modern medical devices evolve, so do the threats to their security and reliability. While the necessity to defend against these threats is real, hyperbole and/or mischaracterizations around them may lead to panic, desensitization, or perhaps worse, exploitation. In this video, M. Eric Johnson discusses "A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security,” a Review Article in the October 2016 Communications of the ACM.
Research for Practice: Real-world Applications of Cutting-edge Theory
“Research for Practice,” a regular feature in acmqueue, bridges the gap between theory and practice by applying learnings from recent cutting-edge research to the challenges practitioners face on a daily basis. In the latest issue, Camille Fournier presents three papers on distributed consensus systems on implementing Paxos and the easier-to-understand Raft. Joy Arulraj and Andrew Pavlo present three papers on the future impact of nonvolatile memory on DBMS architectures. Together, these papers illuminate how lessons from critical areas in storage and largescale services can be applied to building better software.
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