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.

ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate John Hopcroft has received China’s highest honor, the Friendship Award, which is given each year to 50 foreign experts for outstanding contributions to China’s economic and social progress. Hopcroft, the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science, has lectured frequently in China and helped several Chinese universities upgrade their advanced teaching programs.

Cynthia Liem is an Assistant Professor in the Multimedia Computing Group at the Delft University of Technology. Trained as a concert pianist, her research focuses on music and multimedia information retrieval. Liem participated in the Rising Stars Symposium at the ACM Multimedia 2016 conference. “Music and multimedia are everywhere around us. Multimedia has the potential to engage us in impactful, immersive ways.”

Sam H. (Hyuk) Noh is Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS). He is a Professor and Head of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology in Korea, and has served on the committees of several ACM conferences in programming languages, systems and storage. “With the massive amount of data being produced, the market will keep growing, which means everyone involved can turn out to be winners.”

Malware is just one of a multitude of Internet voting threats. Former ACM president Barbara Simons, USACM Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein, and USACM Security Committee Chair Alec Yasinsac also point to phishing and Distributed Denial of Service attacks, as well as the neccessity of keeping ballots secret, making authentication difficult. Developing a secure system would require solving some major cybersecurity open problems.

For one week in December, millions of students around the world are introduced to the magic of computer science through games, coding puzzles, tutorials, and many other fun activities. Events are organized by local volunteers from schools, research institutions, and other groups. ACM, a parnter of Code.org, which launched Computer Science Education Week in 2009, invites you host an Hour of Code in your community.

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