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. Our celebration will culminate with a conference June 23 - 24, 2017 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco.

The number of software job openings is at an all-time high, and this is not likely to slow. Yet students are failing to learn the skills needed to fill these positions, according to University of Washington's Andrew J. Ko and Purdue University's Susanne Hambrusch. They point to computing education research as essential in figuring out how to teach coding and other skills more effectively.

The ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences has been renamed the ACM Prize in Computing. The award recognizes computing professionals in the early to middle stages of their careers. Infosys will continue to fund the award, whose cash prize has been increased to $250,000. In addition, recipients will now be invited to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, an annual networking event for mathematicians and computing scientists.

Margaret Burnett is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. She began her career in industry, where she was the first woman software developer hired at Procter & Gamble Ivorydale. She co-founded the area of end-user software engineering, and was a keynote speaker at FSE 2016. “Through theories that ‘connect the dots’ of seemingly dissimilar research projects, we can accelerate our ability to take the kinds of leaps forward in software engineering that today’s software demands.”

Young researchers at all phases of their careers (undergrad, PhD or postdoc) are encouraged to apply for the next Heidelberg Laureate Forum, for a chance to personally interact with laureates of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics and computer science, including the ACM A.M. Turing Award. HLF, which includes scientific, social and outreach activities in an informal atmosphere, takes place September 24 to 29, 2017. Applications are due February 14, 2017.

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.

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.”

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.

The 2016-17 ACM NDC Study of non-Ph.D. granting departments in computing at 4-year institutions is now open. NDC is the only survey producing timely data on enrollment, degree production, student body composition, and faculty salaries/demographics that can help benchmark your institution/program(s). See 2015-16 results here. If your unit has a program in CS, CE, IS, IT, and/or SE but you haven't received an invitation to participate, email [email protected].

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