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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · May 28

We are at the 📍 Hilton Baltimore for the Society for Scholarly Publishing 47th Annual Meeting!

Drop by booth 310 to hear more about our transition to #OpenAccess and how #ACMOpen can support your institution.

Can't make it? Learn more about ACM Open: 🔗 bit.ly/3YPsGQB

#Computing #SSP2025

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 7h

Congratulations to Saman Amarasinghe, Professor at MIT, named the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award recipient! 🎉 He is honored for pioneering high-performance domain-specific languages, exceptional mentorship, and service advancing the global computing community.

Learn more: awards.acm.org/kennedy

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 1d

Are we in a "post-gigabit era?" For CACM, Micah D. Beck discusses how a new analysis of network metrics ignores techniques that combine storage and computation with data transmission to improve the quality of many network-constrained applications.

Read more: buff.ly/FoVvkaH

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 1d

At ACM #MobiCom, ACM President Yannis Ioannidis asked Temple University Associate Professor Yan Wang what changes he’d like to see at ACM.

What about you? Share your thoughts with us during #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth—and beyond!

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 2d

In celebration of #HispanicHeritageMonth, ACM highlighting Gonzalo Navarro.
Gonzalo Navarro is an ACM Fellow and a Professor at the University of Chile. He has made significant contributions in areas of compressed data structure, text searches, graph/metric databases, and information retrieval.

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 2d

From inventory management to recipe inspiration, AI is taking kitchens by storm. Learn how it's going to revolutionize how we eat via CACM: buff.ly/Jc9nify

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 2d

Happy Birthday to #ACMTuringAward recipient Silvio Micali!
In this video, Micali describes the familial roots of his interest in interactive proofs and introduces his work on zero knowledge proofs: youtu.be/LXF882rEIj8

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 3d

Google has just released a technical report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. To learn why it's significant, read here: buff.ly/uJXM7HR

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 3d

Born on this day in 1931, Ole-Johan Dahl received the 2001 #ACMTuringAward with Kristen Nygaard for ideas fundamental to the emergence of object-oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 4d

Happy Birthday, Michael Stonebraker! Stonebraker received the 2014 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems. More on his many contributions to computing, here: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 4d

“We don’t know what makes a language model tick,” she said. “If we have these models everywhere, we should understand what they’re doing.”

Check out Quanta's interview with Naomi Saphra about why it’s hard to understand language models and more.

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 4d

Happy Birthday Dana Stewart Scott! Scott received the 1976 #ACMTuringAward along with Michael O. Rabin, for their joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 5d

Listen to ACM Athena Lecturer and ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award recipient Maja Matarić discuss the rise of measurably helpful companion robots. Full episode here or wherever you get your podcast: learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep7...

#ACMBytecast #computing

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 6d

Lesson 2 from 2019 Turing Award Recipient Pat Hanrahan's Turing Lecture: Rendering. Full lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPX...

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 6d

How will AI impact devices worn on the body and embedded in vehicles? Find out in this week’s People of ACM profile as we interview Guoliang Xing, a Professor and Director of the AIoT Lab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Read the full article here:

People of ACM - Guoliang Xing

Guoliang Xing is a Professor and Director of the AIoT Lab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His research spans embedded AI, AI for health, autonomous driving, and cyber-physical systems.…

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 7d

Why is it so important to understand computers as socio-technical systems? 👩💻
Listen to computer scientist Noshir Contractor share his insights.

Follow our special series "ACM President on the road" to celebrate #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth!

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 8d

Thanks to The New York Times for featuring the ACM A.M. Turing Prize! Indeed, beyond the Nobel Prizes, "there are plenty of other prizes scientists and mathematicians can compete for."

Learn more: buff.ly/NAhXVmy

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 8d

HBD, John E. Hopcroft! Hopcroft received the 1986 #ACMTuringAward with Robert E. Tarjan, for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. Watch Hopcroft explain how he was hired for his first academic job: youtu.be/aCs1SqHUdzk?...

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 9d

"Running those GenAI models efficiently requires GPUs, rather than CPUs, and GPUs are more power hungry." - Beaudouin-Lafon, chair of the ACM Europe Technology Policy Council.

Learn more about the environmental cost of Gen AI tools & how to decrease the negative impact: buff.ly/DQ6PoVY #TechNews

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 11d

Listen to 2024 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Torsten Hoefler share how he tries to bridge academia and industry for societal impact . Full episode here or wherever you get your podcast: learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep7...

#ACMByteCast #computing

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 12d

Nominations are open for the 2026 CRA Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award! The award recognizes full-time faculty members at North American academic institutions who have provided exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences and guidance. Due Nov 21, 2025: buff.ly/BL6HABm

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 13d

HBD, Martin Hellman! Hellman received the #ACMTuringAward in 2015 for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key #cryptography and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method. Watch him explain the idea behind his Ph.D. dissertation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVS...

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 14d

🎉 Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships!

Ana Veroneze Solórzano – Northeastern University
Yafan Huang – The University of Iowa
Honorable Mention: Aristotle Martin – Duke University

👏 Learn more: buff.ly/MdF3AMl

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 14d

It’s #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth! What better way to celebrate than hitting the road?

Introducing our special video series “ACM President on the Road," where ACM President Yannis Ioannidis meets amazing ACM members worldwide during his conference travels.

Join the journey with #ACMGoesGlobal!

Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 14d

In celebration of #HispanicHeritageMonth, ACM is highlighting Trilce Estrada.
Trilce Estrada is an Associate Professor and Director of the Data Science Laboratory at the University of New Mexico. Her interests are machine learning, big data and their applications to interdisciplinary problems.

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 15d

Watch 2019 Turing Award Recipient Pat Hanrahan talk about CGI movies. Full lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPX...