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ACM HONORS INTERNATIONAL LEADERS WHO HELPED ADVANCE COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

ACM has honored the achievements of leaders from international academic and community organizations who helped build the infrastructure of computer science as a critical discipline in the digital era. As innovators, overseers and educators in their respective positions and institutions, they made possible the...

PEOPLE OF ACM: YOELLE MAAREK

Yoelle Maarek heads Yahoo Labs in Israel and India, and is a Vice President at Yahoo. Her team conducts research activities impacting products such as Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! Search. Previously, as Director of the Google Haifa Engineering Center, which she opened in 2006, she led the...

ACM HONORS COMPUTING INNOVATORS WHO ARE CHANGING THE WORLD

ACM has announced the winners of four prestigious awards for their innovations in computing technology. These innovators have made significant contributions that enable computer science to solve real-world challenges. The awards reflect achievements in computer vision, multiprocessor programming, computer science...

PEOPLE OF ACM: PEOPLE OF ACM: BEN SHNEIDERMAN

Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS,...

DAVID BLEI NAMED 2013 ACM-INFOSYS FOUNDATION AWARD RECIPIENT FOR MACHINE LEARNING ADVANCES

ACM and the Infosys Foundation have named David Blei the recipient of the 2013 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences. He initiated an approach to analyzing large collections of data using innovative statistical methods, known as "topic modeling," that make it possible to organize and summarize...

ACM LAUNCHES NEW E-BOOKS SERIES

ACM has launched a new series, ACM Books, aimed at filling the need for outstanding computer science books. It will complement other recent additions to scientific publications, but will present its computing topics in far greater depth...

PEOPLE OF ACM: CALVIN C. (KELLY) GOTLIEB

Calvin C. (Kelly) Gotlieb, called the "Father of Computing" in Canada, was a member of the first Canadian team to design and construct digital computers and to provide computing services. He co-founded the Computation Centre at the University of Toronto, where he established the first university...

PEOPLE OF ACM: KATE MATSUDAIRA

Kate Matsudaira is founder of her own company, popforms. Prior to that, she worked in engineering leadership roles at companies such as Decide, SEOmoz, and Amazon. She has also worked at large companies including Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Her extensive management experience has...

PEOPLE OF ACM: MARIE-PAULE CANI

Marie-Paule Cani is professor of Computer Science at Grenoble Institute of Technology, where she leads a joint research group between Inria, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and three local universities. With a background in Shape Modeling and Computer Animation, she has contributed to...

PEOPLE OF ACM: SILVIO MICALI

Silvio Micali, the Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), is a recipient (with Shafi Goldwasser)...