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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with nearly 100,000 members, unites computing professionals, educators, and researchers from industry, academia, and government, to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges.

10/14/2026

Is AI a crisis or an opportunity for Maths?

Fields Medalist Terence Tao shares his thoughts in the 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium.

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Source: 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium

Today in , we celebrate , an international celebration of women in STEM. Ada Lovelace Day was established in 2009 to ...
10/13/2026

Today in , we celebrate , an international celebration of women in STEM. Ada Lovelace Day was established in 2009 to honor her legacy and highlight the many contributions of women in STEM. It strives to inspire future generations to pursue careers in these fields.

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published what is widely regarded as the first computer program. Lovelace recognized that a machine could follow instructions to solve complex problems and predicted that computers would do far more than calculations.

Her legacy continues to inspire. https://buff.ly/V8tN8M5

10/13/2026

Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Silvio Micali! Micali received the in 2012 along with Shafi Goldwasser, for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory.

In this video, Micali describes the familial roots of his interest in interactive proofs and introduces his work on zero knowledge proofs: https://buff.ly/dU3n7jB

On this day in 1931, 2001 recipient Ole-Johan Dahl was born. Ole-Johan Dahl received the ACM Turing Award with Kriste...
10/12/2026

On this day in 1931, 2001 recipient Ole-Johan Dahl was born. Ole-Johan Dahl received the ACM Turing Award 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.

SIMULA I was intended to be used both for describing complex systems and for programming simulations of their behavior. Today, object-oriented programming is the dominant style of programming for commercial and industrial applications. 🔗 https://buff.ly/fDSavPD

10/11/2026

Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Michael Stonebraker! Stonebraker received the in 2014 for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.

Stonebraker describes his work with Eugene Wong and others at Berkeley to develop the original version of INGRES, one of the earliest and most influential relational database management systems: https://buff.ly/Q3RbbIF

10/11/2026

Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Dana Stewart Scott! Scott received the 1976 along with Michael O. Rabin, for their joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field.

In this video, Dana Scott explains how he came to write a thesis on infinite dimensional geometry for Alonzo Church at Princeton: https://buff.ly/sZ3FDK7

In the latest edition of :- a proposal for a pervasive augmented reality civics space- reconstructing a cyber breach- d...
10/10/2026

In the latest edition of :

- a proposal for a pervasive augmented reality civics space
- reconstructing a cyber breach
- defeating the disembodiment of design in the AI age

and more.

Grab a copy now: https://buff.ly/0kxQ6DP

We interrupt your regular scheduled programming for a . You might have to take out a pencil and paper for this one. 😉 ...
10/09/2026

We interrupt your regular scheduled programming for a . You might have to take out a pencil and paper for this one. 😉 🔗 here for more: https://buff.ly/9HM3oxn




How many ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates did you spot?What a joy to see these computing luminaries interacting with a ne...
10/08/2026

How many ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates did you spot?

What a joy to see these computing luminaries interacting with a new generation of researchers at the 26th Heidelberg Laureate Forum!

If you haven't already, check out HLF's YouTube channel for highlighted conversations featuring some of the best minds in computing: https://buff.ly/vN0dzZN

Credit: HLF, Konstantina Kyriakoudi, Theodoros Trochatos, Camila Kolling, etc.

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