Happy Birthday to Alonzo Church. Born on June 14, 1903, Church helped establish the mathematical foundations of computer science through his work on lambda calculus, computability, and the Church–Turing thesis. His ideas continue to influence programming languages, algorithms, and our understanding of what computers can and cannot do.
HBD, Raj Reddy! Reddy received the 1994 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering the design and construction of large scale AI systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of AI tech. Reddy on his introduction to speech recognition technology: https://youtu.be/l0pBxEL-N-o?si=p89Sh_pXnGK85_fD
In this week’s People of ACM, we interview Sheelagh Carpendale, Professor, Simon Fraser University, and ACM Fellow. Carpendale discusses her early work in the arts, the current state of data visualization, as well as trends in the field. Read the full interview here: https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/sheelagh-carpendale
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Submit your Paper to the @ACM AI Leadership Summit in Atlanta, GA, USA
Papers should showcase cuttingedge ideas in AI.
4 pages, presented as posters and published in proceedings.
Deadline: 30 June
Date: 30 Aug — 2 Sep 2026
Details: https://aisummit26.acm.org/authors/papers/
🚀 New Speakers Added—
Check out the stellar lineup at the inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit! These award-winning researchers, practitioners, industry leaders, educators, and policymakers will be diving deep into how AI can be developed and deployed responsibly to advance science and society.
📢 Submit your papers by June 30 & register today to be part of the conversation: https://aisummit26.acm.org/attendees/registration/
💡 Speakers: Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Research), Ahmed Hassan (Mustafa Prize Laureate, ACM Fellow), Amanda Randles (ACM Prize in Computing recipient), Amandeep Singh Gill (United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology), Andrew Barto (ACM Turing Award Laureate), Ellen Zegura (ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow), Gabriela Ramos (former Assistant Director-General of UNESCO), Jaime Teevan (Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft), Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun (Purdue University),
Maria Giulia Dondero (Research Director at the F.R.S.-FNRS),
Markus Gross (Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and Chief Scientist at The Walt Disney Studios), Rodney Brooks (pioneering roboticist and AI researcher), Virginia Dignum (Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University), Yann LeCun (ACM Turing Award Laureate), Yi Zeng (founding Director of the Research Center for AI Ethics and Sustainable Development at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence).
Congratulations to Allen Liu, who received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Learning Theoretic Foundations for Understanding Quantum Systems,” toward a PhD earned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Liu’s thesis reshapes our understanding of quantum systems through perspectives in learning theory. The quantum computing community is still trying to unravel the far-reaching implications of his work.
Learn more: https://awards.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation
Honorable Mentions go to Gal Arnon for his dissertation “New Advancements in Interactive Oracle Proofs: Theory, Practice, and Limitations” toward a PhD earned at the Weizmann Institute of Science; and Rachit Nigam for his dissertation “Modular Abstractions for Efficient Hardware Design,” toward a PhD earned at Cornell University.
Bob Floyd was born #OTD in 1936. He received the 1978 #ACMTuringAward for having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, and for helping to found important subfields of computer science. https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/floyd_3720707.cfm
@ACM AI Leadership Summit needs student volunteers!
Student Volunteers get experince of event organisation and free registration!
Where? Atlanta, GA, USA
Date: 30 Aug — 2 Sep 2026
Deadline: 30 June
Details: https://aisummit26.acm.org/attendees/volunteers/
Submit your Paper to the @ACM AI Leadership Summit in Atlanta, GA, USA
Papers should showcase cuttingedge ideas in AI.
4 pages, presented as posters and published in proceedings.
Deadline: 30 June
Date: 30 Aug — 2 Sep 2026
Details: https://aisummit26.acm.org/authors/papers/
Happy Birthday, Sir Tim Berners-Lee! Berners-Lee received the 2016 #ACMTuringAward for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale. https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/berners-lee_8087960.cfm
Happy Birthday William Morton Kahan! Kahan received the 1989 #ACMTuringAward for his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis. He explains how he incorporated Solve, Integrate, and Matrix functions into HP’s programmable calculators: https://youtu.be/5mBw7tnRx1c
Happy Birthday, Whitfield Diffie! Diffie received the 2015 #ACMTuringAward for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.
Diffie says the counterculture of the 1960’s inspired his interest in cryptography. Watch him explain: https://youtu.be/d820zuDbYIg
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Meet this year's recipients of three prestigious technical awards from ACM!
Please join us in applauding their impactful innovations to global wireless standards, machine learning, and 3D generative AI! Learn more: https://awards.acm.org/ 🧵 (1/4)
Erdal Arikan, Professor, Bilkent University, receives the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for the discovery of channel polarization and the construction of polar codes—the first explicit, capacity-achieving codes with efficient encoding and decoding adopted in global wireless standards. (2/4)
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor, University of British Columbia, receives the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence and machine learning, focusing on applications to multiagent systems, heuristic algorithms, social impact, and market design. (3/4)
Ben Mildenhall, co-founder, World Labs, and Pratul Srinivasan, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, are the recipients of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for contributions to radiance field representations, 3D scene capture and rendering, and pioneering neural implicit representations and 3D generative AI. (4/4)
