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News Sep 18 2024

David A. Padua to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have named David A. Padua, Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. The Ken Kennedy Award recognizes groundbreaking achievements in parallel and high performance computing (HPC). Padua is […]

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News Aug 20 2024

“Future Cybersecurity Incidents Like CrowdStrike are Almost a Certainty,” asserts U.S. Policy Arm of Global Computing Society

The Association for Computing Machinery’s U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) has released a “Statement on Mass Cybersecurity Incidents Likely to Recur.” On July 18, 2024, CrowdStrike, a U.S.-based cybersecurity technology company, released a sensor configuration update which caused a global outage affecting an estimated 8.5 million computers. Several critical infrastructure sectors including airlines, 911 emergency […]

News Jun 18 2024

ACM Recognizes Innovators Who Solve Real World Problems

ACM celebrates individuals whose work as impacted datacenter networks, software, algorithms, and AI.

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