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2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun will deliver the Turing Lecture at ACM’s Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). Hinton’s talk, titled “The Deep Learning Revolution” and LeCun’s talk, titled “The Deep Learning Revolution: The Sequel,” will be presented on Sunday, June 23 from 5:15-6:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST). The...
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ACM has named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Working independently and together, Hinton, LeCun and Bengio developed conceptual foundations for the field, identified surprising phenomena through experiments, and contributed engineering advances...
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6th Mediterranean Students Days @ Campus SophiaTech, February 12 – 14, 2018   The partners of the new SophiaTech Campus, Inria, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS (I3S, LEAT) and the Labex UCN@Sophia are organizing the fifth edition of the « Mediterranean Days@Campus SophiaTech ». They will be held on the Campus from February 12th till...
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6th Mediterranean Students Days @ Campus SophiaTech, February 12 – 14, 2018   The partners of the new SophiaTech Campus, Inria, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS (I3S, LEAT) and the Labex UCN@Sophia are organizing the fifth edition of the « Mediterranean Days@Campus SophiaTech ». They will be held on the Campus from February 12th till...
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2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony This week we’re recognizing theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, Christos Papadimitriou. Papadimitriou was a key player in the development of NP total search problems. His work on the Nash Equilibrium helped to develop algorithmic game theory, involving the convergence of computer science and...
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Professor Paul Spirakis has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of the Editorial Board of the renowned journal Theoretical Computer Science – Track A (Algorithms, Complexity, Automata and Games) of Elsevier. Here is the relevant announcement. Theoretical Computer Science is among the premier journals in its field.
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  Today’s Topic: 2013 ACM Turing Award Goes to Leslie Lamport for Advancing Reliability and Consistency of Computing Systems Tuesday, March 18, 2014 ACM has named Leslie Lamport, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, the recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed...
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