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As #IberoAmericanHeritageMonth comes to a close, ACM proudly thank our student chapters for their passion, hard work, and dedication to computing. 🌎

Our final stop is in Peru featuring chapters from University of Engineering and Technology and Universidad Católica San Pablo. 🖥️

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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

#AI #Maths #computing #career

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Today in #ComputingHistory, we celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay, 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. #OTD https://t.co/yYxQ2pqXRz

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Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Silvio Micali! Micali received the #ACMTuringAward 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://t.co/in0x3w7a2E

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On this day in 1931, 2001 #ACMTuringAward 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://t.co/TLLaAbrayr #OTD

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Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Michael Stonebraker! Stonebraker received the #ACMTuringAward 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://t.co/pyPLpXi88T

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Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Dana Stewart Scott! Scott received the 1976 #ACMTuringAward 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://t.co/Tka7xCV8yA

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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://t.co/AV7ez5hT2V

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

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Governments throughout the world urgently need to complete their digital transformation to deliver digital services that are secure, efficient, integrated, and resilient—as do companies and organizations.

This October, celebrate #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth by committing to strengthening cybersecurity in your organization to protect customers, communities, and critical infrastructure.

Learn more about the key pillars of modern government digital services to build a strategic approach to moving forward. https://t.co/csYklzM9Il

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In the latest edition of #AdvancesInComputing:

- 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://t.co/Ej85vPpKq4
#AR #AI #cybersecurity

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This week’s People of ACM highlights Altigran Soares da Silva, Professor, @UFAM_, member, ACM Global Engagement Board, and information retrieval expert. Read here: https://t.co/xGJRXEXHMt

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Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate John E. Hopcroft! Hopcroft received the #ACMTuringAward with Robert E. Tarjan in 1986 for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.

His work on formal languages and the analysis of algorithms has made John Hopcroft one of the handful of pioneering computer scientists who put the discipline on a firm theoretical foundation. Neither of his parents were high school graduates, but they instilled in him a love of learning and worked hard to ensure that he had the chance to obtain more education than either of them had.

Watch Hopcroft explain how he was hired for his first academic job, at Princeton, without having published a single paper: https://t.co/cxc9abnjV0

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Court settlements keep shaping data privacy one company at a time. Should norms be set that way? ACM's TechBrief on #DataPrivacy: https://t.co/lMTrhnSbLc

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ACM’s Expanding Regions Technology Policy Committee has submitted comments to the African Union’s Open Consultation on AI Governance and Regulation in Africa.https://t.co/B6CCWO01Cf

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What type of founders get investment more easily?
Check out the full interview with Lucy Guo, the first female billionaire startup founder and investor, here or wherever you get your podcast: https://t.co/b42MZddsLl

#ByteCast #ACM #investor #startup #AI

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October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, a time to celebrate the contributions people with disabilities bring to society.

Watch Blind accessibility advocate Chancey Fleet make a case for why people with disabilities should be more involved across every stage of AI development.

Check out the full article here: https://t.co/B8Dbks5Egh

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Is it time to let the machines do the work and just give our students our best wishes?

Check out the latest KV advice column featured in the ACM Substack series, "Queue: In Practice."

https://t.co/foMDFvH71W

#softwareengineering #computerscience #education

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Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Martin Hellman! Martin Hellman received the #ACMTuringAward in 2015 for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key #cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.

In this video, Martin Hellman discusses his Ph.D. thesis work, “Learning with Finite Memory.” He explains using a trick coin as an example: https://t.co/QxRDcSdEpa

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Meet the ACM Student Chapter at University of Monterrey and ACM-W Student Chapter at University of Brazil! 👩🏻‍💻 👩🏻‍🏫

As ACM continue to spotlight our student chapters for #IberoamericanHeritageMonth, watch the amazing ways they engage with their communities.