Month: March 2021
Alfred Aho Wins the 2020 ACM Turing Award
Alfred V. Aho, Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, has won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of computing.” Professor Aho is being recognized for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in highly influential books that educated generations of computer scientists.
How Do You Change the Face of the Entertainment Industry?
In her role as the programming director at Diverso, Columbia College junior Shailha Alam is trying to do just that.
The Languages That Defy Auto-Translate
Carl Vondrick Wins NSF Award
Carl Vondrick Wins NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Carl Vondrick has won the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award for his proposal program to develop machine perception systems that robustly detect and track objects even when they disappear from sight, thereby enabling machines to build spatial awareness of their surroundings.
‘Shark Tank’: Mark Cuban ‘Looks Up To’ the Founder of Hopscotch – So He Invested $550,000 in Her App That Teaches Kids to Code
Samantha John (SEAS ’09) took her first computer science class and started to love programming during her senior year. She launched Hopscotch, an app that teaches kids how to code by building games, in 2013 and turned her passion for programming into a profitable business.
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