Barbara Liskov, professor at
@MIT
, receives the
@IEEEorg
Computer Society’s 2018 Computer Pioneer Award “for pioneering data abstraction, polymorphism, and support for fault tolerance and distributed computing in the programming languages CLU and Argus."
At first, they laughed at her.
Back then, there was hardware, mechanical, & aerospace engineering. But in the 1960s, software was hardly the stuff of serious engineering.
That's when Margaret Hamilton used software design to get Apollo 11 to the moon.
The scientist who invented the term "software engineering"
Margaret Hamilton, computer science pioneer, is credited with having coined the term "software engineering" while working on Apollo as head of the SE Division of the
@MIT
Instrumentation Lab.
"Little girls should be seen, not heard." So Susan Eggers was told.
Here's how a secretary of 18 years defied tradition--and became a computer scientist at age 47, developed SMT tech, and became the first woman ever to win computer architecture’s top award.
Margaret Martonosi receives the IEEE Computer Society 2018 Technical Achievement Award for “contributions to power-aware computing and energy-constrained mobile sensor networks.”
@margmartonosi
is a Professor of Computer Science at
@Princeton
.
When we came across Joma’s most popular YouTube video, “If
#Programming
Was An
#Anime
” which has over 4 million views, it was not only apparent that he was a seasoned
#programmer
, but had a unique vision for
#tech
related content:
@jomaoppa
.
@Google
Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page Named Recipients of the IEEE Computer Society 2018 Computer Pioneer Award: “For the creation of the Google search engine and leadership in creating ambitious products and research initiatives.”
What's Flutter? Tim Sneath, product manager for Flutter and Dart at Google, discusses what Flutter is, why it was created, and where Dart came from on SE Radio:
@timsneath
#tech
#computing
#stem
#technology
The market for
#QuantumComputing
continues to grow as it transcends from theoretical research to potential applications! Understand what's expected from this emerging technology and how it's expected to transform modern day computing @
#IEEE
Alex Petrov, author of
#Database
Internals explains the ins and outs of database storage
#engines
. What are they? How do they differ? What problems do they solve? Their strengths are more suited towards certain storage engine implementations:
#software
New on SE Radio: Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Aaron Patterson of GitHub about the Ruby language and how it works. They discuss the language virtual machine, concurrency, garbage collection, and JIT compilation. Have a listen!
#ieeecs
#seradio
@tenderlove
Congratulations to 2023 TCSE Distinguished Award winners,
@TayanaConte
, Laura Dillon,
@fabiopalomba3
,
@patricia_lago
, and Victor Basili! Celebrate with us and read more about each award @
50 Years of Software: It's been breathtaking. Just five decades ago, there wasn't even a school for software. "You were on your own," recalls one pioneer. Read about the early days and the challenges ahead, in a special issue of our Software magazine.
Visualization feature: “Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow"
@kanitw
of
@uwdata
@UW
& colleagues earned
@IEEEorg
VAST 2017 Best Paper for presenting a graph visualization tool as part of
@TensorFlow
, an open-source platform.
Meet Gustavo Pinto, this week's
#VolunteerHighlight
: "Contributing to
#IEEE
Computer Society has a tremendous impact on the dissemination of your scientific results to a broader audience." -
@gustavopinto
More
#CSVolunteering
Opportunities Here:
Dr. Oyekunle Olukotun, professor at
@Stanford
, wins
@IEEEorg
Computer Society 2018 Harry H. Goode Award "for fundamental and sustained effort to create and leverage chip-multiprocessors.” He's a well-known pioneer in multicore processor design.
The first female
@IBM
Fellow and woman to win the Turing Award, Frances Allen, died yesterday, 4 August 2020, the day of her 88th birthday. Despite the tragedy, Fran's impact will continue to be an inspiration for future generations of
#technologists
:
At
@cvpr2019
,
@magicleap
provided listeners with a deep dive into the four main ingredients in creating an immersive spatial computing platform: head pose tracking, world reconstruction, eye tracking, and hand tracking.
#cvpr2019
#cvpr
Congratulations to Alan Edelman, professor of applied mathematics at
@MIT
, who has been selected to receive the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award.
#ieeecs
#julialang
@AlanEdelman1
Congratulations to Vivek Sarkar of Georgia Institute of
#Technology
for being chosen as the recipient of the 2020 ACM/
#IEEECS
Ken Kennedy Award! In addition to his contributions to programmability in parallel
#computing
, he has displayed great leadership:
It's here! Our 2019 Top 10 Tech Trends forecast. See what's in and what's out. "We are excited about our predictions and the bets we have made for 2019’s technology trends," says Dejan Milojicic of
@HPE
, who's IEEE Computer Society past president (2014).
Future tech leaders in Africa: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
@IEEE_JKUAT
IEEE student branch leadership pictured left to right: Westley Ndunya, chairperson; Rosemary Litunya, vice chairperson; and Koi Anyango, treasurer.
Moti Yung of
@Columbia
& a fellow of
@IEEEorg
and
@TheOfficialACM
receives our 2018 W. Wallace McDowell Award "for innovative contributions to computer and network security, predicting both attack scenarios & design needs in this important evolving era.”
Daniel P. Siewiorek, Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award.
@carnegiemellon
So proud to recognize Prof. Onur Mutlu
@ETH
for winning the 2020 IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for innovative and impactful contributions to computer memory systems.
They're here: Our annual Top Tech Trends, for 2018. They're now getting widespread media coverage in TV & print. Our analysis identifies the "top-trending technologies that hold extensive disruptive potential for 2018," says CS President Jean-Luc Gaudiot.
Bjarne Stroustrup, a managing director of
@MorganStanley
& visiting prof at
@Columbia
, is recognized “for bringing object-oriented programming and generic programming to the mainstream with his design and implementation of the C++ programming language.”
We are excited for our Tech MD Bjarne Stroustrup to receive the IEEE
@ComputerSociety
's 2018 Computer Pioneer Award for his contributions to electronic computing with the design and implementation of the C++ programming language.
John Hennessy (L), former
@Stanford
prez & now chair of
@Google
parent Alphabet, and David Patterson, retd prof of
@UCBerkeley
& Google Dist. Engr, won $1M Turing Prize this year. They pose with Turing bust at
@iscaconf
where they gave Turing Lecture.
Congratulations to Prof. Onur Mutlu! He has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2020 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, “for innovative and impactful contributions to computer memory systems.”
#tech
#technology
#computing
#ieee
Gail Murphy, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Vice-President Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia, receives the IEEE Computer Society’s 2018 Harlan D. Mills Award this week at
@ASEConf2018
.
@gail_murphy
@ubc
"I love to build robots," Henrik Christensen
@hiskov
of
@UCSanDiego
tells IEEE IRC2018 & ICSC2018. "I would like to have a robot that would allow me to get out of bed...get me breakfast and help me prepare for social functions. We’re not there yet."
Software engineers now ensure Big Auto's success: Cars run on code as much as gas. "The automotive industry is fundamentally changing by becoming software intensive, rather than mechanically intensive," Finland's
@UniOulu
researchers say in
@ieeesoftware
.
Congratulations to Dr. David B. Kirk, former chief scientist and vice president of architecture at
@nvidia
, who has been named recipient of the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.
#ieeecs
Dr. Ravi Nair of the
@IBMWatson
Research Center is selected to receive the 2018
@IEEEorg
Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award, which honors significant contributions in the field of computer microarchitecture and compiler code generation.
#AI
Like the
#InternetOfThings
(
#IoT
),
#DigitalTwins
lie at the heart of support for manufacturing through
#cyberphysical
systems! We know them to be representations of objects in the real world, but how do we tame their complexity? Read More Here:
You're Invited! The
#IEEE
InTech Forum will explore how
#ComputerScience
and
#Engineering
professionals are providing aid in the
#FightAgainstCOVID19
. This forum is about action and will provide insights on how to prepare your organization for the future:
#AI
and
#IoT
are laying the foundation for
#smarter
, more efficient buildings. In this article,
#IEEE
shares insights from Roberto Saracco, IEEE Senior Member on how this new approach is creating a brighter future for all:
#CleanTechSolutions
Join Kathy Land, President of
#IEEE
, for a Master Class presentation on Software Development Methodologies LIVE this Sunday, 18 April, 2021 at 20.00 (GMT +3) / 12.00 Central Time:
Mark your calendars! The 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) will be held May 25-31 in Montreal, Canada.
#ieeecs
#icse
#software
@icse2019
The
@cvpr2019
Conference draws record paper submissions at 5,160 -- a 56% increase over 2018. At this rate, "we'd have 10.8 billion submitted papers in 2028: That's one for every man, woman, and child," says Program Chair Derek Hoiem.
#ieeecs
#cvpr2019
The featured Micro article explores what codesign means in a
#QuantumComputing
setting, gives examples of its value to QC, and proposes key attributes of QC codesign approaches going forward:
What Game Developers Should Know
Games software engineering, although often neglected in curricula, poses huge challenges such as time to market, complexity, collaborative development, and performance.
Congratulations to 2021 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award recipient ,Josep Torrellas, for "contributions to energy efficient and programmable shared-memory multiprocessor architectures.”
#programming
#ieeecs
#ieee
#tech
Our article & featured research from
@IEEEorg
Annals of the History of Computing about "The Epic Journey of Women in Computing: Advances, Setbacks, and an Uncertain Future" are a finalist in 2018
@LAPressClub
Awards. It's 1 of 2 nominations.
#womenintech
Read our interview with teaching award winner Robert R. Kessler who gave
@UUtah
a video game degree program. Now it's among the best in the world. “Students loved it from day one,” he says.
#ieeecs
#videogames
#gaming
#utah
Congratulations to Susan H. Rodger of
@DukeU
, who was named 2019 recipient of the Taylor L. Booth Education Award “for leadership in undergraduate & K-12 computer-science education, and for broadening participation of women in computing.”
#ieeecs
#Python
continues to dominate new technologies, but has its limits according to IEEE Spectrum's annual interactive rankings of the top programming languages.
@IEEESpectrum
@IEEEorg
‘Nobel Prize for Computing’: Turing Award winners John Hennessy, former president of
@Stanford
, & David Patterson, retd prof of
@UCBerkeley
, will give livestream lecture June 4 about ‘new golden age’ for computer architecture during
@isca2018
. Learn more:
Prepare for the
#FutureofTech
with the
#IEEECS
Technology Predictions Report! Download the report and see which 19 innovations and advancements are expected to gain more traction and impact this year. Download the report @
#IEEE
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics: In the midst of the important genomic variants associated to the susceptibility and resistance to complex diseases, Copy Number Variations (CNV) has emerged as a prevalent class of structural variation.
Leila De Floriani, a full professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and a member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors, is voted the Computer Society’s 2019 President-Elect (2020 President). See other election results:
@UofMaryland
Not your usual Top 10 list:
@Google
team asks experts on its Google Online Security Blog for safety tips to everyday users. It comes up with 152 things to know. See lists in new Computer Society research. By Sunny Consolvo, Robert W. Reeder,
@iulia_ion
Congratulations to Dr. Johannes Doerfert! He is one of the three awardees who has received the
#IEEECS
Technical Community on High Performance Computing Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in HPC! Read more @
#IEEE
Congratulations to these young scholars! The Computer Society announces the winners of 2018 Lance Stafford Larson Student Writing Awards. Read about this impressive group:
#ieeecs
#awards
Join us at the
#IEEE
ICICLE Learning
#Engineering
conference, CMU Pittsburgh, July 24-26, 2023! Learn from and network with fellow professionals in learning engineering. Register now @
#ICICLE2023
"Alexa, can I trust you?" Recent news reveal that
@Google
Home,
@Apple
's Siri, and
@amazon
's Alexa aren’t always trustworthy. Researchers from
@usnistgov
& Korea explore security and privacy concerns associated with intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs).
The
#IEEE
Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS) is proud to announce its first Journal Impact Factor of 5.9! Learn more about OJ-CS and submit your article today @