The Association for Computing Machinery will award its 2002 A.M. Turing Award to Leonard L. Adleman, Ronald L. Rivest, and Adi Shamir for their contributions to public-key cryptography. In 1977 ...

Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness Avi Wigderson helped prove that randomness is not required for efficient computation.

A professor of computer science explains why the original limitations of Turing Machines still govern the age of advanced AI like ChatGPT.

Princeton graduate alumnus Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizing his profound contributions to the mathematical underpinnings ...

But their research has directly sought to answer Turing's 1947 call for a machine that “can learn from experience” — which Sutton describes as “arguably the essential idea of reinforcement ...

But their research has directly sought to answer Turing's 1947 call for a machine that “can learn from experience” — which Sutton describes as “arguably the essential idea of reinforcement ...

Jack Dongarra's software unlocked new abilities in multimillion-dollar machines that sprawl across data centers the size of tennis courts.

Alan Turing was not a well known figure during his lifetime. But today he is famous for being an eccentric yet passionate British mathematician, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial ...

Thanks to the tipster who let us know that Barbara Liskov, the first woman to earn a PhD in computer science, has been awarded the Turing Award, described as the “Nobel Prize in computing ...