Sentences with phrase «turing award»

It will combine the decentralized ledger blockchain authored by Turing Award winner Silvio Micali with secure decentralized on - chain ledgerless TODA protocol co-authored by Toufi Saliba to deliver an integrated, high - performance packaged solution.

In 2011 Pearl won the Turing Award, computer science's highest honor, in large part for this work.

Thus far, 42 Nobel Laureates as well as a recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award have confirmed their participation in the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to physiology and medicine — more than ever before at a medicine meeting.

The reception was accompanied by a panel discussion featuring Turing Award Winner Vinton Cerf and Nobel Laureate in Physics William Phillipps who were joined by alumni Yeka Aponte (Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings) and Kristina Mallory (Heidelberg Laureate Forum).

Andrew Yao, a winner of the A.M. Turing Award for work in computer science, has also given up his U.S. citizenship.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed this week that Yang Chen Ning, 94, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, and Andrew Yao (Yao Qizhi), 70, the A.M. Turing Award winner in 2000, were recently inducted into the academy's ranks as domestic academicians rather than foreign.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Legion d'Honneur and 29 honorary degrees.

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«China is investing heavily in all aspects of information technology,» from quantum computing to chip design, says Raj Reddy, a Turing Award — winning AI pioneer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The following, done against the backdrop of the 50th annual Turing Award, an honor in computer science from the Association for Computing Machinery, has been edited for length and clarity.

It is a privilege to be here at Berkeley, which has produced so many Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award winners, astronauts, members of Congress, Olympic gold medalists....

IBM has too many innumerable achievements to its credits, 5 Nobel Prize winners, 6 Turing Awards & 5 National Medals of Science, 12 research labs throughout world, and an enviable record for most patents created for 22 consecutive years.

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Wolfram Research Hey, remember that $ 25,000 prize awarded by software company Wolfram Research last week for identifying the simplest «universal» theoretical computer, or Turing machine?

The Grand Prize of $ 100,000 and a Gold Medal has never been awarded, and remains reserved for the first computer whose responses are fully indistinguishable from a human's — the first computer that can truly «think» (at least, per Turing's definition).

In the meantime, the signing of a new five - year funding agreement awarding $ 1.5 million per year from the U.S. Department of Agricul - ture Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Anal - ysis (FIA) program to UNLV means good news for forests across the United States, which help reduce the effects of climate change.

His co-star Charles Dance, who plays Turing's boss Commander Denniston, said of Benedict: «If he doesn't win an award, or a big gong, or preferably a statue of a little gold man, I will be astonished.»

As with the Golden Globe nominations, Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch vie for the best actor award with competing portrayals of scientific geniuses: Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

Benedict Cumberbatch is most widely known for his leading role as the title character in the massive popular «Sherlock» series, but after this awards season he may be known more for his portrayl of Alan Turing in «The Imitation Game.»

The release announcing the award also mentions actors Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance and Mark Strong from the cast of Morten Tyldum's film about British mathematician Alan Turing (Cumberbatch), who broke the German Enigma Code in World War II but was later prosecuted for being gay.

Benedict received BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Award Best Actor nominations for his portrayal of Alan Turing in the multi award winning film «The Imitation Game» and a BAFTA nomination for his role as Richard III in the BBC Drama «The Hollow Crown&raAward Best Actor nominations for his portrayal of Alan Turing in the multi award winning film «The Imitation Game» and a BAFTA nomination for his role as Richard III in the BBC Drama «The Hollow Crown&raaward winning film «The Imitation Game» and a BAFTA nomination for his role as Richard III in the BBC Drama «The Hollow Crown».

Knightley thanked her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch for «being excellent» in his role as Alan Turing and the Hollywood Film Awards clearly agreed, honoring Cumberbatch with the Hollywood Actor Award for his turn as the openly gay mathematician and computer scientist.

Cumberbatch dedicated his award to Turing, saying, «He was and is a hero of all time.

Keira Knightley was honored with the Hollywood Supporting Actress Award for her role as Joan Clarke, a cryptanalyst who was part of Alan Turing's code - breaking team, in The Imitation Game.

His latest leading role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game has garnered a ton of award nominations and he's got a couple of big movies coming up in the next few years including Doctor Strange and Jungle Book: Origins.

While Cumberbatch is generating awards buzz for his performance, Knightley in contrast, was criticised by Turing historians who claimed she was too glamourous to play Joan.

Eva Meyer - Hermann has received a number of awards for her curatorial work, including the AICA Award from the Dutch section of the International Association of Art Critics and the Turing Art Grant.