Recent News
IEEE Computer Society Vice President for Technical and Conference Activities Paul Croll has been named the 2012 recipient of the Hans Karlsson Award, which commemorates achievement in computer standards.
Artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy, who proposed Lisp, time-sharing computer systems, and program correctness proofs, and is credited with coining the term “AI,” has died. McCarthy, a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University and a former professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was also an honoree in IEEE Intelligent Systems’ inaugural AI Hall of Fame. Read more
The IEEE Computer Society has expanded its webinar program to include professional development webinars for individuals, training webinars for organizations, and sponsored webinars for companies hoping to generate leads. Visit http://www.computer.org/webinars for more information. Read more
Cleve Moler, a mathematician and computational scientist specializing in numerical analysis, was selected this year’s winner of the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award. Moler was honored “for fundamental contributions to linear algebra, mathematical software, and enabling tools for computational science.” Read more
The IEEE Computer Society Press book Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing is being credited as making “a major contribution” toward understanding why women are steering clear of the computing field and gravitating to other sciences. Edited by Thomas J. Misa and available through co-publisher John Wiley & Sons. Read more
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