2025-04-25 03:08:10
A legendary South Korean cartoonist decided to embrace generative AI. By training an AI model with digital archives of his essays, interviews, and texts from his comics, he hopes to obtain immortality -- for himself as an artist and his characters.
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2025-04-23 23:00:50
Meet the 2025-2026 #ACMAthenaLecturer, Cordelia Schmid! Research Director at @inria , Schmid is recognized for outstanding contributions to computer vision in image retrieval, object recognition, and video understanding. Félicitations! https://bit.ly/4iy0IQl
2025-04-23 17:45:07
#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1968, the first U.S. software patent was granted. Patent No. 3,380,029 was issued to Martin Goetz for a method of sorting data on a computer—a milestone in recognizing software as intellectual property.
2025-04-23 02:00:30
In this week's #PeopleOfACM profile we interview Rachid Guerraoui, a Professor at EPFL, expert in distributed computing, and recipient of the inaugural ACM Luiz André Barroso Award. Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/3RY4PdA
2025-04-22 22:20:02
On this day in 1941, Amir Pnueli was born. He received the 1996 #ACMTuringAward for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and system verification: https://bit.ly/3vf1G19
2025-04-20 22:25:01
#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1998, the first iMac was released. The iMac was a breakthrough in personal computing. Its colorful, all-in-one design stood out from the typical beige PCs of the time, helping to revive Apple’s brand and reshape the tech landscape.