Why is it so important to understand computers as socio-technical systems? 👩💻 Listen to computer scientist Noshir Contractor share his insights. And don’t forget to follow ACM President Yannis Ioannidis as he meets inspiring ACM members around the world during his conference travels! #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

Today in #ComputingHistory in 1956, IBM released the first FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) manual, six months before the compiler was even ready. Developed under John Backus, FORTRAN introduced the idea that computers could be programmed in a high-level, human-readable language. The manual’s early release let scientists and engineers begin learning and preparing programs before they could actually run them, setting the stage for the 1957 debut of the revolutionary FORTRAN compiler, which transform

Happy Birthday, Silvio Micali! Micali received the #ACMTuringAward in 2012 along with Shafi Goldwasser, for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory. In this video, Micali describes the familial roots of his interest in interactive proofs and introduces his work on zero knowledge proofs: https://youtu.be/LXF882rEIj8 | ACM - Ass