Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Michael Stonebraker! Stonebraker received the #ACMTuringAward in 2014 for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.

Stonebraker describes his work with others at Berkeley to develop INGRES: buff.ly/Q3RbbIF

HBD to Dana Stewart Scott! Scott received the 1976 #ACMTuringAward along with Michael O. Rabin, for their joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem," which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. buff.ly/sZ3FDK7

Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate John E. Hopcroft! Hopcroft received the #ACMTuringAward with Robert E. Tarjan in 1986 for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. Hopcroft explains landing his first academic job: buff.ly/DlagdwK

Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Martin Hellman! Martin Hellman received the #ACMTuringAward in 2015 for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key #cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method. buff.ly/1IpiXq2

#OTD in 1919, James Hardy Wilkinson was born. Wilkinson received the 1970 #ACMTuringAward for his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, his work in computations in linear algebra and "backward" error analysis. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

Happy Birthday, John Hennessy! Hennessy received the 2017 #ACMTuringAward with David Patterson for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.
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Happy Birthday, Avi Wigderson! Wigderson received the 2023 #ACMTuringAward for foundational contributions to the theory of computation, reshaping our understanding of randomness in computing, and decades of intellectual leadership in theoretical computer science. 🔗 buff.ly/ssmw71r

#OTD in 1941, Dennis M. Ritchie was born. Ritchie received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...