{"id":495458,"date":"2018-07-18T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?p=495458"},"modified":"2018-07-18T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T17:59:53","slug":"acm-announces-creation-of-chuck-thacker-breakthrough-in-computing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/acm-announces-creation-of-chuck-thacker-breakthrough-in-computing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"ACM announces creation of Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-495551 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ChuckThacker_Carousel_07_2018_480x280-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ChuckThacker_Carousel_07_2018_480x280-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ChuckThacker_Carousel_07_2018_480x280-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ChuckThacker_Carousel_07_2018_480x280-480x280.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ChuckThacker_Carousel_07_2018_480x280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ACM \u2013 the Association for Computing Machinery \u2013 has created a new major award to honor 2009 A.M. Turing Laureate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/charles-p-thacker-visionary-computer-scientist\/\">Charles P. \u201cChuck\u201d Thacker<\/a>. The award honors Thacker\u2019s pioneering contributions to computing, considered by the community to have propelled the world in the early 1970s from a visionary idea to the reality of modern personal computing, providing people with an early glimpse of how computing would deeply influence us all. The award also celebrates Thacker\u2019s long-term inspirational mentorship of generations of computer scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The award features a prize of $100,000, with financial support provided by Microsoft. Recipients of the Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award are invited to deliver an address, the ACM Breakthrough Lecture, to highlight the program at any major ACM conference of the recipient\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p>This named merit award is intended to be biennial, though its frequency is anticipated to be somewhat fluid; the breakthrough nature of the work the award is intended to recognize does not happen very often and such contributions can take time to be recognized. If no candidate meets the criteria in a given year the award will be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The award is open to candidates who have made a surprising or disruptive leapfrog in computing ideas or technologies. Anyone may nominate and endorse a candidate and nominations will be solicited from the computing community in general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to see Chuck\u2019s creativity celebrated via an honor that calls out breakthrough thinking. What a great way to celebrate Chuck and his visionary leadership,\u201d said Eric Horvitz, technical fellow and director of Microsoft Research Labs.<\/p>\n<h3>Related:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/academic-programs\/\">Microsoft Academic Programs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACM \u2013 the Association for Computing Machinery \u2013 has created a new major award to honor 2009 A.M. Turing Laureate Charles P. \u201cChuck\u201d Thacker. 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