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🎓 Congrats to Ashish Sharma, @UW on receiving the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental Health and Well Being." 👏 Honorable Mentions: Alexander Kelley, @UofIllinois Sewon Min, @UCBerkeley

Want to keep up with what’s happening in #computing? Our popular #newsletter, "Advances in Computing," is now available on Substack. Scan QR code to subscribe—and share it with a friend! buff.ly/VYNHtBx

➡️ On January 1, 2026, ACM goes fully #OpenAccess. To support the future of Open research, ACM is introducing ACM Digital Library #Premium: Seamless research access, deeper impact insights, and a streamlined user experience 👇 Start your Premium journey: bit.ly/477HDlJ

🌍 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling! A 26-member team has been awarded the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project, “Computing the Full Earth System at 1 km Resolution.” This marks a major milestone—the first-ever full Earth Simulation at…

🚨 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winners! An eight-member U.S. team has won the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize for “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone.” 🌟 Honorable Mention: A 10-member team…

In this week’s People of ACM, we speak with Worawan Diaz Carballo, who specializes in high performance computing and computer science education. Diaz Carballo is an Assistant Professor @thammasat_uni, Thailand and is active with ACM HPC Summer Schools @BSC_CNS. Read here:…

Digital ID is rising fast. So is the tension between safeguarding minors and preserving adult access. Join ACM Europe TPC as experts unpack Europe’s path to scalable Age Identification Apps and the lessons emerging worldwide. Register now: buff.ly/Wi34XYl

💬 Join ACM’s Reddit AMA on Government Digital Transformation 📅 Nov 25, 2025 | 1 PM EDT With “TechBrief” co-authors Carlos E. Jimenez-Gomez & Shrinivass A. B Ask your questions live at reddit.com/r/IAmA

Have you started reading This Is for Everyone? We are excited to share that computer scientist @marlene_zw , Senior Developer Advocate at @Microsoft and Chair of the @theofficialACM Practitioner Board, will lead the discussion on Dec 28, 2025! To RSVP to the virtual party, scan…

Jason Edward Lewis is Hawaiian & Samoan. His area of expertise is on Indigenous futures and digital media. Besides the many amazing things he does, Lewis is currently a Professor of Computation Arts at the Concordia University in Montreal. Meet Lewis and other outstanding…

👏 Congrats to the 2025 #QEPrize winners for pioneering Modern Machine Learning— including #ACMTuringLaureates Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton & Yann LeCun, #ACMFellows Fei-Fei Li and Bill Dally, along w/ John Hopfield (Princeton) & Jensen Huang (NVIDIA). buff.ly/zfBjzIo

Happy Birthday David Patterson! Patterson received the 2017 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. Read more about Patterson, here:…

Happy #NAIHM ! IndigeSTEAM is a Canadian organization committed to providing Indigenous-led and educational opportunities for Indigenous youth. It offers in-person and online workshops for both young and adult Indigenous people interested in STEM. Check out the amazing things…

HBD Shafi Goldwasser, 2012 #ACMTuringAward Laureate. Along with Silvio Micali, she received the award for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography. Goldwasser discusses “mental poker”: youtu.be/GWggHDrrXFM

🚀 Young Researchers: Apply for the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum! Join 200 top minds in math and computer science to meet Turing Award and Fields Medal laureates in Heidelberg, Germany. When: Sept 13–18, 2026 Apply by Feb 11, 2026 Email [email protected] for ACM code Learn more…

“A model like ACM Open only works if institutions support it.” But how did ACM ensure institutional support for our transition to a fully #OpenAccess publishing model? Find out in this @researchinfo article by Scott Delman, ACM’s Director of Communications:…

Thrilled to join @TheOfficialACM and my co-author for a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Digital Governance and Tech Transformation. Date: Nov 25 Topic: The impact of our latest Tech Brief on government service and future steps for digital equality. See you all soon at AMA...

Meet Mikaela Jade, a Cabrogal woman of the Dhraug-speaking nation of Australia. Jade is the founder and current CEO of Indigital, an tech-edu company that integrates Indigenous knowledge, environmentalism, and technology to foster a trusted and positive connection between…

Have you heard about Advancing Indigenous People in STEM (AISES)? AISES is a nonprofit organization that works to increase representation for Indigenous people in the STEM field. They offer resources for college students such as mentorship, leadership, and research programs.…

Slime mold has been around for 600 million, and the team behind a new startup wants to translate the organism’s biological superpowers into algorithms that might help optimize city systems worldwide. buff.ly/vWrdRa1

Did you catch this blog post from ACM’s Director of Publications? → What Does Transparency in #OpenAccess Really Mean, and Why Does It Matter Now More Than Ever? 📖 Read more: bit.ly/3L3cPKe @chsconf