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NEW YORK, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Collective[i]®, a recognized leader in AI-enabled digital sales transformation, today announced that Alfred Aho, Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Columbia University and the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award Laureate, is confirmed to participate in
Collective[i] Forecast, a series of live, virtual events, that features the world s preeminent leaders and innovators sharing their knowledge about the innovation that is disrupting and transforming how we work and live.
Professor Alfred Aho s work has been instrumental in developing the technology that allows humans to program the software that has transformed how we work and live. From the cars we drive to the cell phones we use, the technology that we rely on couldn t exist without the computer software that powers it. This software, although taken for granted by many, drives not only the present world we live in, but also
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This year’s Turing Award has gone to two men who helped create the foundation on which modern software is built.
Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho first met when doing their PhDs at Princeton University in the early 1960s; a time when computing machines were devices operated and programmed by a relatively small group of mathematicians and specialists.
But thanks to their pioneering work that began at Bell Labs in 1967 and went on for several decades, they managed to open up computers to a vast array of people who began to write software that now powers just about everything we equate with the modern world.