alphadogg writes: Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, whose names have been linked since their seminal paper introduced the concepts of public key encryption and digital signatures some 40 years ago, have been named winners of the $1M A.M. Turing Award for 2015 (a.k.a., the Nobel Prize of Computin.
MIT seniors Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li are recipients of this year's prestigious Marshall Scholarship program. They will pursue graduate studies in the UK.
Rupert Li, an MIT undergraduate student studying mathematics, and Audrey Xie, an undergrad studying mathematics and computer science, have been awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarships for their research into discrete math and neural networks.
Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won fellowships from the U.S. State Department's Fulbright U.S. Student Program to pursue grants overseas in 2023-24. For four years in a row, MIT has been named a Fulbright Top-Producing Institution.