ACM Prize in Computing Honors Matei Zaharia for Foundational Contributions to Data and Machine Learning Systems

NEW YORK, April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Matei Zaharia as the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for his visionary development of ...

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...
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University of Washington grad receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for developing machine learning algorithms to improve mental health

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Ashish Sharma is the recipient of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental ...