{"593132":{"#nid":"593132","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Computing Faculty Invited to Celebrate Half a Century of Computing\u0027s Highest Honor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA group of Georgia Tech faculty were invited to attend the Association for Computing Machinery\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.acm.org\/turing-award-50\u0022\u003ECelebration of 50 years of the A.M. Turing Award\u003C\/a\u003E on June 23-24 in San Francisco, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThose attending included School of Computer Science Chair \u003Cstrong\u003ELance\u0026nbsp;Fortnow\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Interactive Computing faculty members \u003Cstrong\u003ELauren Wilcox\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ENeha Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EBeth Mynatt\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EBlair MacIntyre\u003C\/strong\u003E, as well as alumni \u003Cstrong\u003EAndrew Miller\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. HCC 2014) and \u003Cstrong\u003ELana Yarosh\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. HCC 2012).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the event, McIntyre chaired a panel titled \u003Cem\u003EAugmented Reality: From Gaming to Cognitive Aids and Beyond\u003C\/em\u003E. The panel included Yvonne Rogers, Peter Lee, and Turing laureates Ivan Sutherland and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilcox and Kumar, as recent inductees into\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/592692\/ics-lauren-wilcox-and-neha-kumar-selected-acm-future-computing-academy\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Einaugural Future of Computing Academy\u003C\/a\u003E, also met with other inductees on June 26.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A group of faculty from GT Computing were invited to celebrate 50th anniversary of the A.M. Turing Award."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2017-06-29 17:57:21","changed_gmt":"2017-06-29 17:57:21","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"581511":{"id":"581511","type":"image","title":"Turing memorial plaque in Sackville Park taken by Lmno","body":null,"created":"1474570379","gmt_created":"2016-09-22 18:52:59","changed":"1475895393","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:33","alt":"Turing memorial plaque in Sackville Park taken by Lmno","file":{"fid":"218393","name":"turing_award.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/turing_award.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/turing_award.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":228993,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/turing_award.jpg?itok=LvINxgox"}}},"media_ids":["581511"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}