Amber Settle
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This year ACM is celebrating 50 years of the A. M. Turing Award, an award given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing. As part of those celebrations, a conference was held May 12-14, 2017 in Shanghai, China. The ACM Turing 50th Celebration Conference in China brought together three recipients of the Turing award---Vinton Cerf, John Hopcroft, and Andrew Yao---well as numerous other distinguished guests to talk about old and new developments in computer science. One of my favorite presenters was Kai-Fu Lee, currently at Sinovation Ventures, who spoke about quantum computing and artificial intelligence. Nine ACM Special Interest Groups held symposia at the conference, including SIGCSE.
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