Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Aaaaand we are back with Day 2 summary of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation #HLF26...

Our scientific programme managers Jessica Fintzen and Albrecht Schmidt summarize the programme highlights and give a preview we can exptect tomorrow (spoiler: AI and maths)...

Also today we have some amazing guests with us (totally planned in advance..) ... please meet the new ACM President Elisa Bertino, Chair of the ACM Europe Council Rosa M. Badia and Past ACM President Yannis Ioannidis....

For those wondering: ACM - the Association for Computing Machinery - is one of the world’s leading scientific and educational organizations for computing. Aaaaaaand it is also behind some of the field’s most prestigious honors several of which are particularly close to the HLF community. Most notably, ACM presents the ACM A.M. Turing Award - the "Nobel Prize of Computing". It also recognizes outstanding researchers through honors such as the ACM Prize in Computing or the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award.

Spoiler: our tiny evening summary escalated a little and might contain some tips on how to aim for a Turing Award (or perhaps how not to)... plus a few thoughts on why we might ... or might not ... still be publishing papers in the future...



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