Quantum Recommendation Problem Obsoleted →

via Kevin Hartnett, writing for Simon's Foundation Quanta Magazine, notes - An 18 year old man from Texas (in the fall, Ewin will attend the University of Washington graduate program in Computer Science) has obsoleted the so-called quantum 'recommendation problem'. Eighteen year old Ewin Tang has published a paper entitled 'A Quantum-Inspired Classical Algorithm for Recommendation Systems' detailing the problems obsolescence (and is today's selection for a Must Read recommendation).

Well Done, Mr. Tang, Well Done.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, ACM A.M.Turing Laureate →

The Association of Computing Machinery has announced the 2016 A.M. Turing Laureate - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, physicist and inventor of the World Wide Web, leveraging the foundational TCP/IP Internet data deleivery protocols. We extend our hearty congratulations to Sir Tim.

Berners-Lee, who graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Physics, submitted the proposal for the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He noticed that scientists were having difficulty sharing information about particle accelerators. In 1989, interconnectivity among computers via Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) had been in existence for a decade, and while segments of the scientific community were using the Internet, the kinds of information they could easily share was limited. Berners-Lee envisioned a system where CERN staff could exchange documents over the Internet using readable text that contained embedded hyperlinks. via the ACM

ISOC, 2015 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Goes To Rob Blokzijl

The Internet Society has awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award to Rob Blokzijl, Ph.D. for his tireless labor and over 25 years as the Founding Member, and Retired Chair (retired in May 2014) at (Réseaux IP Européens] aka RIPE. That work coupled with the critically important labor of assisting other European policy makers, engineers and scientists to spread the Internet across Europe informed the selection of Dr. Blokzijl!.

'During the 1980s, Dr. Blokzijl was active in building networks for the particle physics community in Europe. Through his experience at the National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF) and CERN, he recognized the power of collaborating with others building networks for research and travelled worldwide to promote cooperation across networkers. In the 1990s, Dr. Blokzijl was influential in the creation of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, one of the first in Europe. His most widely recognized contribution is as founding member and 25-year chairman of RIPE, the European open forum for IP networking. Dr. Blokzijl was also instrumental in the creation of RIPE NCC in 1992, the first Regional Internet Registry in the world.' - via the Internet Society