Top computing awards show growing importance of cybersecurity

A California computer scientist who has studied the economics of cybercrime and pushed the auto industry to address hacking threats to vehicles will be awarded one of the world’s top computing prizes on Wednesday, underscoring the central role that cybersecurity plays in business and government.

Stefan Savage, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, will receive the Association for Computing Machinery’s ACM-Infosys Foundation Award.

 

Earlier this month, the association also gave its top prize – the A.M. Turing award – to two cryptographers, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. They were recognized for developing public-key cryptography and digital signatures in the 1970s, which laid the groundwork for much of what protects Internet communication.

 

“A lot of the important work in computing has something to do with security,” ACM Chief Executive Robert Schnabel told Reuters ahead of the newest announcement. “This used to be what happened in the computing rooms in back offices, and now it is in our cars, and the devices implanted in our bodies.” For the full article click here 

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