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In the news | ACM
Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the ACM.
Awards | SPIE
In the news | ACM SIGPLAN
For the 1993 paper, Imperative functional programming.
The publication Multimedia Content Screening Using a Dual Watermarking and Fingerprinting System was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2002 ACM Multimedia Conference.
Awards | IEEE Signal Processing
For development of lapped transforms and contributions to audio and video coding techniques.