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IMAGE: Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine is the recipient of the ACM Charles P. Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. view more
Credit: Markus Hörster/TU Braunschweig
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine is the recipient of the ACM Charles P. Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Franz is recognized for the development of just-in-time compilation techniques that enable fast and feature-rich web services on the internet. Every day, millions of people around the world use online applications such as Gmail and Facebook. These web applications would not have been possible without the groundbreaking compilation technique Franz developed in the mid 1990s.