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News Summary

  • Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia is the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing.
  • The award comes with a $250,000 cash prize that he is donating to an as-yet-to-be-determined charity.
  • Zaharia, who in addition to his CTO duties is also an associate professor at UC Berkeley, is looking forward, not back.
  • Like everyone else in the Valley, the future he sees is filled with AI.
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