From that assessment, a pilot recruitment model will be
developed with specific tailoring for each minority population. Genentech, the Intercultural Cancer Council and Baylor College
of Medicine are committed to building long-term solutions that truly address
the issue of disparity in clinical trials and help build trust in minority
communities.

Early Experience in Practical Calculations and Applications
Dr.

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Naur was editor in 1960 of the hugely influential "Report on the
Algorithmic Language Algol 60. BNF
is now the standard way to define a computer language., and came to the U .

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Armin Weinberg, professor
of medicine and family and community medicine at BCM as well as director of
the College's Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center. The ICC is a multi-cultural group that addresses health
disparities. The
report, with its use of BNF to define the syntax and carefully chosen prose to
define the semantics, was concise, powerful, and unambiguous. It was deliberately independent of the properties of any
particular computer.
"Dr. In 1953, he returned to Denmark
and served as a scientific assistant at Copenhagen Observatory. Since its inception, the Turing
Award has honored the computer scientists and engineers who created the
systems and underlying theoretical foundations that have propelled the
information technology industry.

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Project Addresses Underrepresentation of Minorities and Underserved Patients in Clinical Studies

5 million over four years to
support the program.
"We believe that a lack of information and culturally competent materials,
systems and professionals may explain the high dropout rate," Weinberg said . This award should encourage future language designers who are
addressing today's biggest programming challenges, such as general-purpose,
multi-threaded computation, to achieve that same level of elegance and
simplicity that was the hallmark of ALGOL 60. He made pioneering contributions to methodologies for writing
correct programs through his work on assertions that enable programmers to
state their assumptions, and on structured programming.S.M. Turing Award was named for Alan M. For additional information , click on
http://www.

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This strategic alliance of academic, private and non-profit organizations
is designed to address two critical components -- policy and intervention
research -- in the recruitment and retention of patients in oncology and
asthma clinical trials. The ICC
national network includes over 10,000 members as well as over 200
organizations and agencies, both governmental and non-governmental , and will
bring leaders that have a working knowledge and an experience base from the
communities that often have not been fully engaged nor represented in clinical
trials to these studies. It carries a $100,000 prize,
with financial support provided by Intel Corporation. The report made pioneering use of what later
became known as Backus-Naur Form (BNF) to define the syntax of programs.
"Dr.

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The award
is for Naur's pioneering work on defining the Algol 60 programming language.

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John Backus, another
former Turing Award winner, acknowledged Naur as the driving intellectual
force behind the definition of Algol 60.
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The Turing Award,
considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," was first awarded in 1966, and is
named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing . "Over the years, programming languages have become bloated
with features and functions that have made them more difficult to learn and
less effective."
Before publication of the Algol 60 Report, computer languages were
informally defined by their prose manuals and the compiler code itself . Hagemann Gold Medal from the Danish
Technical University in 1963, the Jens Rosenkjaer Prize from the Danish Radio
in 1966, and the Computer Pioneer Award from the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers in 1986.

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Genentech is providing $5. "The
goal of this project is to get information that will help us better serve
these groups. The
development of Algol 60 was the result of an exceptionally talented group of
people, including several who were later named Turing Award winners.
The 17-page Algol 60 Report presented the complete definition of an
elegant, transparent language designed for communication among humans as well
as with computers. Through these activities and his
development of an influential computer science curriculum, Dr. Naur
studied astronomy at King's College in Cambridge , U.

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"Without adequate representation of ethnic and racial minorities and other
underserved populations, researchers are hindered in their assessment and
generalization of clinical trial results ," said Dr. Baylor and the ICC are recognized leaders in the field of
addressing disparities in the health care of minorities and underserved
populations.
Dr. "It will also allow us
to test and compare different recruitment and retention strategies, especially
among those with greater health disparities." He is recognized for the report's elegance,
uniformity and coherence, and credited as an important contributor to the
language's power and simplicity. Naur's contribution to Algol 60 was seminal. "His work, though
formal and precise, displays an exceptional understanding of the limits and
uses of formalism and precision," said Gray. There he organized the
Algol Bulletin and was editor of the 13-person international Algol 60 team's
report that defined Algol 60.
ACM will present the Turing Award at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on May
20, 2006, at the Westin St.

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Software Pioneer Peter Naur Wins ACM's Turing Award

"Many of the
programming constructs we take for granted today were introduced in the Algol
Report, which introduced a concise block-structured language that improved the
way we express algorithms.

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, a leading biotechnology company, to improve the
participation of minorities and underserved patients in clinical research
trials.
Algol 60 is the model for many later programming languages, including those
that are indispensable software engineering tools today. He later returned there to earn a
doctorate in astronomy in 1957.

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Naur 's contribution was a watershed in the computing field, and
transformed the way we define programming languages," said James Gray of
Microsoft Research, and Chair of the 2005 Turing Committee. Naur began his scientific pursuits as an astronomer, where he was
involved in computations of the orbits of comets and minor planets. He became a professor at the Copenhagen
University Institute of Datalogy in 1969, retiring in 1998.acm.

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The research project is divided into two arms with both focusing on
retention and recruitment. The ICC promotes policies, programs, partnerships,
and research to eliminate the unequal burden of health disparities among
racial and ethnic minorities and underserved populations in the United States
and its associated territories. Dane's Creative Genius Revolutionized Computer Language Design

NEW YORK, The Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A. Dr."
Dr. He
obtained a magister of science degree (the equivalent of a master's degree)
from Copenhagen University in 1949. Turing, the British
mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of
computing, and who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of the
German Enigma cipher during World War II.org , is an
educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators,
researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address
the field's challenges.

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While members of minority groups tend to drop out of clinical studies at
high rates, little is known about the failure to retain participants. Naur was instrumental in establishing software engineering as a
discipline. ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice
through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition
of technical excellence.

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HOUSTON, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) today
announced that it has joined forces with the Intercultural Cancer Council
(ICC) and Genentech, Inc."
Genentech is committed to building long-term solutions, and ensuring
clinical trials for new treatments are broadly representative of patient
populations, so that clinical trials reach and retain a diverse cross-section
of patients.
"Genentech is devoted to giving everyone equal opportunity to potentially
life-saving science," said Dr. He commented that Naur's editing of
the Algol report and his comprehensive preparation for the January 1960
meeting in which Algol was presented "was the stuff that really made Algol 60
the language that it is, and it wouldn't have even come about, had he not done
that .org/awards/taward.

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Amelie G.
"This study will help us gain a better understanding of what minority
communities think about clinical trials," said Ramirez."

Contributions Signal Birth of Computing Science
In 2002, former Turing Award winner Edsger Dijkstra characterized the
development of Algol 60 as "an absolute miracle" that signaled the birth of
what he called "computing science " because it showed the first ways in which
automatic computing could and should become a topic of academic concern.

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Naur is also cited for
his contribution to compiler design and to the art and practice of computer
programming. The new language was a major challenge to compiler
writers. Naur
contributed fundamental components of today's computing knowledge and skills. A. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Turing Award
The A.html . ACM supports the professional growth of its members
by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development , and
professional networking.

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M. Turing Award. Naur's ALGOL 60 embodied the notion of elegant simplicity for
algorithmic expression," said Justin Rattner, Intel senior fellow and Chief
Technology Officer . During the 1950-51 academic year, Dr.

About ACM
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery http://www.

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Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Genentech president of
product development."
The chronic disease program at Baylor develops and applies biobehavioral
research models among culturally diverse, at-risk populations. Naur went on to co-author the GIER Algol Compiler
(for the transistorized electronic computer developed in Denmark known as
GIER), one of the first compilers to deal fully and correctly with the
language's powerful procedure mechanism.

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The policy research arm will examine a wide range
of issues relating to clinical trials, and the field studies will test
different strategies in addressing barriers and facilitators to clinical trial
recruitment.
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The initiative will be conducted in conjunction with the ICC, co-founded
by Weinberg.
In the first part of the study, healthcare providers and potential
clinical trial participants will be interviewed individually and in small
groups to assess how clinical trials are perceived and how participation is
offered to patients.
Dr.
to further his work in the field.

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"Minority populations -- as well as women and the socio-
economically disadvantaged -- are currently underrepresented in clinical
research trials, and this lack of participation has contributed to a health
care disparity .

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Ramirez, professor of medicine at BCM and director of the
Office of Outreach and Health Disparities Research in Cancer at the new BCM
Cancer Center, and Weinberg are the co-principal investigators of the project. This work involved using early computers
(starting with EDSAC, the world's first practical stored program electronic
computer) for his astronomical calculations.
In 1959, he joined the staff of the compiler design group at
Regnecentralen, the first Danish computer company . Naur was awarded the G.acm.

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