Tech nightmares that keep Turing Award winners up at night
It's safe to say that Turing Award winners know a thing or two about computing, so when they express concern about key trends in the tech world, it's worth paying attention.
That, in fact, is just what three award winners did this week at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, where they gathered along with other leading thinkers in the fields of mathematics and computer science.
RSA encryption algorithm co-inventor Leonard Adleman, "father of the Internet" Vint Cerf and cryptography innovator Manuel Blum all shared their biggest fears.
"I worry a lot about the potential loss of openness and freedom on the Internet," Cerf said.
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