United States, April 9 -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Matei Zaharia as the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure, which has enabled large-scale machine learning and analytics at global scale.The ACM Prize in Computing recognizes early-to-mid-career computer scientists whose work has had broad and lasting impact. The award carries a $250,000 prize, with financial support provided by an endowment from Infosys Ltd., a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting.Zaharia's work addressed a central challenge in computing: how to work with and analyze rapidly growing volumes of data efficiently, and at a scale previousl...