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Franck Cappello is a French and American computer scientist, working at Argonne National Laboratory. [1]

He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award in 2024. [2]

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References

  1. "Franck Cappello". anl.gov.
  2. https://www.computer.org/profiles/franck-cappello