Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". It is stipulated that "The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field". The Turing Award is recognized as the "highest distinction in Computer science" and "Nobel Prize of computing". The award is named a... More

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Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". It is stipulated that "The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to...

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 100,000 as of 2011. Its headquarters are in New York City. ACM and the...

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Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1966
  • For his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction
  • 1967
  • Builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program.
  • 1968
  • For his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes
  • 1969
  • for his work in artificial intelligence
  • 1970
  • For his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations in linear algebra and "backward" error analysis
  • 1971
  • for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence
  • 1972
  • for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages
  • 1973
  • For his outstanding contributions to database technology
  • 1974
  • For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to "The Art of Computer Programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title
  • 1975
  • for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition
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