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 generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and the "Nobel Prize of computing".
The award is named after Alan Turing, mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester. Turing is often credited for being the key founder of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. From 2007-2013, the award was accompanied by a prize of $250,000, with financial support provided by Intel and Google. Since 2014 the award has been accompanied by a prize of $1 million, with financial support provided by Google.
The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University. Frances E. Allen of IBM, in 2006, was the first female recipient in the award's forty year history. The 2008 and 2012 awards also went to women, Barbara Liskov and Shafi Goldwasser, respectively.
Recipients
See also
- IEEE John von Neumann Medal
- List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation
- Nobel Prize
- Schock Prize
- Nevanlinna Prize
References
External links
- ACM List of Turing Laureates
- Visualizing Turing Award Laureates
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