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TuringAward
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TheACMA.M.TuringAwardisanannualprize
givenbytheAssociationforComputingMachinery
(ACM)to"anindividualselectedforcontributionsof
atechnicalnaturemadetothecomputing
community".Itisstipulatedthat"Thecontributions
shouldbeoflastingandmajortechnicalimportanceto
thecomputerfield".[2]TheTuringAwardisgenerally
recognizedasthehighestdistinctionincomputer
science[3][4]andthe"NobelPrizeofcomputing".[5][6]
TheawardisnamedafterAlanTuring,mathematician
andreaderinmathematicsattheUniversityof
Manchester,laterfellowattheUniversityof
Cambridge.Turingisoftencreditedforbeingthekey
founderoftheoreticalcomputerscienceandartificial
intelligence.[7]From2007to2013,theawardwas
accompaniedbyaprizeofUS$250,000,with
financialsupportprovidedbyIntelandGoogle.[2]
Since2014,theawardhasbeenaccompaniedbya
prizeofUS$1million,[1]withfinancialsupport
providedbyGoogle.[8]
Thefirstrecipient,in1966,wasAlanPerlis,of
CarnegieMellonUniversity.Thefirstfemalerecipient
wasFrancesE.AllenofIBMin2006.[9]

Recipients

ACMTuringAward

StephenKettle'sslatestatueofAlanTuringat
BletchleyPark
Awardedfor

Outstandingcontributionsin
computerscience

Country

UnitedStates

Presentedby

AssociationforComputing
Machinery(ACM)

Reward(s)

US$1,000,000[1]

Firstawarded

1966

Lastawarded

2015

Officialwebsite amturing.acm.org(http://amturin
g.acm.org)

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Turing Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Recipients

Citation

1966 AlanJ.Perlis

Forhisinfluenceintheareaofadvancedcomputerprogramming
techniquesandcompilerconstruction[10]

1967 MauriceWilkes

ProfessorWilkesisbestknownasthebuilderanddesigneroftheEDSAC,
thefirstcomputerwithaninternallystoredprogram.Builtin1949,the
EDSACusedamercurydelaylinememory.Heisalsoknownasthe
author,withWheelerandGill,ofavolumeon"PreparationofPrograms
forElectronicDigitalComputers"in1951,inwhichprogramlibrarieswere
effectivelyintroduced[11]

1968 RichardHamming

Forhisworkonnumericalmethods,automaticcodingsystems,anderror
detectinganderrorcorrectingcodes[12]

1969 MarvinMinsky

Forhiscentralroleincreating,shaping,promoting,andadvancingthefield
ofartificialintelligence.[13]

JamesH.
Wilkinson

Forhisresearchinnumericalanalysistofacilitatetheuseofthehighspeed
digitalcomputer,havingreceivedspecialrecognitionforhisworkin
computationsinlinearalgebraand"backward"erroranalysis[14]

1970

1971 JohnMcCarthy

McCarthy'slecture"ThePresentStateofResearchonArtificial
Intelligence"isatopicthatcoverstheareainwhichhehasachieved
considerablerecognitionforhiswork[15]

EdsgerDijkstrawasaprincipalcontributorinthelate1950stothe
developmentoftheALGOL,ahighlevelprogramminglanguagewhich
hasbecomeamodelofclarityandmathematicalrigor.Heisoneofthe
principalproponentsofthescienceandartofprogramminglanguagesin
1972 EdsgerW.Dijkstra general,andhasgreatlycontributedtoourunderstandingoftheirstructure,
representation,andimplementation.Hisfifteenyearsofpublications
extendfromtheoreticalarticlesongraphtheorytobasicmanuals,
expositorytexts,andphilosophicalcontemplationsinthefieldof
programminglanguages[16]
1973

CharlesW.
Bachman

1974 DonaldE.Knuth

1975

AllenNewelland
HerbertA.Simon

MichaelO.Rabin
1976 and
DanaS.Scott

Forhisoutstandingcontributionstodatabasetechnology[17]
Forhismajorcontributionstotheanalysisofalgorithmsandthedesignof
programminglanguages,andinparticularforhiscontributionsto"TheArt
ofComputerProgramming"throughhiswellknownbooksinacontinuous
seriesbythistitle[18]
Injointscientificeffortsextendingovertwentyyears,initiallyin
collaborationwithJ.C.ShawattheRANDCorporation,and
subsequentially[sic]withnumerousfacultyandstudentcolleaguesat
CarnegieMellonUniversity,theyhavemadebasiccontributionsto
artificialintelligence,thepsychologyofhumancognition,andlist
processing[19]
Fortheirjointpaper"FiniteAutomataandTheirDecisionProblem,"[20]
whichintroducedtheideaofnondeterministicmachines,whichhasproved
tobeanenormouslyvaluableconcept.Their(Scott&Rabin)classicpaper
hasbeenacontinuoussourceofinspirationforsubsequentworkinthis
field[21][22]
Forprofound,influential,andlastingcontributionstothedesignof
practicalhighlevelprogrammingsystems,notablythroughhisworkon

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