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The document discusses the ACM A.M. Turing Award, which is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to individuals who have made major technical contributions to the field of computer science. The award is considered the highest distinction in computer science and the "Nobel Prize of computing." It is named after Alan Turing and currently comes with a $1 million prize funded by Google. Some of the earliest recipients include Alan Perlis, Maurice Wilkes, and Richard Hamming.

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Turing Award

The document discusses the ACM A.M. Turing Award, which is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to individuals who have made major technical contributions to the field of computer science. The award is considered the highest distinction in computer science and the "Nobel Prize of computing." It is named after Alan Turing and currently comes with a $1 million prize funded by Google. Some of the earliest recipients include Alan Perlis, Maurice Wilkes, and Richard Hamming.

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TuringAward
FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia

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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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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