Turing Award

   

The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field. Most of the recipients have been computer scientists.

The award is named after Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), a British mathematician considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science.

The Turing Award is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of computing". It is sponsored by Intel Corporation and currently has a value of US $100,000.

The award recipients, and the field in which they earned the recognition are listed below. Refer to the individual recipients for more detailed information on their achievements.

Turing Award recipients


Year Name(s) Area of Contribution
1966 Alan J. Perlis advanced programming techniques, compiler construction
1967 Maurice V. Wilkes internally stored program, program libraries
1968 Richard Hamming numerical methods, automatic coding systems, error-detecting and error-correcting codes
1969 Marvin Minsky artificial intelligence
1970 James H. Wilkinson numerical analysis, linear algebra, "backward" error analysis
1971 John McCarthy artificial intelligence
1972 Edsger Dijkstra the science and art of programming languages
1973 Charles W. Bachman database technology
1974 Donald E. Knuth analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages
1975 Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, list processing
1976 Michael O. Rabin and Dana S. Scott nondeterministic machines
1977 John Backus high-level programming systems, formal procedures for the specification of programming languages
1978 Robert W. Floyd methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software
1979 Kenneth E. Iverson programming languages and mathematical notation, implementation of interactive systems, educational uses of APL, programming language theory and practice
1980 C. Antony R. Hoare definition and design of programming languages
1981 Edgar F. Codd database management systems, esp. relational databases
1982 Stephen A. Cook complexity of computation
1983 Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie generic operating systems theory, implementation of UNIX operating system
1984 Niklaus Wirth computer language development
1985 Richard M. Karp theory of algorithms esp. the theory of NP-completeness
1986 John Hopcroft and Robert Tarjan design and analysis of algorithms and data structures
1987 John Cocke theory of compilers, architecture of large systems, development of reduced instruction set computers (RISC)
1988 Ivan Sutherland computer graphics
1989 William (Velvel) Kahan numerical analysis
1990 Fernando J. Corbató CTSS and Multics
1991 Robin Milner LCF, ML, CCS
1992 Butler W. Lampson distributed, personal computing environments
1993 Juris Hartmanis and Richard E. Stearns computational complexity theory
1994 Edward Feigenbaum and Raj Reddy large scale artificial intelligence systems
1995 Manuel Blum computational complexity theory, its application to cryptography and program checking
1996 Amir Pnueli temporal logic, program and systems verification
1997 Douglas Engelbart interactive computing
1998 James Gray database and transaction processing
1999 Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. computer architecture, operating systems, software engineering
2000 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao theory of computation incl. pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity
2001 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard object oriented programming
2002 Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman public key cryptography
2003 Alan Kay object oriented programming


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