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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.
| Year | Name(s) | Area of Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Alan J. Perlis | advanced programming techniques, compiler construction |
| 1967 | Maurice V. Wilkes | internally stored program, program libraries |
| 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the | Richard HammingRichard Wesley Hamming ( February 11, 1915 January 7, 1998) was a mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. His contributions to science include the Hamming code, the Hamming window (described in section 5 | numerical methods, automatic coding systems, error-detecting and error-correcting codes |
| 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i | Marvin MinskyMarvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as "Old Man Minsky", is an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. He was | artificial intelligenceThis article is about modelling human thought with computers,. For other uses of the term AI see Ai''. Artificial intelligence also known as machine intelligence is defined as intelligence exhibited by anything manufactured (i. artificial) by humans or ot |
| 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January | James H. WilkinsonYou might want James Wilkinson (1757-1825), an American General. James Hardy Wilkinson ( 27 September, 1919 5 October, 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science par | 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 |