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Encyclopedia: 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.

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How to say "Turing Award" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	图灵奖
	(Japanese)	チューリング賞
	(German)	Turing Award
	(Spanish)	Premio Turing
	(French)	Prix Turing
	(Italian)	Premio Turing

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Charles Bachman

Charles W. Bachman is a prominent computer scientist, particularly in the area of databases. He received the Turing Award in 1973 for "his outstanding contributions to database technology". Bachman is somewhat unusual for a Turing Award winner as he spent his entire career as an industrial...

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Alan Perlis

Alan Perlis Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990) was a prominent computer scientist. He was the first recipient of the Turing Award, in 1966. In 1943, he received his bachelor's degree.... According to the citation, the Turing Award was: For his influence in the area of advanced programming...

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1983 in science

Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. Awards Nobel Prizes Physics - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler Chemistry - Henry Taube Medicine - Barbara McClintock Turing Award - Ken...

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1992 in science

contraceptive in the United States. Awards Nobel Prizes Physics: Georges Charpak Chemistry: Rudolph A. Marcus Medicine: Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs Turing Award: Butler Lampson Wollaston Medal for...

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Richard Stearns

Richard Edwin Stearns is a prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". Stearns is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of...

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1974 in science

Turing Award - Donald Knuth... American space station Skylab return to Earth Awards Nobel Prizes Physics - Martin Ryle, Antony...

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1978 in science

Turing Award - Robert Floyd Deaths January 14 - Kurt Gödel, US mathematician March 31 - Charles..., Illinois). Awards Nobel Prizes Physics - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert...

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1979 in science

Medicine - Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield Turing Award - Kenneth E. Iverson Deaths Karl... km. Computer science VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program. Awards Nobel Prizes...

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