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 Turing (1912–1954), a United Kingdom mathematician considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science.
The Turing Award is often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of computing". It is sponsored by Intel Corporation and currently is accompanied by a prize of $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.
= Nationality =
Most of Turing Award recipients are Americans. Here is the national distribution of Turing Award recepients from 1966 to 2004.
= Turing Award recipients =
= See also =
*Nevanlinna Prize *List of awards *Prizes named after people
=External link=
*[http://www.acm.org/awards/taward.html A.M. Turing Award website]|
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