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Turing Award

Also Known As ACM A. M. Turing Award
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The Turing Award, formally the ACM A. M. Turing Award, is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the field of computer science and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Computing. It is named after the British mathematician Alan Turing and was first awarded in 1966, to Alan Perlis. Since 2014 it has carried a prize of one million US dollars, funded by Google.

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1966 1
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1
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Alan Turing, Scientists
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Alan Perlis

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Allen Newell

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Barbara Liskov

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Donald Knuth

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Edward Feigenbaum

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Fred Brooks

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John Hopcroft

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Martin Hellman

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Michael Stonebraker

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William Kahan

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  • Lead section
    The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science.
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  • Named After: Alan Turing
  • In Group: Major International Science Prizes, Lead, sentence 1
    The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science.
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