Turing Award
The A.M. Turing Award is given 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 Turing Award is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of computing".
The award recipients:
- 1966 Alan J. Perlis
- 1967 Maurice V. Wilkes
- 1968 Richard Hamming
- 1969 Marvin Minsky
- 1970 James H. Wilkinson
- 1971 John McCarthy
- 1972 Edsger Dijkstra
- 1973 Charles W. Bachman
- 1974 Donald E. Knuth
- 1975 Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon
- 1976 Michael O. Rabin and Dana S. Scott
- 1977 John Backus
- 1978 Robert W. Floyd
- 1979 Kenneth E. Iverson
- 1980 C. Antony R. Hoare
- 1981 Edgar F. Codd
- 1982 Stephen A. Cook
- 1983 Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie
- 1984 Niklaus Wirth
- 1985 Richard M. Karp
- 1986 John Hopcroft and Robert Tarjan
- 1987 John Cocke
- 1988 Ivan Sutherland
- 1989 William (Velvel) Kahan
- 1990 Fernando J. Corbató
- 1991 Robin Milner
- 1992 Butler W. Lampson
- 1993 Juris Hartmanis and Richard E. Stearns
- 1994 Edward Feigenbaum and Raj Reddy
- 1995 Manuel Blum
- 1996 Amir Pnueli
- 1997 Douglas Engelbart
- 1998 James Gray
- 1999 Frederick P. Brooks, Jr
- 2000 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
- 2001 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard
- 2002 Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman
