Category: Turing Award for Computer Science
Categories: Science and Technology Honors and Medals
- This category contains profiles of those who received the ACM A.M.Turing Award.
The award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. The award is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as or often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing".
See: Official Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award Website and Wikipedia: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award for Computer Science
Person Profiles (32)
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Frances Allen
04 Aug 1932 Peru, Clinton, New York, United States - 04 Aug 2020
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Charles Bachman
11 Dec 1924 Manhattan, Riley, Kansas, United States - 13 Jul 2017
John Backus
03 Dec 1924 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - 18 Mar 2007
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Edmund Clarke
27 Jul 1945 Newport News, Virginia, United States - 22 Dec 2020
John Cocke
30 May 1925 Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States - 16 Jul 2002
Edgar Codd
19 Aug 1923 Fortuneswell, Dorset, England, United Kingdom - 18 Apr 2003
Fernando Corbató
01 Jul 1926 Oakland, Alameda, California, United States - 12 Jul 2019
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Robert Floyd
08 Jun 1936 New York City, New York, United States - 25 Sep 2001
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James Gray
12 Jan 1943 San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States - abt 28 Jan 2007
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Richard Hamming
11 Feb 1915 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States - 07 Jan 1998
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John McCarthy
04 Sep 1927 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 24 Oct 2011
Marvin Minsky
09 Aug 1927 New York City, New York, United States - 24 Jan 2016
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Peter Naur
25 Oct 1928 Frederiksberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark - 03 Jan 2016
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Allen Newell
19 Mar 1927 San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States - 19 Jul 1992
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Alan Perlis
01 Apr 1922 Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States - 07 Feb 1990
Amir Pnueli
22 Apr 1941 Nahalal, Northern, Palestine - 02 Nov 2009
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Dennis Ritchie
09 Sep 1941 Bronxville, Westchester, New York, United States - 12 Oct 2011
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Herbert Simon
15 Jun 1916 Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States - 09 Feb 2001
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Charles Thacker
26 Feb 1943 Pasadena, Los Angeles, California - 12 Jun 2017
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James Wilkinson
27 Sep 1919 Strood, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 1986
Niklaus Wirth
15 Feb 1934 Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland - 01 Jan 2024
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