Turing award winners
Eric A. Weiss · Encyclopedia of Computer Science · 2003
The A. M. Turing Award is made annually by the Association Computing Machinery (ACM-q.v.) for contributions of a technical nature in the computing community. The award, which currently includes a prize of $25,000, memorializes the extraordinary genius Alan M. Turing (q.v.) and recognizes his unique and original contribution to the beginning of computing with automatic machinery. Each recipient gives a lecture that is published in an ACM periodical. The first 22 have been collected into a single volume (Ashenhurst and Graham, 1987). ACM's almost exclusive devotion to software and computing theory is reflected in the fact that none of the awards has been strictly hardware contributions, a field dominated by the IEEE Computer Society (see MCDOWELL AWARD WINNERS). Awards made since its inception in 1966 have been: