Turing Award

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annual award computer science award international award

The Turing Award is a prestigious annual prize often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," honoring individuals for major contributions to the field of computer science.

Aliases (11)

ACM A.M. Turing Award ×6
ACM Turing Award ×4
2018 Turing Award ×2
ACM A. M. Turing Award ×2
2007 ACM A.M. Turing Award ×1
A. M. Turing Award ×1
A.M. Turing Award ×1
ACM Turing Award (posthumous recognition as a pioneer, though not a formal laureate) ×1
Nobel Prize of Computing ×1
Turing Award for the development of generic operating systems theory and the implementation of the Unix operating system ×1
Turing Award laureates ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	annual award → computer science award → international award →
abbreviation	ACM A. M. Turing Award →
awardedFor	major contributions of lasting importance in computing →
awardingBodyType	professional association →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
describedAs	Nobel Prize of Computing →
discipline	algorithms → artificial intelligence → computer architecture → human-computer interaction → programming languages → systems → theoretical computer science →
eligibility	computer scientists → individuals →
field	computer science → computing →
firstAwarded	1966 →
frequency	annual →
fullName	A. M. Turing Award →
hasNotableRecipient	Alan Perlis → Barbara Liskov → Donald E. Knuth → Edsger W. Dijkstra → Geoffrey Hinton → John McCarthy → Leslie Lamport → Martin Hellman → Marvin Minsky → Shafi Goldwasser → Silvio Micali → Tim Berners-Lee → Tony Hoare → Whitfield Diffie → Yann LeCun → Yoshua Bengio →
inception	1966 →
languageOfAwardingBody	English →
monetaryValue	1000000 USD →
monetaryValueSponsor	Google →
namedAfter	Alan Turing →
organizer	Association for Computing Machinery →
presentedBy	Association for Computing Machinery →
purpose	to honor major contributions to computer science → to recognize contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing community →
selectionProcess	peer review by ACM-appointed committee →
sponsor	Association for Computing Machinery → Google →
typicalAnnouncementTime	annually →

Referenced by (65)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Adi Shamir → Alan Kay ("ACM Turing Award") → Alan Perlis → Allen Newell → Avi Wigderson → Bailey Whitfield Diffie → Dennis Ritchie → Dijkstra → Dijkstra ("ACM Turing Award") → Donald E. Knuth → Douglas Engelbart → E. Allen Emerson → E. Allen Emerson ("ACM A. M. Turing Award") → Edmund M. Clarke ("ACM A.M. Turing Award") → Edsger W. Dijkstra → Edsger W. Dijkstra ("ACM Turing Award") → Edwin Catmull → Fred Brooks → Geoffrey Hinton → Herbert A. Simon → Ivan Sutherland → John L. Hennessy ("ACM A.M. Turing Award") → John McCarthy → Joseph Sifakis ("ACM A.M. Turing Award") → Ken Thompson → Leonard Adleman → Leslie Lamport → Leslie Valiant → Lick ("ACM Turing Award (posthumous recognition as a pioneer, though not a formal laureate)") → Manuel Blum → Martin Hellman → Marvin Minsky → Marvin Minsky → Niklaus Wirth → Pat Hanrahan ("ACM A.M. Turing Award") → Raj Reddy → Robert Kahn → Robert Tarjan → Robin Milner → Ronald L. Rivest → Ronald L. Rivest ("ACM Turing Award") → Shafi Goldwasser → Silvio Micali → Stephen Cook → Tim Berners-Lee → Tony Hoare → Tony Hoare ("ACM A.M. Turing Award") → Vinton Cerf → Whitfield Diffie → Yann LeCun → Yann LeCun → Yoshua Bengio → Yoshua Bengio →	awardReceived
Geoffrey Hinton ("2018 Turing Award") → Joseph Sifakis ("2007 ACM A.M. Turing Award") → Yoshua Bengio ("2018 Turing Award") →	coRecipientOf
Turing Award ("ACM A. M. Turing Award") →	abbreviation
Association for Computing Machinery ("A.M. Turing Award") →	awards
Turing Award ("Nobel Prize of Computing") →	describedAs
Turing Award ("A. M. Turing Award") →	fullName
Stanford Computer Science Department ("Turing Award laureates") →	hasNotableFaculty
Alan Turing →	honouredIn
Alan Perlis →	notableAward
Ken Thompson ("Turing Award for the development of generic operating systems theory and the implementation of the Unix operating system") →	receivedAwardFor
ACM Prize in Computing ("ACM A.M. Turing Award") →	relatedAward