More or less the computer science equivalent of the Nobel prize. Awarded by the ACM. Many of the recognized heroes in the field have one.
Turing Award Winners: 1966 to 2001
1966 A.J. Perlis 1967 Maurice V. Wilkes 1968 Richard Hamming 1969 Marvin Minsky 1970 J.H. Wilkinson 1971 John McCarthy 1972 E.W. Dijkstra 1973 Charles W. Bachman 1974 Donald Knuth 1975 Allen Newell 1975 Herbert A. Simon 1976 Michael O. Rabin 1976 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 1983 Dennis M. Ritchie 1984 Niklaus Wirth 1985 Richard M. Karp 1986 John Hopcroft 1986 Robert Tarjan 1987 John Cocke 1988 Ivan Sutherland 1989 William (Velvel) Kahan 1990 Fernando J. Corbato' 1991 Robin Milner 1992 Butler W. Lampson 1993 Juris Hartmanis 1993 Richard E. Stearns 1994 Edward Feigenbaum 1994 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
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