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A.M. Turing Award
URL: http://awards.acm.org/turing/

Description:
This award, considered the "Nobel Prize of computing," is "given to an individual 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." The site features a list of award-winners back to 1966 and information about more recent winners. From the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Publisher:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Extra Keywords
Alan ACM

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Computer industry
Computer science -- Awards

LII Database Information:
Record 8328 created by Maria Brandt on 06/13/2005
Last modification on 05/24/2006
Last review by Tom McGibney on 04/03/2006
Published: 06/13/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8328