The ACM's A.M. Turning Award winner for 2010 to be announced next week
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, next week will reveal the winner of its annual A.M. Turing Award, which recognizes an individual for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The award, which includes a $250K prize, has been called the “Nobel Prize of computing.”
Recent winners have been MIT Professor Barbara Liskov, recognized for object-oriented programming techniques crucial to programming languages such as Java and C++, and Microsoft researcher Charles Thacker, who won last year for his work in pioneering the networked personal computer.
Here’s the full list of winners for the Turing Award, which goes back to 1966.
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