Friday, June 23, 2017

NSF-funded ACM Turing Awardees: A Look at 50 Years of Computing's Greatest Visionaries

06/22/2017 02:46 PM EDT

 

This year marks 50 years of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Computing." Since 1966, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized on an annual basis individuals who have contributed lasting and major technical accomplishments to computing.

The name of the award recognizes Alan M. Turing, who is often credited as a key founder of the field of artificial intelligence. More than half of the 65 ...

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