First awarded 1966 Official website amturing.acm.org Country United States of America Established 1966 | Last awarded 2015 Ceremony date 24 June 2017 Reward 1 million USD | |
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Awarded for Outstanding contributions in computer science Presented by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) People also search for National Medal of Technology and Innovation | ||
Michael stonebraker 2014 acm a m turing lecture june 13 2015
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". It is stipulated that "The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field". The Turing Award is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and the "Nobel Prize of computing".
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The award is named after Alan Turing, mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester, later fellow at the University of Cambridge. Turing is often credited for being the key founder of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. From 2007 to 2013, the award was accompanied by a prize of US $250,000, with financial support provided by Intel and Google. Since 2014, the award has been accompanied by a prize of US $1 million, with financial support provided by Google.
The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University. The first female recipient was Frances E. Allen of IBM in 2006.