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A.M. Turing Award
The A.M. Turing Award, ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.
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Judea Pearl - Award Winner
For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.
Judea Pearl's work has transformed artificial intelligence (...
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Frances Allen - Award Winner
CITATION
For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution.
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Niklaus E. Wirth - Award Winner
Switzerland â 1994
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For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. PASCAL has become pedagogically significant and...
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Dennis M. Ritchie - A.M. Turing Award Laureate
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Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ (Multics project 1967-1969, Creator of C language, Co-creator of Unix operating system, co-creator of Plan 9 From Bell Labs ope...
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Whitfield Diffie - Award Winner
Public-Key Cryptography
Leonard Adleman, Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ralph Merkle, Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir
For the conception and first effective realization of public-key cryptography. The ...