Turing award

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(thing) by rp (22.3 hr) (print)   (I like it!) Sun Jul 02 2000 at 22:10:01
More or less the computer science equivalent of the Nobel prize. Awarded by the ACM. Many of the recognized heroes in the field have one.
(thing) by flyingroc (1.5 y) (print)   (I like it!) Tue Oct 31 2000 at 22:20:49
Turing Award Winners: 1966 to 2001 
1966 A.J. Perlis
1967 Maurice V. Wilkes
1968 Richard Hamming
1969 Marvin Minsky
1970 J.H. Wilkinson
1971 John McCarthy
1972 E.W. Dijkstra
1973 Charles W. Bachman
1974 Donald Knuth
1975 Allen Newell
1975 Herbert A. Simon
1976 Michael O. Rabin
1976 Dana S. Scott
1977 John Backus
1978 Robert W. Floyd
1979 Kenneth E. Iverson
1980 C. Antony R. Hoare
1981 Edgar F. Codd
1982 Stephen A. Cook
1983 Ken Thompson
1983 Dennis M. Ritchie
1984 Niklaus Wirth
1985 Richard M. Karp
1986 John Hopcroft
1986 Robert Tarjan
1987 John Cocke
1988 Ivan Sutherland
1989 William (Velvel) Kahan
1990 Fernando J. Corbato'
1991 Robin Milner
1992 Butler W. Lampson
1993 Juris Hartmanis
1993 Richard E. Stearns
1994 Edward Feigenbaum
1994 Raj Reddy
1995 Manuel Blum
1996 Amir Pnueli
1997 Douglas Engelbart
1998 James Gray
1999 Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
2000 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
2001 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard
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