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{{Short description|American annual computer science prize}} {{Featured list}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox award | name = ACM Turing Award | image = Alan Turing (1912-1954) in 1936 at Princeton University.jpg | caption = [[Alan Turing]], the award's namesake | alt = Photo of Alan Turing | image_size = | awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in [[computer science]] | presenter = [[Association for Computing Machinery]] | country = United States | reward = {{US$|1000000}}<ref name="million">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1145/2685372 | title = ACM's Turing Award prize raised to $1 million |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2685372 | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 57 | issue = 12 | page = 20 | year = 2014| author = CACM Staff }}</ref> | firstawarded = {{start date and age|1966}} | lastawarded = 2025 | website = {{URL|https://amturing.acm.org}} }} The '''ACM A. M. Turing Award''' is an annual prize given by the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to [[computer science]]. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the field of computer science and is often referred to as the "[[List of prizes known as the Nobel of a field or the highest honors of a field|Nobel Prize of Computing]]". {{As of|2025}}, 79 people have been awarded the prize, with the most recent recipients being [[Andrew Barto]] and [[Richard S. Sutton]], who won in 2024.<ref name="ACM" /><ref name="BartoSutton">{{cite press release|title=ACM A.M. Turing Award Honors Two Researchers Who Led the Development of Cornerstone AI Technology|publisher=The Association for Computing Machinery|url=https://awards.acm.org/about/2024-turing|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305185022/https://awards.acm.org/about/2024-turing|archive-date=March 5, 2025|date=March 5, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dasgupta |first1=Sanjoy |last2=Papadimitriou |first2=Christos |author2-link=Christos Papadimitriou |last3=Vazirani |first3=Umesh | author3-link=Umesh Vazirani |title=Algorithms |url=https://archive.org/details/algorithms00dasg_934 |url-access=limited |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-07-352340-8 |page = [https://archive.org/details/algorithms00dasg_934/page/n316 317] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=dblp: ACM Turing Award Lectures|url=http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/cacm/turing.html|access-date=2023-02-11|website= informatik.uni-trier.de|language=en|archive-date=January 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102222046/http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/cacm/turing.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.networkworld.com/article/692664/data-center-why-there-s-no-nobel-prize-in-computing.html |title = Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing |last = Brown |first = Bob <!-- http://www.networkworld.com/author/Bob-Brown/ --> |website = [[Network World]] |date = June 6, 2011 |access-date = June 3, 2015 | archive-date = December 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231204215338/https://www.networkworld.com/article/692664/data-center-why-there-s-no-nobel-prize-in-computing.html |url-status = live}}</ref> The award is named after [[Alan Turing]], also referred as "Father of Computer Science", who was a British mathematician and [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in mathematics at the [[University of Manchester]]. Turing is often credited as being the founder of [[theoretical computer science]] and [[artificial intelligence]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Homer, Steven and Alan L.|title=Computability and Complexity Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5kOgS1IB-8C&pg=PA35|page=35|isbn=978-0-387-95055-6|access-date=November 5, 2007|year=2001|publisher=Springer |archive-date=April 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403154225/https://books.google.com/books?id=r5kOgS1IB-8C&pg=PA35|url-status=live}}</ref> and a key contributor to the Allied [[cryptanalysis]] of the [[Enigma cipher]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="bbc-copeland">{{cite news |last=Copeland |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Copeland |date=18 June 2012 |title=Alan Turing: The codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives' |publisher=BBC News Technology |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18419691 |url-status=live |access-date=26 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011045451/http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18419691 |archive-date=11 October 2014}}</ref> From 2007 to 2013, the award was accompanied by a prize of {{US$|250000}}, with financial support provided by [[Intel]] and [[Google]].<ref name="ACM">{{cite web|title=A. M. Turing Award |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |url=http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140|access-date=November 5, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212132624/http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140|archive-date=December 12, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases-2007/turingaward/ |title = ACM'S Turing Award Prize Raised To $250,000 |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] press release |date=July 27, 2007|access-date=October 16, 2008 |first=Steven |last = Geringer |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081230233653/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases-2007/turingaward/ |archive-date=December 30, 2008}}</ref> Since 2014, the award has been accompanied by a prize of {{US$|1}} million, with financial support provided by Google.<ref name="million" /><ref>{{cite web|title=ACM's Turing Award Prize Raised to $1 Million |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2014/turing-prize-announcement|access-date=November 13, 2014|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123032706/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2014/turing-prize-announcement|archive-date=November 23, 2015}}</ref> The first recipient, in 1966, was [[Alan Perlis]]. The youngest recipient was [[Donald Knuth]], who won in 1974 at the age of 36,<ref>{{cite arXiv |title=What Kind of Person Wins the Turing Award? |author1=Zhongkai Shangguan |author2=Zihe Zheng |author3=Jiebo Luo |date=2021 |pages=1 |class=cs.GL |quote=The youngest winner was Donald Knuth, who convinced the jury with "Computer Programming as an Art" and won [the] Turing Award in 1974 at the age of 36. |eprint=2104.05636 }}</ref> while the oldest recipient was [[Alfred Aho]], who won in 2020 at the age of 79.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Turing-Award |title=Turing Award |author=William L. Hosch |publisher=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |access-date=March 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205065404/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Turing-Award |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> Only three women have been awarded the prize: [[Frances Allen]] (in 2006),<ref name="Allen">{{cite press release|title=First Woman to Receive ACM Turing Award|publisher=The Association for Computing Machinery|url=http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/2_2007/turing2006.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702034203/http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/2_2007/turing2006.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 2, 2007|date=February 21, 2007|access-date=November 5, 2007}}</ref> [[Barbara Liskov]] (in 2008),<ref name="liskov" /> and [[Shafi Goldwasser]] (in 2012).<ref name="goldwasser" /> __TOC__ {{-}}
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