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ACM A.M. Turing Award nominations solicited
ACM A.M. Turing Award Nominations Solicited
Nominations are invited for the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award. ACM's oldest and most prestigious award is presented for contributions of a technical nature to the computing community. Although the long-term influences of the nominee's work are taken into consideration, there should be a particular outstanding and trendsetting technical achievement that constitutes the principal claim to the award. The award carries a prize of $250,000 and the recipient is expected to present an address that will be published in an ACM journal. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by the Intel Corporation and Google Inc.
Nominations should include:
- A curriculum vitae, listing publications, patents, honors, other awards, etc.
- A letter from the principal nominator, which describes the work of the nominee, and draws particular attention to the contribution that is seen as meriting the award.
- Supporting letters from at least three endorsers. The letters should not all be from colleagues or co-workers who are closely associated with the nominee, and preferably should come from individuals at more than one organization. Successful Turing Award nominations usually include substantive letters of support from a group of prominent individuals broadly representative of the candidate's field.
For additional information on ACM's award program please visit: www.acm.org/awards/. Additional information on the past recipients of the A.M. Turing Award is available at: http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140.
Nominations should be sent by October 31, 2008 to:
- Professor Brian Randell
- School of Computing Science
- Newcastle University
- Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
- [email protected]
Previous A.M. Turing Award Recipients
1966 A.J. Perlis
1967 Maurice Wilkes
1968 R.W. Hamming
1969 Marvin Minsky
1970 J.H. Wilkinson
1971 John McCarthy
1972 E.W. Dijkstra
1973 Charles Bachman
1974 Donald Knuth
1975 Allen Newell
1975 Herbert Simon
1976 Michael Rabin
1976 Dana Scott
1977 John Backus
1978 Robert Floyd
1979 Kenneth Iverson
1980 C.A.R Hoare
1981 Edgar Codd
1982 Stephen Cook
1983 Ken Thompson
1983 Dennis Ritchie
1984 Niklaus Wirth
1985 Richard Karp
1986 John Hopcroft
1986 Robert Tarjan
1987 John Cocke
1988 Ivan Sutherland
1989 William Kahan
1990 Fernando Corbató
1991 Robin Milner
1992 Butler Lampson
1993 Juris Hartmanis
1993 Richard Stearns
1994 Edward Feigenbaum
1994 Raj Reddy
1995 Manuel Blum
1996 Amir Pnueli
1997 Douglas Engelbart
1998 James Gray
1999 Frederick Brooks
2000 Andrew Yao
2001 Ole-Johan Dahl
2001 Kristen Nygaard
2002 Leonard Adleman
2002 Ronald Rivest
2002 Adi Shamir
2003 Alan Kay
2004 Vinton Cerf
2004 Robert Kahn
2005 Peter Naur
2006 Frances E. Allen
2007 Edmund M. Clarke
2007 E. Allen Emerson
2007 Joseph Sifakis
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