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Turing Laureates Celebrate Award's 50^th Anniversary

By Lawrence M. Fisher
Communications of the ACM, September 2017, Vol. 60 No. 9, Pages 20-23
10.1145/3122790
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15 Turing laureates — Among the 22 Turing Laureates in attendance at the conference were: Front row, from left: Whitfield Diffie (2015), Martin Hellman (2015), Robert Tarjan (1986), Barbara Liskov (2008). Second row, from left: Vinton Cerf (2004), Richard Karp (1985), Richard

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ACM recently held a conference in celebration of the first 50 years of the ACM A.M. Turing Award.

"Just over 50 years ago, ACM awarded its first A.M. Turing Award to Alan Perlis for his work on advanced programming techniques and compiler construction," said ACM president Vicki L. Hanson. "In total, 64 people from around the world have received the Turing Award, recognizing work that laid the foundations of modern computing."

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Turing Laureates Celebrate Award's 50th Anniversary