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What It Means to Receive the Turing Award

By Silvio Micali
Communications of the ACM, January 2015, Vol. 58 No. 1, Pages 52-53
10.1145/2692280
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ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients — Turing laureates at the ACM press conference (front row, from left): Silvio Micali (2012), Michael O. Rabin (1976), Edmund M. Clarke (2007). Back row, from left: Joseph Sifakis (2007), Barbara Liskov (2008), Butler W. Lampson (1992), Robert Tarjan (1986).

Credit: Jason Gardner

ACM held a press conference on Nov. 13, 2014 to announce Google's $1 million funding of the ACM A.M. Turing Award (see p. 31). In attendance were seven Turing laureates: Michael Rabin, Robert Tarjan, Butler Lampson, Edmund Clarke, Joseph Sifakis, Barbara Liskov, and Silvio Micali. At the event, Micali was asked to share what it means to receive the Turing Award. Here are his comments.

I'll be brief.

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