Turing Award
Top computer science honor
The Turing Award is the highest honor in computer science, given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Named for mathematician Alan Turing, it recognizes lasting contributions to computing and carries a million-dollar prize.
Often called the Nobel Prize of computing: She received the Turing Award for her work on compilers.
- computer scienceStudy of algorithms and computation
- computer scientistExpert in computational theory
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