About the ACM A.M. Turing Award

The Turing Award is the highest award offered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and is often called the “Nobel Prize of Computing”. ACM is the largest educational and scientific computing society in the world. >

Alan M. Turing: The ACM A.M. Turing Award was named for Alan M. Turing.  Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist, who is credited for being a visionary and leading team member of the famous code breakers at Bletchley Park in the UK. These code breakers were able to break the German enigma cipher during World War II. For more information >

See what Andrew Chien Vice, President of Research, Intel Labs, Vice President and Director of Future Technologies Research has to say about the Turing Award and Alan Turing >

Leading computer scientists and engineers that created the underlying foundations of what is now the computing industry and information technology revolution have received the Turing Award since 1966. Intel has sponsored the Turing award for the past eight years and was joined by Google as a co-sponsor two years ago.  >

The ACM Awards Ceremony: On June 27th 2009 Intel was pleased to join with other luminaries in our field to recognize the 2008 winner of the Turing Award -Professor Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) . It was a gala event at the historic US Grant Hotel in San Diego and attended by many leaders in the computing industry. In addition to the Turing Award appointments were made to new ACM Fellows which included people like Alan Kay and Intel's Geoff Lowney. Awards were given for a wide variety of accomplishments including outstanding research, education leadership, support of women in the field and many others.  There were a number of student awards including one to a student for his research on work done previously by John Nash and another to a middle school student in China for his winning research shown at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair.

An interview with Barbara Liskov with questions and answers about the award >		Andrew Chien joined Alfred Spector (Google) to present the award to Professor Liskov.

Why does Intel Sponsor the Turing Award?

What does Intel get out of supporting the ACM's A.M. Turing Award? Dr. Andrew Chien, Intel VP of Research and ACM Fellow talks about the prestige and association with computing excellence that define the A.M. Turing Award. >

“Intel and the entire community have benefited from Barbara Liskov’s foundational research and teaching contributions which underlie nearly all modern programming languages and complex distributed software solutions. Professor Liskov’s long track record of excellence and creativity in solving important practical problems exemplifies our values. We are pleased to join the computing community in congratulating this year’s ACM A. M. Turing Award. Congratulations Barbara!” Andrew A. Chien, Vice President of Research, Vice President, Intel Labs, Director, Future technologies Research

Intel is proud to support our professional communities and recognize the leaders in our field.

Intel has sponsored the ACM A.M. Turing Award for eight years.

"Intel and the entire computing industry have been direct beneficiaries of the awardees' ground-breaking work,”

"Our researchers and engineers have worked closely with Clarke, Emerson, and Sifakis for 15 years. Insights from their novel automatic verification results have been widely adopted by the entire industry. These Model Checking approaches provide dramatically better coverage when searching for design errors."  Andrew Chien - Vice President of Research, Vice President, Intel Labs, Director, Future Technologies Research

"Fran Allen's work on the Parallel TRANslation (PTRAN) project built on her earlier work on program optimization. Over the years, this foundation has enabled the advance of programming-productivity based on the co-evolution of higher level programming language and optimization technologies. It is particularly timely that this award comes as parallel computing is becoming an element of the most pervasive of computing platforms - laptop and desktop personal computers - and the opportunities for new and important contributions to parallel programming and efficient implementation abound,"   Andrew Chien Vice President of Research, Vice President, Intel Labs, Director, Future Technologies Research

"Dr. Naur's ALGOL 60 embodied the notion of elegant simplicity for algorithmic expression," said Justin Rattner, Intel Senior Fellow and Chief Technology Officer. "Over the years, programming languages have become bloated with features and functions that have made them more difficult to learn and less effective. This award should encourage future language designers who are addressing today's biggest programming challenges, such as general-purpose, multi-threaded computation, to achieve that same level of elegance and simplicity that was the hallmark of ALGOL 60.

"The Turing Award is widely acknowledged as our industry's highest recognition of the scientists and engineers whose innovations have fueled the digital revolution. This award also serves to encourage the next generation of technology pioneers to deliver the ideas and inventions that will continue to drive our industry forward. As part of its long-standing support for innovation and incubation, Intel is proud to sponsor this year's Turing Award. As a fellow DARPA alumnus, I am especially pleased to congratulate this year's winners (2003) , who are outstanding role models, mentors and research collaborators to myself and many others within the network research community." David Tennenhouse, former Vice President in the Corporate Technology Group and Director of Research.

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ACM: Andrew Chien Vice President of Research, Intel Labs, Vice President and Director of Future Technologies Research talks about the impact of ACM on his career >