FEATURED AWARD WINNER:

John E Hopcroft

John Hopcroft, the 1986 co-recipient with Robert Tarjan of the Turing Award, was honored for his impact on theoretical computer science and the analysis of algorithms. His co-authored classic textbooks continue to influence students 40 years later. He has advised many successful PhD students and provided influential leadership in computer science research and education at the national and international level.

More on John E Hopcroft and his work can be found here.

The A.M. Turing Award, the ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing. Recipients are invited to give the annual A.M. Turing Award Lecture. The award is also accompanied by a cash prize of $250,000, which in recent years has been underwritten by the Intel Corporation and Google, Inc.

This site celebrates all the winners since the award's creation in 1966. It contains biographical information, a description of their accomplishments, straightforward explanations of their fields of specialization, and text or video of their A. M. Turing Award Lecture.

A.M TURING

The A.M. Turing Award, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of Computing, was named in honor of Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954), a British mathematician and computer scientist. He made fundamental advances in computer architecture, algorithms, formalization of computing, and artificial intelligence. Turing was also instrumental in British code-breaking work during World War II.