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a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the Computing community.
The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the
computer field. Most of the recipients have been Computer Scientist s.

The award is named after Alan Mathison Turing ( 19121954 ), a British mathematician considered to be one of the fathers of modern Computer Science .

The Turing Award is often recognized as the " Nobel Prize of computing". It is sponsored by Intel Corporation and currently is accompanied by a prize of $100,000.

The award recipients, and the field in which they earned the recognition are listed below. Refer to the individual recipients for more detailed information on their achievements.


NATIONALITY

Most Turing Award recipients are Americans. The national distribution of Turing Award recipients from 1966 to 2005 was:
  • United States: 35

  • United Kingdom: 5

  • Israel: 3

  • Canada: 2

  • Norway: 2

  • Netherlands: 1

  • Switzerland: 1

  • Denmark: 1



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