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Google Quadruples A.M. Turing Award To $1M

Posted by samzenpus on from the sweeten-the-pot dept.

alphadogg writes The Association for Computing Machinery has announced that its annual A.M. Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize in Computing, will now come with a $1M award courtesy of Google. Previously, the award came with a $250K prize funded by Google and Intel. The award, which goes to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community," is generally doled out in February or March. This past March, the winner was Microsoft Research principal Leslie Lambert. The ACM says the bigger prize should raise the award's visibility.

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  1. Lamport by Pseudonym · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's Leslie Lamport, not Leslie Lambert. If you didn't know that, then you're not a true LaTeX user.

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    1. Re:Lamport by Pseudonym · · Score: 3, Informative

      FYI, Barbara Liskov won the Turing Award a few years ago.

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  2. Official Announcement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The linked article is poorly informed, not to mention full of typos.

    Here is the official announcement, straight from the ACM.