And of course there isn't a Nobel Prize in computer science since the field wasn't well defined then. But the Turing award has similar criteria to Nobel prizes

And of course there isn't a Nobel Prize in computer science since the field wasn't well defined then. But the Turing award has similar criteria to Nobel prizes and is treated as the equivalent. http://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-there-a-Nobel-Prize-for-computer-science http://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-there-a-Nobel-Prize-for-comput...