This is the de facto Nobel Prize in Computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award The Nobel Prizes were estab

This is the de facto Nobel Prize in Computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award The Nobel Prizes were established in 1895, before Alan Turing started the field of Computer Science.