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The ACM Turing Award is for computer science, not building software. The ACM Software System award is more relevant here. https://awards.acm.org/software-syst
by chubot 4y ago
The ACM Turing Award is for computer science, not building software. The ACM Software System award is more relevant here.
https://awards.acm.org/software-system/award-winners https://awards.acm.org/software-system/award-winners
For example, Richard Stallman (GNU) and Chris Lattner (LLVM) have both won the software system award, but it seems unlikely for them to be considered for a Turing award.