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Yes, I know of the ACM. But why would I have expected a global scope 'Turing Award' to have anything to do with them? Was Turing a member?
by marshray 13y ago
Yes, I know of the ACM. But why would I have expected a global scope 'Turing Award' to have anything to do with them?
Was Turing a member?
- mbrubeck 13y agoThe official name of the award is the "ACM A.M. Turing Award" if that eases your fears about global namespace pollution. :) And it really is the "Nobel Prize of computer science"; the fact that not all practitioners have heard of it is just another indication of the sad divide between researchers and practitioners in our field. :(
- marshray 13y agoOn the bright side, I (a practitioner) browsed the list of past awardees and recognized the name and work of nearly all of them. It seems quite common for Nobel laureates' work to have been in such a specialized subfield that few people had even heard of it.