Communications - July 2009

Previous A. M. Turing Award Recipients

1966 A. J. Perlis 1967 Maurice Wilkes 1968 R. W. Hamming 1969 Marvin Minsky 1970 J.H. Wilkinson 1971 John McCarthy 1972 E. W. Dijkstra 1973 Charles Bachman 1974 Donald Knuth 1975 Allen Newell 1975 Herbert Simon 1976 Michael Rabin 1976 Dana Scott 1977 John Backus 1978 Robert Floyd 1979 Kenneth Iverson 1980 C.A.R Hoare 1981 Edgar Codd 1982 Stephen Cook 1983 Ken Thompson 1983 Dennis Ritchie 1984 Niklaus Wirth 1985 Richard Karp 1986 John Hopcroft 1986 Robert Tarjan 1987 John Cocke 1988 Ivan Sutherland 1989 William Kahan 1990 Fernando Corbató 1991 Robin Milner 1992 Butler Lampson 1993 Juris Hartmanis 1993 Richard Stearns 1994 Edward Feigenbaum 1994 Raj Reddy 1995 Manuel Blum 1996 Amir Pnueli 1997 Douglas Engelbart 1998 James Gray 1999 Frederick Brooks 2000 Andrew Yao 2001 Ole-Johan Dahl 2001 Kristen Nygaard 2002 Leonard Adleman 2002 Ronald Rivest 2002 Adi Shamir 2003 Alan Kay 2004 Vinton Cerf 2004 Robert Kahn 2005 Peter Naur 2006 Frances E. Allen 2007 Edmund Clarke 2007 E. Allen Emerson 2007 Joseph Sifakis 2008 Barbara Liskov

ACM A.M. TURING AWARD
NOMINATIONS SOLICITED

Nominations are invited for the 2009 ACM A. M. Turing Award. This, ACM’s oldest and most prestigious award, is presented for contributions of a technical nature to the computing community. Although the long-term influences of the nominee’s work are taken into consideration, there should be a particular outstanding technical achievement that constitutes the principal claim to the award. The award carries a prize of $250,000 and the recipient is expected to present an address that will be published in an ACM journal. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by the Intel Corporation and Google Inc.

Nominations should include:

1) A curriculum vitae, listing publications, patents, honors, other awards, etc.
2) A letter from the principal nominator, which describes the work of the
nominee, and draws particular attention to the contribution which is seen
as meriting the award.

3) Supporting letters from at least three endorsers. The letters should not all be from colleagues or co-workers who are closely associated with the nominee, and preferably should come from individuals at more than one organization. Successful Turing Award nominations usually include substantive letters of support from a group of prominent individuals broadly representative of the candidate’s field.