Interactions - November/December 2017

ACM A.M. TURING AWARD NOMINATIONS SOLICITED

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 2009 Charles P. Thacker 2010 Leslie G. Valiant 2011 Judea Pearl

2012 Shafi Goldwasser 2012 Silvio Micali 2013 Leslie Lamport 2014 Michael Stonebraker 2015 Whitfield Diffie 2015 Martin Hellman 2016 Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Nominations are invited for the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

This is ACM’s oldest and most prestigious award and is given to recognize contributions of a technical nature which are of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field.

The award is accompanied by a prize of $1,000,000.

Financial support for the award is provided by Google Inc.

Nomination information and the online submission form are available on: http://amturing.acm.org/call_for_nominations.cfm Additional information on the Turing Laureates is available on: http://amturing.acm.org/byyear.cfm The deadline for nominations/endorsements is January 15, 2018.