Turing Award
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The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recogniz
Statue of Alan Turing
The Turing Award of 1983, given to Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, on display at Nokia Bell Labs.
Maurice Vincent Wilkes 1980
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Gilles Brassard
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Gilles Brassard is a Canadian computer scientist. He is faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001. He shared the
Turing Award
…to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing". As of 2026, 81 people have been awarded the prize, with the most recent recipients being Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who won in 2025. The award is named after Alan Turing, also referred as "Father of Computer Science", who was a British mathematician and reader in…
Gilles Brassard (2019)