William Kahan
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William "Velvel" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his funda
Kahan in 2008
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
William Kahan
…June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis." Born to a Canadian Jewish family, he attended the University of Toronto, where he…
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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