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1:06pm on Sunday, 16th November, 2014:

Award Winners

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I've been aware of Alan Turing's work since my undergraduate days (Essex University's founding Professor of Computer Science, Tony Brooker, knew him). Because of this, I've also been aware of the Turing Award, which thanks to Google is now on a par with the Nobel Prize in terms of prize money at $1,000,000. It's a bit sad that the mathematical equivalent, the Fields Medal, comes with a prize valued at roughly a 75^th of the Turing Award's, but that's what happens when there are no multi-billionaire mathematics companies out there to fund it.

Anyway, because it was recently in the news, I wondered how many names of Turing Award's winners I recognised. Here's the full list of those I've heard of (ones in brackets being joint winners I haven't heard of but I've heard of the other one):

1966 Alan J. Perlis

1967 Maurice Wilkes

1969 Marvin Minsky

1971 John McCarthy

1972 Edsger W. Dijkstra

1974 Donald E. Knuth

1975 Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon

1976 Michael O. Rabin and Dana S. Scott

1977 John Backus

1980 C. Antony R. Hoare

1981 Edgar F. Codd

1983 Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie

1984 Niklaus Wirth

1991 Robin Milner

1993 (Juris Hartmanis and) Richard E. Stearns

1994 Edward Feigenbaum and Raj Reddy

1997 Douglas Engelbart

2001 (Ole-Johan Dahl and) Kristen Nygaard

2002 (Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and) Leonard M. Adleman

2003 Alan Kay

2004 Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn

2005 Peter Naur

2011 Judea Pearl

That's 23 years I've known a winner from, out of the 48 years that it's been awarded. I should probably look up one of the others so I can claim to know who they are and can make it a round half. I've actually met Wilkes, Dijkstra, Hoare and Milner, not that they'd remember me (especially the dead ones).

I note that none of the winners are game developers. This is probably just as well, given that if they did hand a Turing Award to a game developer it would probably go to someone who already has a million dollars.

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1966		Alan J. Perlis
1967		Maurice Wilkes
1969		Marvin Minsky
1971		John McCarthy
1972		Edsger W. Dijkstra
1974		Donald E. Knuth
1975		Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon
1976		Michael O. Rabin and Dana S. Scott
1977		John Backus
1980		C. Antony R. Hoare
1981		Edgar F. Codd
1983		Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie
1984		Niklaus Wirth
1991		Robin Milner
1993		(Juris Hartmanis and) Richard E. Stearns
1994		Edward Feigenbaum and Raj Reddy
1997		Douglas Engelbart
2001		(Ole-Johan Dahl and) Kristen Nygaard
2002		(Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and) Leonard M. Adleman
2003		Alan Kay
2004		Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
2005		Peter Naur
2011		Judea Pearl

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