the Turing Award

Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness

friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrization: A new barrier i...

Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth, who devised nine programming languages and won the Turing Award in 1984, dies at 89

The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the Turing Award for his work on Ethernet at the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s

In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.

Turing Award goes to Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho for their work on compilers, which underpin computer programming languages

all without making a big fuss. https://news.stanford.edu/... Guido van Rossum / @gvanrossum : This year's Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman, the authors of the very fine Dragon Book. I have a first ...

Frances Allen, who conducted groundbreaking work on software compilers in the 1960s and won the Turing Award in 2006, has died at 88

Cade Metz / New York Times :

Frances Allen, who conducted groundbreaking work on software compilers in the 1960s and won the Turing Award in 2006, has died at 88

One of the few women in the computer industry in its early days, she paved the way for the efficient, lightning-fast apps of today.