Turing Award
People tagged with Turing Award.
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Joseph Sifakis
Greek-French computer scientist who independently pioneered model checking
Born 1946
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John McCarthy
Computer scientist who coined the term “artificial intelligence” and invented Lisp
1927 – 2011
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John L. Hennessy
RISC pioneer, former Stanford president and chairman of Alphabet
Born 1952
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John Hopcroft
Computer scientist known for fundamental algorithms and a classic textbook
Born 1939
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John Backus
IBM engineer who led the creation of Fortran, the first widely used high-level language
1924 – 2007
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Jim Gray
Database pioneer who made reliable transaction processing possible
1944 – 2012
Jeffrey Ullman
Stanford computer scientist and textbook author on compilers, databases and algorithms
Born 1942
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Yoshua Bengio
Canadian deep-learning pioneer and one of the “godfathers of AI”
Born 1964
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William Kahan
Mathematician known as the father of floating-point arithmetic
Born 1933
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Whitfield Diffie
Co-inventor of public-key cryptography
Born 1944
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Tony Hoare
British computer scientist who invented Quicksort and Hoare logic
1934 – 2026
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Stephen Cook
Computer scientist who formulated the P versus NP problem
Born 1939
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Silvio Micali
Italian-American cryptographer and founder of the Algorand blockchain
Born 1954
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Shafi Goldwasser
Cryptographer who co-invented zero-knowledge proofs
Born 1958
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Ron Rivest
MIT cryptographer and the “R” in the RSA encryption system
Born 1947
Robin Milner
British computer scientist who created the ML language and theories of concurrency
1934 – 2010
Robert W. Floyd
Computer scientist who pioneered proving that programs are correct
1936 – 2001
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Robert Tarjan
Computer scientist who designed many of the fundamental graph algorithms and data structures
Born 1948
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Richard S. Sutton
Canadian-American scientist who founded modern reinforcement learning
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Richard M. Karp
Computer scientist who showed that many everyday problems are NP-complete
Born 1935
Richard Hamming
Mathematician at Bell Labs who invented error-correcting Hamming codes
1915 – 1998
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Richard E. Stearns
Co-founder of computational complexity theory with Juris Hartmanis
1936 – 2026
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Raj Reddy
Indian-American AI pioneer and the first Asian-born winner of the Turing Award
Born 1937
Ole-Johan Dahl
Norwegian co-inventor of Simula, the first object-oriented programming language
1931 – 2002