Turing Award
People tagged with Turing Award.
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Ole-Johan Dahl
Norwegian co-inventor of Simula, the first object-oriented programming language
1931 – 2002
Science
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist who designed the Pascal programming language
1934 – 2024
Science
Michael O. Rabin
Israeli computer scientist who brought randomness and nondeterminism into computing
1931 – 2026
Science
Maurice Wilkes
British computer pioneer who built EDSAC, one of the first stored-program computers
1913 – 2010
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician who laid the foundations of reliable numerical computing
1919 – 1986
Science
Jack Dongarra
Creator of the numerical libraries and benchmarks behind supercomputing
Born 1950
Science
Ivan Sutherland
Father of computer graphics, creator of Sketchpad and the first VR headset
Born 1938
Science
Fred Brooks
IBM System/360 manager and author of The Mythical Man-Month
1931 – 2022
Science
Frances Allen
IBM compiler pioneer and the first woman to win the Turing Award
1932 – 2020
Science
Fernando J. Corbató
MIT pioneer of time-sharing and creator of the computer password
1926 – 2019
Science
Edward Feigenbaum
Stanford scientist known as the father of expert systems
Born 1936
Science
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist famous for the shortest-path algorithm and structured programming
1930 – 2002
Science
Edmund M. Clarke
Co-inventor of model checking, used to verify chips and software
1945 – 2020
Edgar F. Codd
IBM researcher who invented the relational model behind modern databases
1923 – 2003
Film & TV
Ed Catmull
Computer-graphics pioneer and co-founder of Pixar
Born 1945
Science
E. Allen Emerson
Co-inventor of model checking and Turing Award winner
1954 – 2024
Science
Douglas Engelbart
Inventor of the computer mouse and pioneer of interactive computing
1925 – 2013
Science
Donald Knuth
Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of the TeX typesetting system
Born 1938
Science
Dennis Ritchie
Creator of the C programming language and co-creator of Unix
1941 – 2011
Science
Dana Scott
Logician who gave programming languages a mathematical meaning
Born 1932
Science
Charles P. Thacker
Engineer who designed the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer
1943 – 2017
Science
Butler Lampson
Xerox PARC engineer behind the personal computer and many networking ideas
Born 1943
Technology
Bob Metcalfe
Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com
Born 1946
Science
Bob Kahn
Co-inventor of TCP/IP and architect of the internet’s design
Born 1938