The A.M. Turing Award sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of Computing, was named in honor of Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954), a British mathematician logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. Alan Turing made many advances in computer architecture, algorithms, formalization of computing, and artificial intelligence. He is also known as The Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to the one who is selected for contributions in a technical community of computing. With this award a prize of $250,000 is given, with financial support provided by Intel and Google. Raj Reddy is the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994 for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF ALAN TURING:
- During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's code breaking center. He used a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers (encrypted text), including the method of the bomb.
- He created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer.
- He also joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University and developed the Manchester computers.
On 23rd June 2012, 100th birthday of Alan Turing was celebrated.
