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    Computing". The award is named after Alan Turing, who was a British mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester. Turing is often...
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    Cambridge, Turing's alma mater, is called the Turing Room. The Turing Room at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics houses a bust of Turing by Eduardo...
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    Good–Turing frequency estimation Object-Oriented Turing (programming language) Super-Turing computation Turing-acceptable language Turing Award Turing (cipher)...
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    Yann LeCun (category Turing Award laureates)
    Bottou. In 2018, LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton, received the Turing Award for their work on deep learning. The three are sometimes referred to...
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    SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others. Ten Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories. The laboratory began...
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    Frances Allen (category Turing Award laureates)
    become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization...
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  • Technology International Hall of Fame inductees Timeline of computing Turing Award Women in computing Mario Tokoro, ed. (2010). "9". e: From Understanding...
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    John Backus (category Turing Award laureates)
    influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?" The IEEE awarded Backus the W. W. McDowell Award in 1967 for...
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    Judea Pearl (category Turing Award laureates)
    In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental...
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  • Professor of Computer Science (1995–2001) and recipient of the 1995 Turing Award, for "his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity...
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