The International Association of Computing Machines (ACM) announced that the “Turing 2020” award, also known as “Nobel» Informatics, is awarded to Emeritus Computer Science Professors Alfred Vaino Aho (Columbia University of New York) and David Ullman (Stanford University of California), according to the APE.
During their many years of career, the two scientists developed pioneering algorithms, various other tools, and emblematic textbooks used by millions of software developers worldwide, such as the now-classic “Design and Analysis of Computational Algorithms” (1974). The Turing Prize – awarded since 1966 in honor of British mathematician and IT pioneer Alan Turing – is accompanied by $ 1 million, with financial support from Google.
Every program that “runs” today on a machine (computer, mobile phone, car, etc.), is written in a programming language, which is then “translated” into a lower level of code that can be executed by the machine. The technology of this “translation” – to a large extent – owes its beginning to Ahos and Ullman. It all started with the two (both Princeton University PhDs) working together at Bell Laboratories between 1967-1969 and then continued for decades.
“Aho and Ullman have been programming leaders since the early 1970s, and their work has guided successive generations of programmers and researchers to this day,” said ACM Austrian President Professor Gabriele Kotsis.
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