The ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1975

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community". It is stipulated that "The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field".^[1] The Turing Award is recognized as the "highest distinction in Computer science"^[2] and "Nobel Prize of computing".^[3]


The award is named after Alan Turing, mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester. Turing is "frequently credited for being the Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence".^[4] As of 2007, the award is accompanied by a prize of $250,000, with financial support provided by Intel and Google.^[1]

Allen Newell and
Herbert A. Simon In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequentially with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing