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A. M. Turing Award

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Geoffrey Hinton • Vinton Cerf • Maurice Wilkes • Marvin Minsky • Douglas Engelbart • Robert Kahn • Allen Newell • Leslie Valiant • Fred Brooks • Leslie Lamport • Robin Milner • Ken Thompson • Judea Pearl • Michael Oser Rabin • James Nicholas Gray • Charles Bachman • Leonard M. Adleman • James H. Wilkinson • Dennis M. Ritchie • Michael Stonebraker • Richard Karp • Ronald L. Rivest • Ivan Sutherland • Dana Scott • Alan Jay Perlis • Andrew Chi-Chih Yao • Manuel Blum • Edgar Frank Codd • Adi Shamir • Robert W Floyd • Robert Endre Tarjan • Herbert A. Simon • Charles P. Thacker • Niklaus Emil Wirth • Frances E. Allen • Fernando Corbató • Donald Knuth • Tony Hoare • Peter Naur • Raj Reddy • Alan Kay • Juris Hartmanis • John McCarthy • Butler W. Lampson • John Hopcroft • Joseph Sifakis • Ole-Johan Dahl • Kenneth E. Iverson • Kristen Nygaard • Richard E. Stearns • John Warner Backus • Barbara Liskov • Amir Pnueli • Edmund M. Clarke • Stephen Arthur Cook • John Cocke • William Kahan • E. Allen Emerson • Richard Wesley Hamming

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