[SIGCIS-Members] New ACM Turing Award Winners website

[Thomas Haigh]

Hello everyone,

Just though I'd share with you the new and much improved ACM website for the
Turing Award. There had been discussion for many years about improving the
old site, which just gave names and citations. The new was shepherded into
existence by Mike Williams,  whose been involved with computer history for
decades now including work as Annals Editor in Chief and curator at the
Computer History Museum.

http://amturing.acm.org/

It features biographical profiles with an explanation of the work for which
they won the award, lists of key publications, links to ACM digital library
materials, text and/or video of their lectures, photos, etc. I provided the
entries for Bachman, Wirth and Kahan and many others were contributed by
SIGCIS members such as Edgar Daylight, Dave Walden, and Martin
Campbell-Kelly.

So, if there are any Turing awardees for whom you've never been quite sure
what they did or who they were then now you have an easy way to answer these
questions and verify basic biographical details.

There are still a few unpopulated entries, but as it's featured prominently
and publicly on the ACM website and was intended to complement the recent
ACM Turing Centennial meeting (http://turing100.acm.org/ - lots of award
winners and no historians) I don't think I'm letting anything slip
prematurely here.

Tom