New ACM Turing Award Winners website
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
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Thomas Haigh