Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Peter Naur Wins ACM’s Turing Award
ACM has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A. M. Turing Award, in recognition of his pioneering work on defining the Algol 60 programming language, and his contributions to compiler design. Algol 60 is the model for many later programming languages, including those that are indispensable software engineering tools today. The Turing Award, considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing” was first awarded in 1966, and is named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing.