1990 Turing Award

According to the Association for Computing Machinery, (ACM) the A.M. Turing Award is the most prestigious technical award with a prize of $250,000. The Turing Award is given to a member or members of the computing community that has contributed a major technical importance to the computer field. ("ACM's Turing Award.") The Turing Award has been named the “highest distinction in Computer science” and the “Nobel Prize of computing”. This award contributes to the ACM’s mission “to advance computing as a science and a profession”. (Geringer) The Turing Award is named after Alan Mathison Turing, a British mathematician, who is “credited for being the Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence”. (Homer) The first award was given out in 1966 and the Association for Computing Machinery has been giving them out every year since.
In 1990, Fernando José "Corby" Corbató received the Turing Award for his work in “organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems”. Corbató was born on July 1, 1926 in Oakland, California. He received his bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1950, and then went on to receive his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. After getting his Ph.D., he joined MIT’s Computation Center and soon was appointed Associate Professor in 1962. In 1965, he got promoted to a Professor and then during ...

1990 Turing Award

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