Turing’s Children: How Computer Science Made the Modern World
Author(s): Devdatt Dubhashi, Alessandro Panconesi, and Gerardo Schneider(Collection III)
In 1966, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the professional association for Computer Science instituted the Turing Award. It is an annual prize given to an individual selected for contributions "of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field." The Turing Award is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and the "Nobel Prize of computing". Since the first winner in 1966, there have been 71 Turing prize winners and Turing's children continue to flourish. Our aim in this book is to explain the revolutionary ideas of Turing and tell the story of how these ideas have been developed by the Turing prize winners (and others) to create our modern world — from Google search to self-driving cars and ChatGPT, to bitcoin and DNA testing.
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