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Distinguished Lecture Series
by Prof. Niklaus Wirth, January 2015

A.M. Turing Award The A.M. Turing Award, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lastin`g importance to computing. Recipients are invited to give the annual A.M. Turing Award Lecture. The award is also accompanied by a cash prize of USD$250,000, which in recent years has been underwritten by the Intel Corporation and Google, Inc. The Official website (http://amturing.acm.org/) celebrates all the winners since the award's creation in 1966. It contains biographical information, a description of their accomplishments, straightforward explanations of their fields of specialization, and text or video of their A. M. Turing Award Lecture.
	Alan M. Turing (1912 - 1954) The A.M. Turing Award, sometimes referred as the "Nobel Prize" of Computing, was named in honor of Alan Mathison Turing (1912 - 1954), a British mathematician and computer scientist. He made fundamental advances in computer architecture, algorithms, formalization of computing, and artificial intelligence. Turing was also instrumental in British code-breaking work during World War II.
The Imitation Game A recent movie about Alan Turing - The Imitation Game (http://theimitationgamemovie.com/) Source: http://tube.hk		Other Related Links Hong Kong Computer Society The Alan Turing Centenary Homepage Alan Turing (Wikipedia) Alan Turing Year in Hong Kong on Facebook