The A.M. Turing Award, the ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lasting 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 $1,000,000, which in recent years has been underwritten by Google, Inc.
This video provides an overview of the origins of the award.
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