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Google increases Turing award to $1 million
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced an increase in the size of the Turing Award, which is considered the most prestigious in the field of computer science. Thanks to Google's ACM grant, the award is now $1 million, four times what it used to be.
Thus, the Turing Prize, often called the Nobel Prize in Computer Science, equaled it in terms of monetary reward.
"We value the fundamental contributions of scientists to computer science and want to help ACM tell the world about them and their achievements," - Google Vice President Stuart Feldman (Eng. lang.).
- The Turing Award is named after the outstanding English mathematician, logician and cryptographer Alan Turing. The prize was first awarded in 1966.
- Alan Turing is the theorist of artificial intelligence, the creator of the abstract computational "Turing machine" and the test for the presence of intelligence in computers. In addition, he worked for the British Government School of Codes and Cyphers and participated in the deciphering of the German Enigma code during World War II.