Turing Award lecture

979 Acm Turing Award Lecture

The 1979 /KCM Turing Award was pre>emed io Kenne@ E. tverson by Wal~er ('orison, Chairman of @e Awards ( 'ommmee. a~ the ACM Aanuat Cord%fence in L)etroi< Michigan, October 29, 1979, In making i~s :seiec~iom {he Genera! Technk'at Achievemem Award (iota-. mittee cited Iverson for his pioneering etTbr~ m programming hmguages and mathematical notation restJltmg in what @e computing field now knows...

Turing Award Lecture Reflections on Software Research

The A CM A. M. Turing Award for 1983 was presented to Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken L. Thompson of A T & T Bell Laboratories at the Association's Annual Conference in October for their development and implementation of the UNIX operating system. The UNIX time-sharing system was conceived by Thompson and developed jointly with Ritchie in the late 1~60's. A key contribution to the portability of the ...

Turing Award Lecture on Complexity and Np-completeness

Turing Award Micropipelines

The pipeline processor is a common paradigm for very high speed computing machinery. Pipeline processors provide high speed because their separate stages can operate concurrently, much as different people on a manufacturing assembly line work concurrently on material passing down the line. Although the concurrency of pipeline processors makes their design a demanding task, they can be found in ...

Award Lecture

I had the pleasure of first meeting and spending two unforgettable hours with Glen Fry in 1971. I was soon to complete my undergraduate studies at Indiana University, had applied to the Indiana University optometry program, and was interested in the program at Ohio State. So I traveled to Columbus for an interview. Glenn Fry met me and personally escorted me around the facility. I had no clue a...