The Turing premium has grown to 1 million dollars

The organizers of the Turing Award said that the prize had grown to $ 1 million after a cash injection from Google. The Turing Award is awarded for brilliant achievements in the computer industry. The Association of Computing Machinery is currently able to pay a prize in money equivalent, comparable to the Nobel Prize. The nearest award will be held in March or February.

In the statement of the Association of Computer Technology, it is reported that an increase in the prize fund reflects the impact of computing innovations on people's lives. The prize is intended for engineers and scientists who have made brilliant progress in the field of computer technology.

Alexander Wolf, a professor at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and president of the Association of Computing Technology, said that the amount of the award makes it almost equal to the most prestigious prizes in the field of science and culture.

Wolf also thanked Google for supporting the Turing Award: "With the generous support of Google, we can identify the important role of computers in the transformation of the world and how we communicate, do business and have fun.

The award is named after Alan Turing and was established in 1996. Alan Turing was an outstanding British mathematician, whose work in the field of robotics, computers, artificial intelligence, cryptology and much more were widely recognized.

At the end of this year there will also be a movie called "The Game of Imitation", which is predicted by the Oscars of next year. The film with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role will tell of the stormy life of Alan Turing.

Stuart Feldman, Google's vice president of engineering, said in a statement that people who contribute to the field of computer science are important to be recognized.

Among the winners of the Turing Award, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf (work on the basic Internet communication protocols), as well as Douglas Engelbart - for developing technologies such as hypertext and a computer mouse.

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