Google compete with the Nobel Prize of computer scientists

Google compete with the Nobel Prize of computer scientists

No longer computer scientists need to feel jealous of the Nobel Prize winners, at least from the financial point of view, after Google American Company for Internet Services has decided to increase the value of Excellence Award in the field of computer that bears the name "Turing Award" to four times the current value of one million dollars.

The award carries the name of a mathematician lecturer at Manchester University, Alan Turing (1912-1954) one of the founders of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. The value of the award during the period from 2007 to 2013, $ 250 thousand with the support of my company Intel and Google.

Although there is no prize for Computer Science within the Nobel prize, the Turing Award has become a very rewarding financially after large grant that Google announced its submission, and made it compares the value of the Nobel Prize amounting to (starting in 2012) of $ 1.2 million.

And transfer CNET site for technology news for Prime World Federation of computer equipment, Alexander Wolff, saying that with "the generous support of Google we can celebrate the year the role of computing in the world and change the way we communicate and our management of the business and enjoy the entertainment."

He pointed out that since the site that Alfred Nobel made a fortune to finance global peace prize in science and scientific and technological research strongly changed. And became the discoveries of physics and chemistry scientists play a major role in the development of computers, as happened with the owner of the invention of the optical diode (L E D), which is now used in the tablet computer screens, smart phones and laptops.

Google is focusing its resources are currently in the development of the finest programming and design of algorithms and systems levels, the areas covered by the Turing Award.

Said Stuart Feldman, Google Vice President of the Engineering Affairs, "We believe that it is important to recognize thanks to the people who provide essential contributions in computer science, and we want to help the Union of computer equipment in these innovators and reward contributions that build this world."

Francis (left) was the first woman to win the Turing Award (Associated Press-archive)

The Union of computer equipment Turing Award has been awarded in recent years for innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, encryption, and free Unix operating system and Ethernet networks and computer fees and programming language "Samul tock."

It is noteworthy that the first recipient of the Turing Award was American Alan Perlis of Carnegie Mellon University in 1966, for his role in the field of advanced programming techniques and building code converters, while the US Frances Ellen from ibm first woman to receive the prize and that the 2006 peer-leading contributions theoretical and practical in improving the compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern software adapters.

The American computer scientist Leslie Lamport another of those got the award last year, and that match the fundamental theoretical and practical contributions in distributed and concurrent systems.

Source: German