About the archive

Ideas worth understanding.

A companion to the Nobel Archive

This independent Curionode archive explains every ACM A. M. Turing Award from the inaugural 1966 edition through 2025: 60 award editions and 81 people. It is not affiliated with ACM or the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. The 2025 award was announced on 18 March 2026; award years and announcement dates are different.

Clear explanations, precise distinctions

The award titles, everyday explanations, analogies and conceptual diagrams are original editorial material. The roster and recognised contributions were checked against ACM award records, the 2026 ACM awards booklet and the Heidelberg Laureate Forum profiles. Subject groupings are our guide to overlapping fields; ACM does not award separate Turing prizes in those subjects.

Reading the country view

Birth locations and institutional countries at the time of the award answer different questions; neither is a citizenship list. Present-day labels are the default. Historical birthplace labels preserve changes such as Breslau in Germany, now Wrocław in Poland, and Colombo in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Institutional locations refer to documented award-period affiliations. Joint affiliations may place one person in several countries. Records without enough evidence remain unassigned. The data is a snapshot checked in October 2026.

Illustrated portraits & bilingual posters

The cartoon portraits were created with built-in image generation, using the Nobel Archive’s illustrated style. Portraits are editorial illustrations based on identified photographic likeness references, including Peter Badge’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum portraits and institutional archives. The references are credited below and on each biography. The displayed artwork is AI-generated, rather than an archival photograph. Small WebP thumbnails reduce bandwidth; the full PNG originals are kept outside the website bundle. Every award page includes a text transcript of its English or Simplified Chinese poster. The illustrations explain concepts and are not literal engineering drawings.

The infographic artwork

The current posters are conceptual vector diagrams. Replacement illustrated posters are being prepared in English and Simplified Chinese.

An archive that loads as you explore

The home page and infographic view start with twelve entries; the people and country views start with eighteen. More entries are requested as you scroll. Search and filtering fetch a compact metadata index only when needed. The full-size chart is loaded on its detail page or when opened, while lists use smaller previews. Every year and biography has a static page.

The original records

ACM A. M. Turing Award ↗awards.acm.org
ACM Awards 2026 booklet ↗awards.acm.org
Heidelberg Laureate Forum · Turing recipients ↗www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org

Portrait likeness references

Adi Shamir — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Alan Kay — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Alan Perlis — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Alfred Aho — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Allen Newell — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Amir Pnueli — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. New York University Courant Institute / Amir Pnueli memorial
Andrew Barto — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Andrew Yao — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Avi Wigderson — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Barbara Liskov — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Bob Metcalfe — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Butler Lampson — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Charles Bachman — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Charles H. Bennett — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Charles Thacker — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Dana Scott — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
David Patterson — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Dennis Ritchie — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. National Inventors Hall of Fame
Donald Knuth — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Douglas Engelbart — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
E. Allen Emerson — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Ed Catmull — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Edgar F. Codd — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. IBM historical collection
Edmund Clarke — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Edsger Dijkstra — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
Edward Feigenbaum — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Fernando Corbató — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Frances Allen — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Fred Brooks — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Geoffrey Hinton — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Gilles Brassard — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Herbert Simon — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Carnegie Mellon University / Herbert A. Simon memorial
Ivan Sutherland — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Jack Dongarra — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
James Wilkinson — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews / Royal Society obituary portrait
Jeffrey Ullman — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Jim Gray — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Jim Gray personal research archive / Microsoft Research
John Backus — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
John Cocke — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. IBM historical collection
John Hennessy — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
John Hopcroft — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
John McCarthy — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Stanford University School of Engineering
Joseph Sifakis — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Judea Pearl — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Juris Hartmanis — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Ken Thompson — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Kenneth Iverson — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Ben Shneiderman / Computer History Museum
Kristen Nygaard — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
Leonard Adleman — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Leslie Lamport — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Leslie Valiant — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Manuel Blum — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Martin Hellman — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Marvin Minsky — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Maurice Wilkes — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory historical collection
Michael Rabin — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Michael Stonebraker — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Niklaus Wirth — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Ole-Johan Dahl — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. University of Oslo Department of Informatics / Ole-Johan Dahl memorial
Pat Hanrahan — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Peter Naur — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Raj Reddy — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Richard Hamming — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
Richard Karp — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Richard Stearns — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Richard Sutton — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Robert Floyd — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Robert Kahn — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Robert Tarjan — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Robin Milner — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory / Robin Milner archive
Ronald Rivest — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Shafi Goldwasser — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Silvio Micali — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Stephen Cook — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Tim Berners-Lee — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Tony Hoare — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Vinton Cerf — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Whitfield Diffie — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
William Kahan — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Yann LeCun — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Yoshua Bengio — Original AI-generated illustration by Curionode. Peter Badge / Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation