[IP] ACM 2005 Turing Award winner announced]

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: ACM 2005 Turing Award winner announced
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:49:05 +0000
From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk>
To: dave@farber.net

Hi Dave:

I'm delighted to be able to inform you, and IP if you wish, that the
ACM have today announced that the winner of the 2005 Turning award is
Dr Peter Naur: "For fundamental contributions to programming language
design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the
art and practice of computer programming."

Their press release is at:

http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/2_2006/awards05.cfm

Cheers

Brian

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