from <https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/march/turing-award-2020>
"A.M. TURING AWARD HONORS INNOVATORS WHO SHAPED THE FOUNDATIONS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE COMPILERS AND ALGORITHMS
Columbia's Aho and Stanford's Ullman Developed Tools and Fundamental Textbooks Used by Millions of Software Programmers around the World
New York, NY, March 31, 2021 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman
recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental algorithms
and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly
influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists.
Aho is the Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Columbia University. Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor
Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University.
Computer software powers almost every piece of technology with which we interact. Virtually every program running our world—from those on our phones or in our cars to programs running on giant server farms inside
big web companies—is written by humans in a higher-level programming language and then compiled into lower-level code for execution. Much of
the technology for doing this translation for modern programming
languages owes its beginnings to Aho and Ullman.
Beginning with their collaboration at Bell Labs in 1967 and continuing
for several decades, Aho and Ullman have shaped the foundations of programming language theory and implementation, as well as algorithm
design and analysis. They made broad and fundamental contributions to
the field of programming language compilers through their technical contributions and influential textbooks. Their early joint work in
algorithm design and analysis techniques contributed crucial approaches
to the theoretical core of computer science that emerged during this
period.
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