IP: 2001 Turing Award

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:41:00 -0600
> To: chapman () lists cc utexas edu
> From: Gary Chapman <gary.chapman () mail utexas edu>
>
> Please feel free to pass on this message:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I'm happy to pass on the news that the 2001 Turing Award, the highest 
> award in computer science, has been awarded to Johan Dahl and Kristen 
> Nygaard of Norway, for their invention of object-oriented programming, the 
> most widely used programming paradigm in the world today.
>
> The formal citation of the award is on the Web at 
> http://www.acm.org/announcements/turing_2001.html. The Association for 
> Computing Machinery will present the A.M. Turing Award, its most 
> prestigious technical honor, at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on April 27, 
> 2002, at the University of Toronto in Canada.
>
> It has been my privilege and honor to serve on the selection committee for 
> the Turing Award, in a group of five people, and I am particularly pleased 
> by this year's award. Congratulations, Kristen!
>
> Best to all,
>
> -- Gary
>
> Gary Chapman
> LBJ School of Public Affairs
> University of Texas at Austin
> Austin, TX
> gary.chapman () mail utexas edu
>
>
>
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