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  • ACM A. M. Turing Award (1977)

ACM A. M. Turing Award

USA - 1977

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For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages.

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