ACM A.M Turing Lectures

2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Avi Wigderson delivered his Turing Award Lecture “Alan Turing: A TCS Role Model,” on Friday, June 28 at STOC 2024.  Wigderson discussed the ideas in Turing's papers, how they continue to evolve, and the many topics that Turing considered and had insights about. Learn more about Wigderson's contributions on the ACM AM Turing website. View his Turing Lecture on ACM's YouTube channel.

2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Bob Metcalfe delivered his Turing Lecture “Connectivity,” at The Web Conference 2023, on Sunday, April 30. In the lecture, Metcalfe examines the most impactful influence on the human condition in recent history—the Internet, which could not exist without Ethernet. He also reflects upon the history of Ethernet as well as its evolution and legacy. Learn more about Metcalfe’s contributions on the ACM AM Turing website. View his Turing Lecture on ACM's YouTube channel.

2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Jack Dongarra delivered his Turing Lecture, "A Not So Simple Matter of Software," at SC22 on Tuesday, November 15. In it, he examines how high-performance computing has changed over the last 40 years, looks toward future trends, and discusses how a new generation of software libraries and algorithms is needed to use dynamic, distributed, and parallel environments effectively. Learn more about Dongarra's contributions on the ACM AM Turing website. View his Turing Lecture on ACM's YouTube channel.

Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman received 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 and Ullman delivered their Turing Lecture, "Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers," via video on July 22, 2021. View the lecture on ACM's YouTube channel.

Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan received the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications. They presented their Turing Lectures, "Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems" and "The Wild, Unexpected, Exponential Ride Through Computer Graphics," at SIGGRAPH 2022 on Monday, August 8, 2022. View the recording on ACM's YouTube Channel.

2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Yoshua Bengio delivered his Turing Lecture at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) on Monday, September 23. Bengio received the 2018 A.M. Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. The title of Bengio's lecture is "Deep Learning for AI." The lecture is available for viewing on ACM's YouTube channel. 

Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun received the 2018 ACM Turing Award along with Yoshua Bengio for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing, Hinton and LeCun delivered the 2018 ACM Turing Lecture at ACM FCRC in Phoenix on June 23, 2019. The lecture is available on ACM's YouTube channel.

John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, recipients of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. They delivered the Turing Lecture at the ISCA conference on June 4, 2018. The lecture is available on ACM's YouTube channel.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee received the 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale. He delivered his Turing Award Lecture at the ACM Web Science Conference in Amsterdam on May 29, 2018. The lecture is available on ACM's YouTube channel.

Michael Stonebraker received the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems. Stonebraker is the inventor of many concepts that were crucial to making databases a reality. He delivered his Turing Lecture, "The Land Sharks Are on the Squawk Box," at ACM’s Federated Computing Research Conference in Portland, Oregon on June 14, 2015. View his Turing Lecture on ACM's YouTube channel.