Last week, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is this year’s recipient of the Turing Award – the so-called Nobel Prize of of computing. ACM chose Sir Tim as the Turing Award winner in its 50th anniversary year for “inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the web to scale.” Sir Tim will also receive a $1 million prize provided by Google.
In response to the announcement, Sir Tim said:
“I’m humbled to receive the namesake award of a computing pioneer who showed that what a programmer could do with a computer is limited only by the programmer themselves. It is an honor to receive an award like the Turing that has been bestowed to some of the most brilliant minds in the world.”
Sir Tim will officially receive his award at the ACM annual banquet in San Francisco on June 24th.
