A.M. Turing Award ACM

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that its annual A.M. Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize in Computing, will now come with a $1M award courtesy of Google.

Since 2007, the award came with a $250K prize funded by Google and Intel.

The award, which goes to “an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community,” is generally doled out in February or March, and the new bigger prize will go into effect with the awarding of the 2014 winner next year. This past March, the winner was Microsoft Research principal Leslie Lambert, a distributed computing wrangler. 

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