Michael Stonebraker Wins the 2014 ACM Turing Award

In December 2004, Michael Stonebraker was selected to receive the 2005 IEEE John von Neumann Medal for his "contributions to the design, implementation, and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems." Mike is the first ...

Former IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors member Thomas W. Williams recently received the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council’s Lifetime Contribution Award.

The A. M. Turing Award is made annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM-q.v.) "for contributions of a technical nature in the computing community." The award, which currently includes a prize of $25,000, memorializes the extraordinary ...