2010 Turing Award Goes To Microsoft’s Thacker
This morning I read in the WSJ about the Turing award for this year given to Charles Thacker. I must admit I did not now much about Charles Thacker, he being mostly from the hardware side of the business.
For those not familiar with this award, it is the highest honor given to contributions in computer science. Some call it the equivalent of a Nobel prize. It comes with a check of $250K and a citation. The late Dr. Ted Codd, pioneer of relational database theory received it back in 1981. The late Jim Gray got it in 1998 for his pioneering work on the “ACID properties of a database” and here is a short article by Mike Stonebraker on why Gray got it. Charles Bachman got it way back in 1973 for inventing the concept of a DBMS based on his work on IDS which became IDMS in Cullinet.
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