This year's ACM Turing Award goes to...
Dr. Peter Naur
best known as inventor of the Backus-Naur Form (BNF) for specifying the syntax of (programming) languages.
From the ACM announcement:
Dr. Naur was instrumental in establishing software engineering as a discipline. In 1960, Dr. Naur was editor of the hugely influential "Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60." He is recognized for the report's elegance, uniformity and coherence, and credited as an important contributor to the language's power and simplicity. The report made pioneering use of what later became known as Backus-Naur Form (BNF) to define the syntax of programs. BNF is now the standard way to define a computer language. Dr. Naur is also cited for his contribution to compiler design and to the art and practice of computer programming.
Congratulations!
Posted by guenter at March 2, 2006 05:37 PM