A.M. Turing Award. Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering / en Alumnus Alfred Aho wins A.M. Turing Award /celebrates/alumnus-alfred-aho-wins-am-turing-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Alumnus Alfred Aho wins A.M. Turing Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-01T11:46:27-04:00" title="Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 11:46" class="datetime">Thu, 04/01/2021 - 11:46</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">ֱ</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/am-turing-award-faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">A.M. Turing Award. Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/alumni" hreflang="en">ֱ</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/2B7A3595-750.jpg" width="1140" height="760" alt="Alfred Aho"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo by Roberta Baker)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>University of Toronto Engineering alumnus <strong>Alfred Aho </strong>and his collaborator, Jeffrey Ullman, are the 2020 A.M. Turing Award recipients.</p> <p>They received the award&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href="https://amturing.acm.org/">widely considered the&nbsp;Nobel Prize of computing</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;for their influential work in algorithms and compilers.</p> <p>“It’s impossible to overstate the significance of Professor Aho’s foundational contributions to programming and software engineering,” says Professor&nbsp;<strong>Will Cluett,</strong> director of Engineering Science. “He is a towering figure in the field, and an inspiration to classes of Engineering Science students, past, present and future.”</p> <p>Aho, the Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of computer science at Columbia University, graduated from ֱ's&nbsp;Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering in 1963 and received an honorary degree from ֱ in 2015.</p> <p>“The software researchers develop today would not be possible without the fundamental work of Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman. They helped define the modern programming industry, and therefore shaped the very world around us,” says&nbsp;Professor <strong>Chris Yip</strong>, dean of ֱ Engineering. “On behalf of ֱ Engineering, my enthusiastic congratulations on this incredibly prestigious recognition.</p> <p>“We have long been tremendously proud to call Professor Aho a ֱ Engineering alumnus.”</p> <h3><a href="/news/nobel-prize-computing-u-t-engineering-alumnus-alfred-aho-receives-am-turing-award">Read the ֱ News story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:46:27 +0000 lanthierj 168958 at