Turing Award Winners Screensaver
The Turing Award Winners screensaver is a real, curated archive of Turing Award laureates — computing's highest honor, given annually by the ACM. It is free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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How the Turing Award Winners screensaver works
The saver rotates through a real, curated list of Turing Award laureates — computing's highest honor, given annually by the ACM, drawn from the award's own published history.
Each entry holds on screen for a few seconds before easing to the next.
The list is updated by hand once each real award season, not streamed live.
It runs entirely offline — no key and no connection needed.
The ACM A.M. Turing Award
The A.M. Turing Award is presented by the Association for Computing Machinery and named for the British mathematician Alan Turing. It is often called the Nobel Prize of computing. The first award went to Alan Perlis in 1966, with a citation for his influence in the area of advanced computer programming techniques and compiler construction.
The citations are the interesting part, because they name specific contributions rather than general careers. The award is sometimes given to one person and sometimes shared: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson shared it in 1983, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman in 2002, and Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun in 2018 for work on deep neural networks.
The prize has carried US$1 million since 2014, with financial support from Google; from 2007 to 2013 it was US$250,000, supported by Intel and Google. Awards are labelled by year but announced afterwards. As a curated archive the list is updated by hand, so the newest laureate may not appear immediately, and it omits many researchers whose contributions were just as fundamental.
A worked example
A real winner appears with its year, holds for a few seconds, then fades into the next real entry in the archive.
Settings & tips
- The Turing Award is given annually by the ACM for lasting contributions to computing.
- Accent recolours the text and highlights.
- Named for Alan Turing, a foundational figure in computer science.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real award history?
- Yes — a real, curated archive of Turing Award laureates — computing's highest honor, given annually by the ACM, drawn from the award's own published record.
- Does this update automatically?
- It's refreshed by hand once each real award season, not a live feed.
- Does it need an internet connection?
- No — it runs entirely offline once the page loads.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.
- Who was the first winner?
- Alan Perlis received the first Turing Award in 1966, for his influence in the area of advanced computer programming techniques and compiler construction.
- Can several people share a year?
- Yes. The award is sometimes divided between collaborators, as with Ritchie and Thompson in 1983 or Rivest, Shamir and Adleman in 2002.