The best people in the IT world were nominated
This year, the Turing Award (The ACM A.M. Turing Award) which recognizes the merits in the field of computing and computers worldwide, was given to two winners, who will also share the million dollars.
Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull, founders of Pixar animation studios, won the 2019 Turing Award, according to an announcement posted Wednesday on the official website of the distinction.
"Hanrahan and Catmull's innovations have paved the way for what today's 3D animation movie mean", says the Association for Computing Machinery, which offers the Turing award.
Patrick M. Hanrahan (born 1955) is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, as well as scientific illustration and visualization. He also has received numerous awards.
Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American retired computer scientist and former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics.
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan have fundamentally influenced the field of computer graphics through conceptual innovation and contributions to both software and hardware.
Three researches have won the 2018 Turing Award, known as the 'Nobel Prize of computing' for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI): Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
The A. M. Turing Award is a distinction awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery "to a person chosen for the technical contributions to the IT community".
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