The A.M. Turing Award has been presented by the Association for Computing Machinery since 1966 to individuals judged to have made contributions of lasting technical importance to computing. It is named after the British mathematician Alan Turing, whose work helped establish the theoretical foundations of the field.

The first recipient was the American computer scientist Alan Perlis. The award may be shared, and recent prizes have carried a cash sum of one million US dollars, funded by Google. Winners are normally announced in the spring and honoured at a ceremony later in the year.

Recipients include Edsger Dijkstra, Donald Knuth and Tony Hoare for work on algorithms and programming languages; Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn for internet protocols; Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web; and Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for advances in deep learning. Frances Allen became the first woman to receive it, in 2006.