Biography
Charles William Bachman III (December 11, 1924 – July 13, 2017) was an American computer scientist , who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher, developer, and manager rather than in academia. He was particularly known for his work in the early development of database management systems . His techniques of layered architecture include his namesake Bachman diagrams . He won the 1973 ACM Turing Award . Charles Bachman was born in Manhattan, Kansas , in 1924, where his father, Charles Bachman Jr. , was the head football coach at Kansas State College . He attended high school in East Lansing, Michigan , where his father served as head football coach at Michigan State College from 1933–1946. In World War II he joined the United States Army and spent March 1944 through February 1946 in the South West Pacific Theater serving in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Corps in New Guinea, Australia, and the Philippine Islands. There he was first exposed to and used fire control computers for aiming 90 mm guns. [ 2 ] Fields: Computer science Education: University of Pennsylvania BS Michigan State University MS Award Citation: Turing Award (1973) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2012) ACM Fellow (2014)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
Browse More
Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)