Biography
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS [ 1 ] (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis , a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1970 he won the ACM Turing Award . Born in Strood , England, he won a Foundation Scholarship to Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester . [ 6 ] He studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge , where he graduated as Senior Wrangler . [ 7 ] Taking up war work in 1940, he began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory [ 2 ] in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing on the ACE [ 8 ] computer project. Later, Wilkinson's interests took him into the numerical analysis field, where he discovered many significant algorithms . Fields: Numerical Analysis, Numerical linear algebra Education: Trinity College, Cambridge BA Award Citation: Chauvenet Prize (1987) ACM Turing Award (1970) FRS (1969) [ 1 ]
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
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)