Biography
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010) was a British computer scientist , and he won the 1991 ACM Turing Award . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Milner was born in Yealmpton , near Plymouth , England into a military family. He gained a King's Scholarship to Eton College in 1947, and was awarded the Tomline Prize (the highest prize in Mathematics at Eton) in 1952. Subsequently, he served in the Royal Engineers , attaining the rank of Second Lieutenant. He then enrolled at King's College, Cambridge , graduating in 1957. [ 10 ] Milner first worked as a schoolteacher then as a programmer at Ferranti , before entering academia at City University, London , then Swansea University , Stanford University , and from 1973 at the University of Edinburgh , where he was a co-founder of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS). He returned to Cambridge as the head of the Computer Laboratory in 1995 from which he eventually stepped down, although he was still at the laboratory. From 2009, Milner was a Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance Advanced Research Fellow and held (part-time) the chair of computer science at the University of Edinburgh . Milner died of a heart attack on 20 March 2010 in Cambridge. [ 4 ] [ 11 ] His wife, Lucy, died shortly before he did. [ 12 ] Fields: Computer science Education: King's College, Cambridge BA Award Citation: Turing Award (1991) [ 1 ] FRS DFBCS FRSE Foreign Associate, NAE
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)