Question

A. M. Turing award is considered as the Nobel Prize in the field of computers, given annually by Association for Computing Machinery co-sponsored by Intel and Google. Who was A. M. Turing in whose memory the award was instituted?

• A. First Chairman of Intel.
• B. A British Mathematician.
• C. The legendary Dean of Stanford who revolutionized the computer education in the US.
• D. An US cognitive scientist in the field of artificial Intelligence (AI) and co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory.

Hint:

Think about the mathematician who is regarded as the father of theoretical computer science and who broke the Enigma code in World War II.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Turing Machine concept underlies all modern computers; ACM instituted the award in 1966 in his honor. He was British, not American, and died in 1954 before MIT's AI Lab existed.

Final Answer: Option (2).