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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Wins $1 Million Turing Award 2016

Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web — has won this year’s A.M. Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Turing Award is named after Alan Mathison Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of German Enigma cipher and

Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize

And the Winners of this year’s Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman.

The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”.

Turing Award named after Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician and computer