图灵奖:历史与启示

Turing Award:History and Enlightenment

图灵奖的历史,从一个视角展现了计算机科学与技术发展的历程。从图灵奖获得者身上,人们会得到很多有益的启示。本文对1966年至2009年图灵奖获得者的国籍、学历、毕业学校、所学专业以及作出贡献时所处的年龄段进行统计和分析,通过研究他们的成长历程和成长环境,探寻优秀计算机科学人才的成长规律和创新教育经验,揭示西方发达国家高等教育的先进理念和教育方法,为我国高等计算机科学教育提供借鉴和启示。

The presentation of Turing Award history,from one perspective,presents the development of computer science and technology.Moreover,the spirit of Turing Award winners always gives us a lot of helpful enlightenment.Aimed at the Turing Award winners between 1966 and 2009,this paper firstly performes statistics and analyzes of the related data,including their nationality,education background,universities,specialty as well as ages when they made contributions.Then from their growth process and growth environment,we probes into the talents＇ growth rules and innovation education experiences,and reveales the advanced idea and education method of higher education in western developed countries which may provide beneficial enlightenment to the higher computer science education in our country.