Reading Journal: Turing Award Lecture

For our final reading, you will select a Turing Award lecture to watch or read. You can find a complete list of Turing Award winners at https://amturing.acm.org/lectures.cfm. Please do not select Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie, as we’ve already read a Turing lecture from that year. Any other winner whose work connects with systems research is acceptable (including Liskov and Gray—we did not read their Turing lectures).

Choose an award that you believe is related to systems research, read the biography of the award winner, and follow the link to the lecture video or transcript and read that as well. Send your responses to the instructor by email with the subject [Advanced OS] Reading Journal: Turing Winner. Please review your responses for spelling and grammatical errors before sending them, and make a final editing pass to ensure your thoughts are clearly expressed and organized before sending them.

Questions

1. Whose Turing Award lecture did you select?
2. Tell me about the award winner. If this is someone we’ve already discussed, try to share some new information about their career and contributions that we did not discuss in class.
3. What work did the honoree’s Turing Award recognize? Briefly summarize the work and its impact.
4. What was the focus of the honoree’s lecture? Was it different from their honored work?
5. Choose one key idea from the lecture, include it as a quotation in yor response, and describe how that idea changes the way you think about computer science. (4–5 sentences)
6. Would you recommend this Turing Award lecture to other CS students? Why or why not?