Each year, the Association for Computing Machinery honors a computer scientist for his or her contributions to the field. The prize, which comes with $250,000 thanks to Google and Intel, is named in honor of the British mathematician Alan Turing, who helped develop a theoretical foundation for understanding machine computation. This year, the award is being given to Leslie Valiant, who's currently on Harvard's faculty. Valiant is cited for his contributions to a number of fields, including machine learning, computational complexity, and parallel and distributed computing—the list of achievements appears to be truly staggering.
Like Turing himself, several of Valiant's contributions have provided a theoretical understanding of basic problems that have helped us make a number of practical advances.
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