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Table 5.1
Turing Awards from 1966 to 2012
All of the Turing recipients are deserving of the awards. However, a thoughtful
analysis of the list shows that software management is somewhat underrepresen-
ted. Fred Brooks is present, but probably Dr. Barry Boehm deserves an award for
his contributions to measurement and estimation, and Allan Albrecht deserves an
award for the invention of function point metrics. I would think that Steve Jobs is
worthy of an award for the full suite of Apple innovations under his leadership.
A host of useful innovations occurred under Thomas J. Watson, Jr., when he was
Chairman of IBM. In fact, Watson personally directed several software-quality ini-
tiatives and was the visionary sponsor of the S/360 line.
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