TuringAwardLecture

The TuringAward lectures make great reading, and a GoogleSearch will turn up some of them. The rest can be accessed via AssociationForComputingMachinery's (non-free) Digital Library. Also see the book TheAcmTuringAwardLectures.

Some TuringAward lectures discussed on this Wiki (Clicking on the page title link above may help to reveal more.):

• CanProgrammingBeLiberatedFromTheVonNeumannStyle
• TheEmperorsOldClothes
• TheHumbleProgrammer
• ReflectionsOnTrustingTrust
• CombinatoricsComplexityAndRandomness
• AlanKayTuringAwardLecture: "First Courses In Computing Should Be Childs Play"

All of these are on the web.

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