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Hacker News - Ask HN: Why Claude Shannon didn't get a Turing award?


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I was looking through the list of Turing award winners and realised that Claude Shannon, the inventor of Information theory didn't receive one?

Why was this so? Is it compulsory that a Turing award recipients has to be part of the ACM? And he probably wasn't a member?


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