alt Hacker NewsThere is! ACM grants several awards for scientists and more.
One such award is the Turing Award [1], given "for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science."
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hn_throwaway_99 • yesterday at 7:03 PM
The Turing Award is given for breakthroughs in computer science, not for "most productive programmer of all time", and it wouldn't be appropriate for Ballard.
senbrow • yesterday at 9:09 PM
Fabrice is certainly very skilled in CS, but his achievements are more in software implementation IMO.
AIUI the Turing award is primarily CS focused.
Possibly more relevant is the "ACM Software System Award": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACM_Software_Syst...