Chuck Thacker wins Turing Award

2,260 views · Published 9 March 2010 · 3:42 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Microsoft Research · 2010 · Science & Technology

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Congratulations Chuck, for winning the 2009 Turing Award, an honor, richly deserved. Citation: For the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer -- the Alto at Xerox PARC -- and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks (including the Ethernet), multiprocessor workstations, snooping cache coherence protocols, and tablet personal computers.
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