ACM Prize in Computing is the new name of honor for young innovators
The Association for Computing Machinery has changed the name of its annual award recognizing computing professionals for early-to-mid-career innovations from the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award to the ACM Prize in Computing, and boosted the value of the prize by $75K.
Good call on the name change. But not to be confused: the group's more famous AM Turing Award, given annually for major contributions of lasting importance to computing, is also known informally as the "Nobel Prize of Computing". (See also: "Crypto dream team of Diffiie & Hellman wins 2016 'Nobel Prize of Computing'")
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