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20 About the Forum Abel Prize The Abel Prize is an international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstand- ing mathematicians. Named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal have often been described as the “Mathematician’s Nobel Prizes”. It comes with a monetary award of Nor- wegian krone (NOK) 6 millions (approximately US$1 million). www.abelprize.no Turing Award The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machi- nery (ACM) to “an individual selected for con- tributions of a technical nature made to the computing community”. The Turing Award is recognized as the “highest distinction in com- puter science” and “Nobel Prize of Computing”. The award is named after Alan Mathison Turing, mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester. As of 2007, the award is accompanied by a prize of US$250,000. http://amturing.acm.org/ The Awards