The ACM Turing Award is a prestigious annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to individuals for their contributions to the field of computer science. Established in 1966, it is often regarded as the "Nobel Prize of Computing" and recognizes significant achievements that have lasting impact on the discipline. Winners of the Turing Award receive a monetary prize and are honored for their work in various areas, including algorithms, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. The award is named after Alan Turing, a pioneering computer scientist whose work laid the foundation for modern computing.