2001 Turing Award

[James_Althoff at i2.com]

[Keith Keller]
> Damn--I thought the award was for the person who best impersonated
> a Turing machine.  :)

[Mark McEahern]
>Do you have any nominees?

Seriously though, if you are interested in the history of object-oriented
programming, Simula (Dahl and Nygaard -- 2001 Turing Award winners) is a
fascinating place to start.

For example, check out:

SIMULA begin
  Graham M. Birtwistle, Ole-Johan Dahl, Bjoern Myhrhaug, and Kristen
Nygaard.
  Petrocelli/Charter, New York (1975).
  ISBN 0-88405-340-7.

http://www.isima.fr/asu/asubook.html

Of course, if you really want to dive into the primordial-soup mother lode
(of OO), go straight to Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad thesis (MIT 1963).

http://arc.cs.odu.edu:8080/dp9/getrecord/oai_rfc1807/0018.mit.theses/1963-10

Alan Kay -- the creator of Smalltalk -- has called Sketchpad "the most
astonishing piece of work ever done by a single person in the field of
computing" (paraphrasing).

Happy reading,

Jim