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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who has won 2015 ACM Turing Award
A
Michael Stonebraker
B
Leslie Lamport
C
Martin E. Hellman Whitfield Diffie
D
Raj Reddy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Whitfield Diffie, former Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems and Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, recipients of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award for critical contributions to modern cryptography.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dabbala Rajagopal “Raj” Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-born American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years.

Detailed explanation-3: -The latest recipient, in 2021, is Jack Dongarra, of the University of Tennessee.

Detailed explanation-4: -UT’s Jack Dongarra wins 2022 Turing Award for supercomputer research-Protocol.

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