There is! ACM grants several awards for scientists and more.

One such award is the Turing Award [1], given "for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award

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svat 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Possibly more relevant is the "ACM Software System Award": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACM_Software_Syst...

	▲	AtlasBarfed 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Linux and Torvalds hasn't gotten one?

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hn_throwaway_99 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Turing Award is given for breakthroughs in computer science, not for "most productive programmer of all time", and it wouldn't be appropriate for Ballard.

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senbrow 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fabrice is certainly very skilled in CS, but his achievements are more in software implementation IMO.

AIUI the Turing award is primarily CS focused.