# ACM Turing Award Honors Jack J. Dongarra for Pioneering Concepts and Methods Which Have Resulted in World-Changing Computations
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/acm-turing-award-honors-jack-j-dongarra-for-pioneering-concepts-and-methods-which-have-resulted-in-world-changing-computations/78746
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**Created:** [March 30, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/acm-turing-award-honors-jack-j-dongarra-for-pioneering-concepts-and-methods-which-have-resulted-in-world-changing-computations/78746 "2022-03-30T14:22:32Z")
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### Author:  [@caleb-allen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/caleb-allen)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/acm-turing-award-honors-jack-j-dongarra-for-pioneering-concepts-and-methods-which-have-resulted-in-world-changing-computations/78746/1 "2022-03-30T14:22:32Z")
I thought this would be relevant to the Julia scientific computing community!
Jack J. Dongarra is the primary author of BLAS and LAPACK, without which scientific computing would be much more difficult!
> **[University of Tennessee’s Jack Dongarra receives 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award](https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/march/turing-award-2021)**
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> Dongarra recognized for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades.
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/acm-turing-award-honors-jack-j-dongarra-for-pioneering-concepts-and-methods-which-have-resulted-in-world-changing-computations/78746/2 "2022-03-30T16:20:52Z")
Huge congrats to Dr Dongarra! Well deserved and a significant recognition of the importance of numerical computing as a facet of computer science.
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### Author:  [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/acm-turing-award-honors-jack-j-dongarra-for-pioneering-concepts-and-methods-which-have-resulted-in-world-changing-computations/78746/3 "2022-03-31T20:39:12Z")
And here an interview to znet where he speaks of Julia:
> **[Jack Dongarra, who made supercomputers usable, awarded 2021 ACM Turing prize](https://www.zdnet.com/article/jack-dongarra-who-made-supercomputers-usable-awarded-2021-acm-turing-prize/)**
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> He made supercomputing usable with programs such as LINPACK and BLAS and laid the groundwork for the democratization of supercomputing in the cloud.
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### Author:  [@caleb-allen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/caleb-allen)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/acm-turing-award-honors-jack-j-dongarra-for-pioneering-concepts-and-methods-which-have-resulted-in-world-changing-computations/78746/4 "2022-06-06T15:54:52Z")
By the way, here’s a link to a short video that was referenced in the Communications of the ACM for June of this year:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/703275036?h=597ab3f30c&app_id=122963