Robert M. Metcalfe was awarded for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet. 

Jack J. Dongarra was awarded for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries, enabling high-performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements. 

Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey Ullman were awarded for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists. 

Ed Catmull, a computer scientist and former president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, and Pat Hanrahan, a founding employee at Pixar and Stanford University professor, received the award for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications. 

Geoffrey Hinton's talk, entitled, "The Deep Learning Revolution" and Yann LeCun's talk, entitled, "The Deep Learning Revolution: The Sequel." 

John Hennessy and David Patterson delivered their Turing Lecture titled “A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Domain-Specific Hardware/Software Co-Design, Enhanced Security, Open Instruction Sets, and Agile Chip Development,” the talk will cover recent developments and future directions in computer architecture. 

Sir Tim Berners-Lee received the award for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale. Considered one of the most influential computing innovations in history, the World Wide Web is the primary tool used by billions of people every day to communicate, access information, engage in commerce, and perform many other important activities. 

Whitfield Diffie received the award for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.