Bennett, Charles Henry and Brassard, Gilles were awarded for their essential role in igniting and shaping the quantum revolution in computer science and in information and communications technology 

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutt0n were awarded for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning

Avi Wigderson was awarded for the contributions to theoretical computer science include results that have elucidated both the power and limitations of randomness in computation. 

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 and Pat Hanrahan 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.