[mcguire]

I don't believe anyone has received a Turing award for creating a working computer.

[tialaramex]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes

His Turing award citation: "Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program."

[jecel]

I think Wilkes got his award for his software contributions despite being well known for his hardware efforts.

The 2009 award to Chuck Thacker, on the other hand, was clearly based on his contributions to hardware. I have the impression that ACM had a change in policy around that time.

But officially I seem to be wrong:

https://amturing.acm.org/bysubject.cfm?cat=16 https://amturing.acm.org/bysubject.cfm?cat=15

In the "hardware" category Wilkes is listed as the only one, while Thacker, with Brooks, Cocke and Wilkes are in the "computer architecture" category.