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I think there's some backlash against a google-able answer here.

However, from memory the list of biggest awards for CS/Math are:

Fields medal

Abel prize

Turing award

Godel award

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I don't think Geoff Hinton is in the running for a Fields medal[1] any more, unless they did what they did for Andrew Wiles and give him a "quantized" Fields medal.

[1] You have to be under 40. https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/jcfields/fields_medal...

Hinton was never in the running for a Fields medal since he never made a single contribution to the field of mathematics. His work is about empirical discoveries in CS.

Kanellakis award too for theoretical cs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Kanellakis_Award

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