Turing Award is the most famous award given by Association for computing Machinery, often recogonized as the nobel prize of computing.
the award recipients and the fields in which they earned the recognition can be found in the wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award
or
http://www.xtrj.org/turing.htm

R is designed for statistical computing and graphic technologies. it's simple to be extended by itself and c,c++ language.r is an official part of free software foundation's gnu projects, so it's not for profit organization in the public interest.R can be deployed on all the platforms and there are abundant documents about r language in its website and the internet.
more information you can refer to if u are interested on the lightweight but powerful language environment is listed as following.

homepage: http://www.r-project.org/
download mirror in china: http://mirrors.geoexpat.com/cran/