Alan J Perlis
1966
For his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction.
Maurice V. Wilkes
1967
Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.
Richard W. Hamming
1968
For his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes.
Marvin Minsky
1969
For his central role in creating, shaping, promoting, and advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence.
James Hardy Wilkinson
1970
For his research in numerical analysis to facilitiate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations in linear algebra and backward error analysis.
John McCarthy
1971
Dr. McCarthys lecture The Present State of Research on Artificial Intelligence is a topic that covers the area in which he has achieved considerable recognition for his work.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
1972
For fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge; for eloquent insistence and practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly, not just debugged into correctness; for illuminating perception of problems at the foundations of program design.
Charles William Bachman
1973
For his outstanding contributions to database technology.
Donald Ervin Knuth
1974
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the art of computer programming through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.
Allen Newell
1975
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequentially with numerous faculty and student collegues at Carnegie-Mellon University, Newell and co-recipient Herbert A. Simon made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
Herbert Alexander Simon
1975
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequentially with numerous faculty and student collegues at Carnegie-Mellon University, Simon and co-recipient Allen Newell made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
Dana Stewart Scott
1976
Along with Michael O. Rabin, for their joint paper Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem, which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their (Scott & Rabin) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field.
Michael O. Rabin
1976
Along with Dana S. Scott, for their joint paper Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem, which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their (Scott & Rabin) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field.
John Backus
1977
For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages.
Robert W Floyd
1978
For having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, and for helping to found the following important subfields of computer science: the theory of parsing, the semantics of programming languages, automatic program verification, automatic program synthesis, and analysis of algorithms.
Kenneth E. Iverson
1979
For his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice.
C. Antony R. Hoare
1980
For his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages.
Edgar F. Codd
1981
For his fundamental and continuing contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems.
Stephen Arthur Cook
1982
For his advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way. His seminal paper, The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures, presented at the 1971 ACM SIGACT Symposium on the Theory of Computing, laid the foundations for the theory of NP-Completeness. The ensuing exploration of the boundaries and nature of NP-complete class of problems has been one of the most active and important research activities in computer science for the last decade.
Dennis M. Ritchie
1983
With Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.
Kenneth Lane Thompson
1983
With Dennis M. Ritchie, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.
Niklaus E. Wirth
1984
For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. PASCAL has become pedagogically significant and has provided a foundation for future computer language, systems, and architectural research.
Richard Manning Karp
1985
For his continuing contributions to the theory of algorithms including the development of efficient algorithms for network flow and other combinatorial optimization problems, the identification of polynomial-time computability with the intuitive notion of algorithmic efficiency, and, most notably, contributions to the theory of NP-completeness. Karp introduced the now standard methodology for proving problems to be NP-complete which has led to the identification of many theoretical and practical problems as being computationally difficult.
John E Hopcroft
1986
With Robert E Tarjan, for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.
Robert Endre Tarjan
1986
With John E Hopcroft, for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.
John Cocke
1987
For significant contributions in the design and theory of compilers, the architecture of large systems and the development of reduced instruction set computers (RISC); for discovering and systematizing many fundamental transformations now used in optimizing compilers including reduction of operator strength, elimination of common subexpressions, register allocation, constant propagation, and dead code elimination.
Ivan Sutherland
1988
For his pioneering and visionary contributions to computer graphics, starting with Sketchpad, and continuing after.
William Morton Kahan
1989
For his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis. One of the foremost experts on floating-point computations. Kahan has dedicated himself to making the world safe for numerical computations!
Fernando J Corbato
1990
For his pioneering work organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, CTSS and Multics.
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner
1991
For three distinct and complete achievements: LCF, the mechanization of Scotts Logic of Computable Functions, probably the first theoretically based yet practical tool for machine assisted proof construction;ML, the first language to include polymorphic type inference together with a type-safe exception-handling mechanism;CCS, a general theory of concurrency.In addition, he formulated and strongly advanced full abstraction, the study of the relationship between operational and denotational semantics.
Butler W Lampson
1992
For contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing.
Juris Hartmanis
1993
With Richard E. Stearns, in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory.
Richard Edwin Stearns
1993
With Juris Hartmanis, in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory.
Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy
1994
For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology.
Edward A Feigenbaum
1994
For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology.
Manuel Blum
1995
In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking.
Amir Pnueli
1996
For seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and system verification.
Douglas Engelbart
1997
For an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision.
James Nicholas Gray
1998
For seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.
Frederick Brooks
1999
For landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
2000
In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity.
Kristen Nygaard
2001
With Ole-Johan Dahl, for ideas fundamental to the emergence of object oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67.
Ole-Johan Dahl
2001
With Kristen Nygaard, for ideas fundamental to the emergence of object oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67.
Adi Shamir
2002
Together with Leonard M. Adleman and Ronald Rivest, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice.
Leonard Max Adleman
2002
Together with Ronald Rivest and Adi Shamir, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice.
Ronald Linn Rivest
2002
Together with Leonard M. Adleman and Adi Shamir, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice.
Alan Kay
2003
For pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing.
Robert Elliot Kahn
2004
With Vinton Cerf, for pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internets basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking.
Vinton Gray Cerf
2004
With Robert E. Kahn, for pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internets basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking.
Peter Naur
2005
For fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming.
Frances Elizabeth Allen
2006
For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution. press release
E. Allen Emerson
2007
Together with Edmund Clarke and Joseph Sifakis, for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology that is widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.
Edmund M Clarke
2007
Together with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology that is widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.
Joseph Sifakis
2007
Together with Edmund Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology that is widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.
Barbara Liskov
2008
For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing.
Charles P. Thacker
2009
For the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer -- the Alto at Xerox PARC -- and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks (including the Ethernet), multiprocessor workstations, snooping cache coherence protocols, and tablet personal computers.
Leslie G Valiant
2010
For transformative contributions to the theory of computation, including the theory of probably approximately correct (PAC) learning, the complexity of enumeration and of algebraic computation, and the theory of parallel and distributed computing.
Judea Pearl
2011
For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.
Shafi Goldwasser
2012
Along with Silvio Micali, for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory.
Silvio Micali
2012
Along with Shafi Goldwasser, for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory.
Leslie Lamport
2013
For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks, safety and liveness, replicated state machines, and sequential consistency.
Michael Stonebraker
2014
For fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.
Martin Hellman
2015
For inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.
Whitfield Diffie
2015
For inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
2016
For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale.
David Patterson
2017
For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.
John L Hennessy
2017
For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.
Geoffrey E Hinton
2018
For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
Yann LeCun
2018
For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
Yoshua Bengio
2018
For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.
Edwin E Catmull
2019
For fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics, and the impact of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.
Patrick M Hanrahan
2019
For fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics, and the impact of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.
Alfred V Aho
2020
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.
Jeffrey D Ullman
2020
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.