Grace Murray Hopper Award
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The original Grace Murray Hopper Awards (named for computer pioneer RADM
Grace Hopper
) have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a young (age 35 or less) computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution.
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Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language...
) have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a young (age 35 or less) computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution.
Recipients
- 1971 Donald E. Knuth
- 1972 Paul H. Dirksen
- 1972 Paul H. CressPaul H. CressPaul H. Cress was a Canadian computer scientist.He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler called WATFOR , for the IBM...
- 1973 Lawrence M. BreedLawrence M. BreedLawrence M. Breed is a computer scientist, artist and inventor, best known for his involvement in the APL programming language.- Career :While at Stanford University in 1961, he created the first computer animation language, MACS, and demonstrated it publicly with Earl Boebert.While getting his M.S...
- 1973 Richard H. LathwellRichard H. LathwellRichard H. Lathwell was the 1973 recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery....
- 1973 Roger MooreRoger Moore (computer scientist)Roger D. Moore was the 1973 recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery...
- 1974 George N. Baird
- 1975 Allen L. Scherr
- 1976 Edward H. ShortliffeEdward H. ShortliffeEdward Hance Shortliffe, MD, PhD is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician and computer scientist. Dr. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine...
- 1977 no award
- 1978 Raymond KurzweilRaymond KurzweilRaymond "Ray" Kurzweil is an American author, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition , text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments...
- 1979 Steve WozniakSteve WozniakStephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...
- 1980 Robert M. Metcalfe
- 1981 Daniel S. Bricklin
- 1982 Brian K. Reid
- 1983 no award
- 1984 Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. is a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming and the principal architect, designer and implementor of five generations of Smalltalk environments. He designed the bytecoded virtual machine that made Smalltalk practical in 1976...
- 1985 Cordell Green
- 1986 William N. Joy
- 1987 John OusterhoutJohn OusterhoutJohn Kenneth Ousterhout is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl...
- 1988 Guy L. Steele
- 1989 W. Daniel HillisW. Daniel HillisWilliam Daniel "Danny" Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT...
- 1990 Richard StallmanRichard StallmanRichard Matthew Stallman , often shortened to rms,"'Richard Stallman' is just my mundane name; you can call me 'rms'"|last= Stallman|first= Richard|date= N.D.|work=Richard Stallman's homepage...
- 1991 Feng-hsiung HsuFeng-hsiung HsuFeng-hsiung Hsu is a computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion...
- 1992 no award
- 1993 Bjarne StroustrupBjarne StroustrupBjarne Stroustrup ; born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language...
- 1994-1995 no award
- 1996 Shafrira Goldwasser
- 1997-1998 no award
- 1999 Wen-mei HwuWen-mei HwuWen-mei Hwu is a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing. He currently holds the Walter J. Sanders III-Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer...
- 2000 Lydia KavrakiLydia KavrakiLydia E. Kavraki is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and a professor of bioengineering at Rice University and a professor of structural and computational biology and molecular biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine...
- 2001 George NeculaGeorge NeculaGeorge Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on software verification and formal methods. He is best known for his Ph.D...
- 2002 Ramakrishnan Srikant
- 2003 Stephen W. Keckler
- 2004 Jennifer Rexford
- 2005 Omer ReingoldOmer ReingoldOmer Reingold is a faculty member of the Foundations of Computer Science Group at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He received the 2005 Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in finding a deterministic logarithmic-space algorithm for ST-connectivity in undirected graphs...
- 2006 Daniel Klein
- 2007 Vern PaxsonVern PaxsonVern Edward Paxson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also works as an Internet researcher based at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His interests range from transport protocols to intrusion detection and worms...
- 2008 Dawson Engler
- 2009 Tim Roughgarden
- 2010 Craig Gentry
External links
- The ACM homepage for the Grace Murray Hopper Awards