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Alan J Perlis 1966 Yale University

Alan J Perlis 1966

Yale University

For his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction.

Maurice V. Wilkes 1967 Olivetti

Maurice V. Wilkes 1967

Olivetti

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 Bell Labs

Richard W. Hamming 1968

Bell Labs

For his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes.

Marvin Minsky 1969 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marvin Minsky 1969

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For his central role in creating, shaping, promoting, and advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence.

James Hardy Wilkinson 1970 National Physical Laboratory

James Hardy Wilkinson 1970

National Physical Laboratory

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 Carnegie Mellon University

Allen Newell 1975

Carnegie Mellon University

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.

Robin 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 Stanford University

Edward A Feigenbaum 1994

Stanford University

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 Carnegie Mellon University

Edmund M Clarke 2007

Carnegie Mellon University

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Barbara Liskov 2008

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 Harvard University

Leslie G Valiant 2010

Harvard University

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 University of California, Los Angeles

Judea Pearl 2011

University of California, Los Angeles

For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.

Shafi Goldwasser 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Shafi Goldwasser 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Silvio Micali 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 Microsoft

Leslie Lamport 2013

Microsoft

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California Berkeley

Michael Stonebraker 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of California Berkeley

For fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.

Martin Hellman 2015 Stanford University

Martin Hellman 2015

Stanford University

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 Stanford University Sun Microsystems

Whitfield Diffie 2015

Stanford University

Sun Microsystems

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sir Tim Berners-Lee 2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale.

David Patterson 2017 University of California Berkeley

David Patterson 2017

University of California Berkeley

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 Stanford University

John L Hennessy 2017

Stanford University

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 Google

Geoffrey E Hinton 2018

Google

For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Yann LeCun 2018 Facebook

Yann LeCun 2018

Facebook

For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Yoshua Bengio 2018 Université de Montréal

Yoshua Bengio 2018

Université de Montréal

For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Edwin E Catmull 2019 Walt Disney Animation Studios

Edwin E Catmull 2019

Walt Disney Animation Studios

For fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics, and the impact of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.

Patrick M Hanrahan 2019 Stanford University

Patrick M Hanrahan 2019

Stanford University

For fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics, and the impact of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.

Alfred V Aho 2020 Columbia University

Alfred V Aho 2020

Columbia University

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 Stanford University

Jeffrey D Ullman 2020

Stanford University

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