ACM Award Winners

Every year ACM honors select individuals for their achievements and contributions in the areas of education, theory and practice, and service to the computing community.

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ACM A.M. Turing Award

Barbara Liskov
Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences

Jon Kleinberg
Tisch University Professor, Cornell University

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Software System Award

The Gamma Parallel Database System
David J. DeWitt
Microsoft; University of Wisconsin-Madison (Emeritus)
Robert Gerber
Microsoft
Murali M. Krishna
Hewlett-Packard
Donovan A. Schneider
Yahoo!
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
University of Southern California
Goetz Graefe
Hewlett-Packard
Michael Heytens
RGM Advisors
Hui-I Hsiao
IBM
Jeffrey F. Naughton
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anoop Sharma
Hewlett-Packard

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ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award

Barbara J. Grosz
Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Joseph Y. Halpern
Professor, Cornell University

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Grace Murray Hopper Award

Dawson Engler
Associate Professor, Stanford University

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Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award

John E. Hopcroft
IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Cornell University

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Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award

Corinna Cortes
Head, Google Research, New York
Vladimir Vapnik
Fellow, NEC Laboratories/Columbia University

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Distinguished Service Award

Telle Whitney
President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute

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Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award

Wayne Graves
Director of Information Systems, ACM
Bernard Rous
Deputy Director of Publications and Electronic Publishing Program Director, ACM

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ACM Fellows

Sanjeev Arora
Princeton University
Hari Balakrishnan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kenneth L. Clarkson
IBM Alma-den Research Center
Jason (Jingsheng) Cong
University of California at Los Angeles
Jack W. Davidson
University of Virginia
Umeshwar Dayal
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Xiaotie Deng
City University of Hong Kong
Jose J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
University of California Santa Cruz; Palo Alto Research Center
Patrick Hanrahan
Stanford University
Charles H. House
Stanford University MediaX Program
Alan C. Kay
Viewpoints Research Institute
Joseph A. Konstan
University of Minnesota
Roy Levin
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
P. Geoffrey Lowney
Intel Corporation
Jitendra Malik
University of California Berkeley
Kathryn S. McKinley
University of Texas at Austin
J. Ian Munro
University of Waterloo
Judith S. Olson
University of California at Irvine
Hamid Pirahesh
IBM Almaden Research Center
Brian Randell
Newcastle University
Michael K. Reiter
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan S. Rose
University of Toronto
Mendel Rosenblum
Stanford University
Tuomas Sandholm
Carnegie Mellon University
Vivek Sarkar
Rice University
Mark S. Squillante
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Per Stenström
Chalmers University of Technology
Douglas Terry
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

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Doctoral Dissertation Award

Constantinos Daskalakis
Microsoft Research Lab

Honorable Mention:

Derek Hoiem
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sachin Katti

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ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award

Susan Eggers
Microsoft Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

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ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics

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Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award

Eugene Spafford
Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University

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ACM-IEEE CS

Eckert-Mauchly Award

Joel Emer
Fellow, Intel Corporation

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