Computer Pioneer Award

{{Short description|Award conferred by the IEEE Computer Society}}

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| name = IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award

| awarded_for = Outstanding contributions to the concepts and development of the computer field

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| year = 1981

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The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier. The recognition is engraved on a silver medal specially struck for the Society.

This award has now been renamed to "Women of the ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award".{{cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/pioneer|title=Women of the ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award, IEEE Computer Society|date=9 April 2018 }}

Award types

The award has two types of recipients:

Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients - At the inauguration of this award, the individuals who already meet the Computer Pioneer Award criteria and also have received IEEE Computer Society awards prior to 1981.
Computer Pioneer Recipients - Awarded annually since 1981.

Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients

Howard H. Aiken - Large-Scale Automatic Computation
Samuel N. Alexander - SEAC
Gene M. Amdahl - Large-Scale Computer Architecture
John W. Backus - FORTRAN
Robert S. Barton - Language-Directed Architecture
C. Gordon Bell - Computer Design
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - Compatible Computer Family System/IBM 360
Wesley A. Clark - First Personal Computer
Fernando J. Corbato - Timesharing
Seymour R. Cray - Scientific Computer Systems
Edsger W. Dijkstra - Multiprogramming Control
J. Presper Eckert - First All-Electronic Computer: ENIAC
Jay W. Forrester - First Large-Scale Coincident Current Memory
Herman H. Goldstine - Contributions to Early Computer Design
Richard W. Hamming - Error-correcting code
Jean A. Hoerni - Planar Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
Grace M. Hopper - Automatic Programming
Alston S. Householder - Numerical Methods
David A. Huffman - Sequential Circuit Design
Kenneth E. Iverson - APL
Tom Kilburn - Paging Computer Design
Donald E. Knuth - Science of Computer Algorithms
Herman Lukoff - Early Electronic Computer Circuits
John W. Mauchly - First All-Electronic Computer: ENIAC
Gordon E. Moore - Integrated Circuit Production Technology
Allen Newell - Contributions to Artificial Intelligence
Robert N. Noyce - Integrated Circuit Production Technology
Lawrence G. Roberts - Packet Switching
George R. Stibitz - First Remote Computation
Shmuel Winograd - Efficiency of Computational Algorithms
Maurice V. Wilkes - Microprogramming
Konrad Zuse - First Process Control Computer
See external list of [http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/awards/pioneer Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients]

Computer Pioneer Recipients

Source: [http://www.computer.org/web/awards/pioneer IEEE Computer Society]

class="wikitable" ! Year !! Recipient !! Significant contribution
rowspan=2\|2023	Daniel S. Bricklin	For creating VisiCalc, the progenitor of the modern spreadsheet.
\|Scott Shenker	For pioneering contributions to scheduling and management of packet-switched networks, impacting the theory and practice of communication networks.
rowspan=2\|2022	Daphne Koller	For contributions to representation, inference, and learning in probabilistic models with applications to computational biology and human health.
\|Christos Papadimitriou	For fundamental contributions to Computer Science, via the development of the theory of algorithms and complexity, and its application to the natural and social sciences.
rowspan=2\|2021	Peter J. Denning	For seminal contributions to virtual memory, the Internet infrastructure, and computing education.
\|Moti Yung	For transformative innovations in "Trust in Computation;" specifically, coinventing "Malicious Cryptography", and pioneering contributions to "Distributed Cryptosystems".
rowspan=2\|2020	Demetri Terzopoulos	For a leading role in developing computer vision, computer graphics, and medical imaging through pioneering research that has helped unify these fields and has impacted related disciplines within and beyond computer science.
\|Jack Dongarra	For leadership in the area of high-performance mathematical software.
rowspan=2\|2019	Laura Haas	For pioneering innovations in the architecture of federated databases and in the integration of data from multiple, heterogeneous sources.
\|Jitendra Malik	For a leading role in developing Computer Vision into a thriving discipline through pioneering research, leadership, and mentorship.
rowspan=4\|2018	Barbara Liskov	for "pioneering data abstraction, polymorphism, and support for fault tolerance and distributed computing in the programming languages CLU and Argus." ([https://www.computer.org/web/pressroom/liskov-2018-computer-pioneer-award source])
\| Bjarne Stroustrup	For pioneering C++.
\| Larry Page	For the creation of the Google search engine and leadership in creating ambitious products and research initiatives.
\| Sergey Brin	For the creation of the Google search engine and leadership in creating ambitious products and research initiatives.
\|2016	E. Grady Booch	For pioneering work in Object Modeling that led to the creation of the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
\|2015	Michael J. Flynn	For more than 50 years of leadership including the creation of TCCA and SIGARCH.
\|2015	Peter M. Kogge	For developing algorithms for recurrence, development of the multi-core microprocessor chip and the formalization of methods for designing the control of a computer pipeline.
\|2014	Linus Torvalds	For pioneering development of the Linux kernel using the open-source approach.
\|2013	Edward Feigenbaum	For development of the basic principles and methods of knowledge-based systems and their practical applications.
\|2013	Stephen Furber	For pioneering work as a principal designer of the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.
\|2012	Cleve Moler	For improving the quality of mathematical software, making it more accessible and creating MATLAB.
\|2011	David Kuck	For pioneering parallel architectures including the Illiac IV, the Burroughs BSP, and Cedar; and, for revolutionary parallel compiler technology including Parafrase and KAP Tools.
rowspan=2\|2009	Jean E. Sammet	For pioneering work and lifetime achievement as one of the first developers and researchers in programming languages.
\|Lynn Conway	For contributions to superscalar architecture, including multiple-issue dynamic instruction scheduling, and for the innovation and widespread teaching of simplified VLSI design methods.
rowspan=3\|2008	Betty Jean Jeanings Bartik	Programmer including co-leading the first teams of ENIAC programmers, and pioneering work on BINAC and UNIVAC I
\|Edward J. McCluskey	Design and synthesis of digital systems over five decades, including the first algorithm for logic synthesis (the Quine-McCluskey method)
\|Carl A. Petri	Petri net theory (1962) and then parallel and distributed computing
rowspan=2\|2006	Mamoru Hosaka	Computing in Japan
\|Arnold M. Spielberg	Real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes
\|2004	Frances E. Allen	Theory and practice of compiler optimization
\|2003	Martin Richards	System software portability through the programming language BCPL widely influential and used in academia and industry for a variety of prominent system software
rowspan=2\|2002	Per Brinch Hansen	Operating systems and concurrent programming, exemplified by work on the RC 4000 multiprogramming system, monitors, and Concurrent Pascal
\|Robert W. Bemer	ASCII, ASCII-alternate sets, and escape sequences
rowspan=2\|2001	Vernon Schatz	Electronic Funds Transfer which made possible computer to computer commercial transactions via the banking system
\|William H. Bridge	Computer and communications technology in the GE DATANET-30
rowspan=3\|2000	Harold W. Lawson	Inventing the pointer variable and introducing this concept into PL/I
\|Gennady Stolyarov	Minsk series computers' software, of the information systems' software
\|Georgy Lopato	Belarus of the Minsk series computers' hardware, of the multicomputer complexes and of the RV family of mobile computers for heavy field conditions
\|1999	Herbert Freeman	SPEEDAC of Sperry Corporation, and computer graphics and image processing
\|1998	Irving John (Jack) Good	Field of computing as a Cryptologist and statistician during World War II at Bletchley Park, as an early worker and developer of the Colossus at Bletchley Park and on the University of Manchester Mark I, the world's first stored program computer
rowspan=2\|1997	Homer (Barney) Oldfield	Banking applications ERMA, and computer manufacturing
\|Francis Elizabeth (Betty) Snyder-Holberton	Sort-merge generator for the Univac and compilation
rowspan=19\|1996	Angel Angelov	Computer science technologies in Bulgaria
\|Richard F. Clippinger	Converted the ENIAC to a stored program at Aberdeen Proving Ground
\|Edgar Frank Codd	Abstract model for database management
\|Norber Fristacky	Digital devices
\|Victor M. Glushkov	Digital automation of computer architecture
\|[https://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/gruska/ Jozef Gruska]	Theory of computing and organizational activities
\|Jiri Horejs	Informatics and computer science
\|Lubomir Georgiev Iliev	Computing in Bulgaria; 1st Bulgarian computers; abstract mathematics and software
\|Robert E. Kahn	TCP/IP protocols and the Internet program
\|László Kalmár	1956 logical machine and the design of the MIR computer in Hungary
\|Antoni Kiliński	First commercial computers and informatics (computer science) curriculum in Poland,
\|László Kozma	1930 relay machines, and early computers in post-war Hungary
\|Sergey A. Lebedev	Designed and constructed the first computer in the Soviet Union and founded the Soviet computer industry
\|Alexey A. Lyaponov	Soviet cybernetics and programming
\|Romuald W. Marczynski	Polish digital computers and computer architecture
\|Grigore C. Moisil	Polyvalent logic switching circuits
\|Ivan Plander	Computer hardware technology into Slovakia and the control computer
\|Arnold Reitsakas	Estonia's computer age
\|Antonín Svoboda	Computer research in Czechoslovakia and SAPO and EPOS computers
rowspan=5\|1995	Gerald Estrin	Early computers
\|David Evans	Computer graphics
\|Butler Lampson	Personal Computer
\|Marvin Minsky	Artificial intelligence
\|Kenneth Olsen	Minicomputers
rowspan=4\|1994	Gerrit A. Blaauw	IBM System/360 Series
\|Harlan B. Mills	Structured Programming
\|Dennis M. Ritchie	rowspan=2\|Unix
\|Ken L. Thompson
rowspan=3\|1993	Erich Bloch	High speed computing
\|Jack S. Kilby	Co-inventing the integrated circuit
\|Willis H. Ware	Design of IAS and JOHNNIAC computers
rowspan=2\|1992	Stephen W. Dunwell	Project stretch
\|Douglas C. Engelbart	Human computer interaction
rowspan=3\|1991	Bob O. Evans	Compatible computers
\|Robert W. Floyd	Compilers
\|Thomas E. Kurtz	BASIC
rowspan=2\|1990	Werner Buchholz	Computer architecture
\|C.A.R. Hoare	Programming languages definitions
rowspan=7\|1989	John Cocke	Instruction pipelining and RISC concepts
\|James A. Weidenhammer	High speed I/O mechanisms
\|Ralph L. Palmer	IBM 604 electronic calculator
\|Mina S. Rees	rowspan=4\|ONR Computer R&D development beginning in 1946
\|Marshall C. Yovits
\|F. Joachim Weyl
\|Gordon D. Goldstein
rowspan=2\|1988	Friedrich L. Bauer	Computer stacks
\|Marcian E. Hoff, Jr.	Microprocessor on a chip
rowspan=4\|1987	Robert R. Everett	Whirlwind
\|Reynold B. Johnson	RAMAC
\|Arthur L. Samuel	Adaptive non-numeric processing
\|Niklaus E. Wirth	Pascal
rowspan=4\|1986	Cuthbert C. Hurd	Computing
\|Peter Naur	Computer language development
\|James H. Pomerene	IAS and Harvest computers
\|Adriann van Wijngaarden	ALGOL 68
rowspan=6\|1985	John G. Kemeny	BASIC
\|John McCarthy	LISP and artificial intelligence
\|Alan Perlis	Computer language translation
\|Ivan Sutherland	Graphics Sketchpad
\|David J. Wheeler	Assembly language programming
\|Heinz Zemanek	Computer and computer languages for Mailüfterl
rowspan=5\|1984	John Vincent Atanasoff	Electronic computer with serial memory
\|Jerrier A. Haddad	IBM 701
\|Nicholas C. Metropolis	Solved atomic energy problems on ENIAC
\|Nathaniel Rochester	Architecture of IBM 702 electronic data processing machines
\|Willem L. van der Poel	Serial computer ZEBRA
rowspan=2\|1982	Harry D. Huskey	Parallel computer SWAC
\|Arthur Burks	Electronic computer logic design
\|1981	Jeffrey Chuan Chu	Electronic computer logic design

Nomination process

All members of the profession are invited to nominate a colleague who they consider most eligible to be considered for this award. The nomination deadline is 15 October of each year.