Roger Needham Award
{{Short description|Academic award}}
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| name = Roger Needham Award
| awarded_for = “important contributions made to computer science research”
| date = {{start date|2004}}
| reward = Gift of £5,000
| sponsor = Microsoft Research
British Computer Society
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| website = {{URL|https://www.bcs.org/more/awards-and-competitions/roger-needham-award/}}
}}The Roger Needham award is a prize given scientists who are recognised for important contributions made to computer science research The British Computer Society established an annual Roger Needham Award in honour of Roger Needham in 2004. It is a £5000 prize is presented to an individual for making "a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK-based researcher within ten years of their PhD." The award is funded by Microsoft Research. The winner of the prize has an opportunity to give a public lecture.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcs.org/more/awards-and-competitions/roger-needham-award/|title=Roger Needham Award | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT|website=www.bcs.org}}
Laureates
Since 2004, laureates have included:
- 2004 Jane Hillston on Tuning Systems: From Composition to Performance
- 2005 Ian Horrocks on Ontologies and the Semantic Web
- 2006 Andrew Fitzgibbon on Computer Vision & the Geometry of Nature
- 2007 Mark Handley on Evolving the Internet: Challenges, Opportunities and Consequences
- 2008 Wenfei Fan on A Revival of Data Dependencies for Improving Data Quality
- 2009 Byron Cook on Proving that programs eventually do something good
- 2010 {{ill|Joel Ouaknine|qid=Q80637103}} on Timing is Everything
- 2011 Maja Pantić on Machine Understanding of Human Behaviour
- 2012 {{ill|Dino Distefano|qid=Q16547901}} on Memory Safety Proofs for the Masses
- 2013 {{ill|Boris Motik|qid=Q64851991}} on Theory and Practice: The Yin and Yang of Intelligent Information Systems
- 2014 {{ill|Natasa Przulj|qid=Q21264447}} on Mining Biological Networks
- 2015 {{ill|Niloy Mitra|qid=Q59753212}} on Linking Form and Function, Computationally
- 2016 Sharon Goldwater Language Learning in Humans and Machines: Making Connections to Make Progress
- 2017 {{ill|Alastair F. Donaldson|qid=Q80637478}} on Many-Core Programming: How to Go Really Fast Without Crashing
- 2018 Alexandra Silva{{cite web |author=Anon|year=2018|website=ucl.ac.uk |title=Computer Science News: Alexandra Silva Receives BCS Roger Needham Award 2018 |url=http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/news/article/alexandra_silva_receives_bcs_roger_needham_award_2018/ |accessdate=2018-08-30}}
- 2019 {{ill|Cristian Cadar| qid=Q80640312}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Dr+Cristian+Cadar+announced+as+winner+of+BCS+Roger+Needham+Award+12072019153300?open|title=Dr Cristian Cadar announced as winner of BCS Roger Needham Award | BCS|website=www.wired-gov.net}}
- 2020 Jade Alglave{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcs.org/content-hub/professor-jade-alglave-wins-the-2020-bcs-roger-needham-award/|title=Professor Jade Alglave wins the 2020 BCS Roger Needham Award | BCS}}