Dahl-Nygaard Prize
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The Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes in the area of Software Engineering though it is a relatively new prize.
The winners of both awards are announced at the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP). The prizes are named after Ole-Johan Dahl
and Kristen Nygaard
, two pioneers in the area of programming and simulation. The prize was created by Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) in 2004.
The recipients of the prize are:
The winners of both awards are announced at the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP). The prizes are named after Ole-Johan Dahl
Ole-Johan Dahl
Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard.- Career :...
and Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002.-Object-oriented programming:...
, two pioneers in the area of programming and simulation. The prize was created by Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) in 2004.
The recipients of the prize are:
- 2011, Lancaster: Craig Chambers (senior prize) and Atsushi Igarashi (junior prize)
- 2010, Maribor: Doug LeaDoug LeaDoug Lea is a professor of computer science at State University of New York at Oswego where he specializes in concurrent programming and the design of concurrent data structures. He was on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process and chaired JSR 166, which added concurrency utilities...
(senior prize) and Erik Ernst (junior prize) - 2009, Genoa: David UngarDavid UngarDavid Ungar, an American computer scientist, co-created the Self programming language with Randall Smith. The SELF development environment's animated user experience was described in the influential paper co-written with Bay-Wei Chang, which won a lasting impact award at the ACM Symposium on User...
(senior prize) - 2008, Paphos: Akinori YonezawaAkinori Yonezawais a Japanese computer scientist specializing in object-oriented programming, distributed computing and information security. Being a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Yonezawa has a Ph.D in computer science from MIT in the Actor group at the MIT AI Lab. He currently teaches at the University of...
(senior prize) and Wolfgang De Meuter (junior prize) - 2007, Berlin: Luca CardelliLuca CardelliLuca Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is currently an Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is well-known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. Among other contributions he implemented the first compiler for the functional programming...
(senior prize) and Jonathan Aldrich (junior prize) - 2006, Nantes: Erich GammaErich GammaErich Gamma is Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the influential Software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. He co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework with Kent Beck and led the design of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools...
, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and (posthumously) John VlissidesJohn VlissidesJohn Matthew Vlissides was a software scientist known mainly as one of the four authors of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software... - 2005, Glasgow: Bertrand MeyerBertrand MeyerBertrand Meyer is an academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language.-Education and academic career:...
(senior prize) and Gail Murphy (junior prize)