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The original Grace Murray Hopper Awards (named for computer pioneer RADM
Rear Admiral

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 Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper

Rear admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language....
) have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership was approximately 83,000 as of 2007....
 (ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a young (age 35 or less) computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution.







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The original Grace Murray Hopper Awards (named for computer pioneer RADM
Rear Admiral

Rear Admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a Commodore and Captain , and below that of a Vice Admiral. It is the lowest form of Admiral....
 Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper

Rear admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language....
) have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership was approximately 83,000 as of 2007....
 (ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a young (age 35 or less) computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution.

Recipients

  • 1971 Donald E. Knuth
  • 1972 Paul H. Dirksen
  • 1972 Paul H. Cress
    Paul H. Cress

    Paul H. Cress was a Canada computer scientist. He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran compiler called WATFIV programming language , for the IBM System/360 family of computers....
  • 1973 Lawrence M. Breed
    Lawrence M. Breed

    Lawrence M. Breed was the 1973 recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery....
  • 1973 Richard H. Lathwell
    Richard H. Lathwell

    Richard H. Lathwell was the 1973 recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery....
  • 1973 Roger Moore
    Roger Moore (computer scientist)

    Roger D. Moore was the 1973 recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.Moore was a founder of I....
  • 1974 George N. Baird
  • 1975 Allen L. Scherr
  • 1976 Edward H. Shortliffe
    Edward H. Shortliffe

    Edward Hance Shortliffe, MD, PhD is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician and computer scientist. Dr. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine....
  • 1977 no award
  • 1978 Raymond Kurzweil
    Raymond Kurzweil

    Raymond Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist. He has been a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition , speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments....
  • 1979 Stephen Wozniak
  • 1980 Robert M. Metcalfe
  • 1981 Daniel S. Bricklin
  • 1982 Brian K. Reid
  • 1983 no award
  • 1984 Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.
    Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.

    Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. is a pioneer of Object-oriented programming computer Computer programming and the principal Systems architect, designer and implementor of five generations of Smalltalk environments....
  • 1985 Cordell Green
  • 1986 William N. Joy
  • 1987 John Ousterhout
    John Ousterhout

    John Kenneth Ousterhout is the chairman of Electric Cloud and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming....
  • 1988 Guy L. Steele
  • 1989 W. Daniel Hillis
    W. Daniel Hillis

    William Daniel "Danny" Hillis is an United States inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel computing supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT....
  • 1990 Richard Stallman
    Richard Stallman

    Richard Matthew Stallman , often abbreviated "rms","'Richard Stallman' is just my mundane name; you can call me 'rms'"|last= Stallman...
     
  • 1991 Feng-hsiung Hsu
    Feng-hsiung Hsu

    Feng-hsiung Hsu is a computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion....
  • 1992 no award
  • 1993 Bjarne Stroustrup
    Bjarne Stroustrup

    Bjarne Stroustrup is a computer scientist at the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is most notable for developing the C++ programming language....
  • 1994-1995 no award
  • 1996 Shafrira Goldwasser
  • 1997-1998 no award
  • 1999 Wen-mei Hwu
    Wen-mei Hwu

    Wen-mei Hwu is a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, Microarchitecture, and parallel processing....
  • 2000 Lydia Kavraki
  • 2001 George Necula
  • 2002 Ramakrishnan Srikant
  • 2003 Stephen W. Keckler
  • 2004 Jennifer Rexford
  • 2005 Omer Reingold
    Omer Reingold

    Omer Reingold is a faculty member of the Foundations of Computer Science Group at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He received the 2005 Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in finding a deterministic L algorithm for ST-connectivity in undirected graphs....
     
  • 2006 Daniel Klein
  • 2007 Vern Paxson
    Vern Paxson

    Vern Edward Paxson is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also works as an Internet researcher based at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California....


External links

  • The ACM homepage for the