Iverson Award
Encyclopedia
The Iverson Award, more formally the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL, is presented by the Special Interest Group on APL (SIGAPL) of the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM). It is presented to a person who has made significant contributions to the APL programming language
or to the APL community. These contributions may be Technical (i.e. new developments in the APL language itself) or Service (assistance or support to SIGAPL or the APL community generally). The award consists of a plaque and a certificate, and is accompanied by a cash prize and a lifetime membership in SIGAPL.
The award is named in honor of Kenneth E. Iverson
, the creator of APL.
Recipients of the award by year:
Information on the award may be found on the Iverson Award page.
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(ACM). It is presented to a person who has made significant contributions to the APL programming language
APL programming language
APL is an interactive array-oriented language and integrated development environment, which is available from a number of commercial and noncommercial vendors and for most computer platforms. It is based on a mathematical notation developed by Kenneth E...
or to the APL community. These contributions may be Technical (i.e. new developments in the APL language itself) or Service (assistance or support to SIGAPL or the APL community generally). The award consists of a plaque and a certificate, and is accompanied by a cash prize and a lifetime membership in SIGAPL.
The award is named in honor of Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth Eugene Iverson was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory...
, the creator of APL.
Recipients of the award by year:
- 2007 IBM APL2 Products and Services Team
- 2001 Jon McGrew
- 2000 Lynne Shaw
- 1999 William Rutiser
- 1998 Roy Sykes, Jr.
- 1997 John C. McPherson
- 1996 Roger HuiRoger HuiRoger Hui is a computer scientist and co-developer of the J Programming Language.He was born in Hong Kong and he immigrated to Canada with his entire family in 1966.-Education and career:In 1973, Hui entered the University of Alberta...
- 1995 Peter Donnelly and John Scholes
- 1994 Donald B. McIntyre (geologist)
- 1993 James A. Brown
- 1991 Phil Abrams
- 1990 Ray Polivka
- 1989 Philip Van Cleave
- 1988 Al Rose (Allen J. Rose)
- 1987 Eugene McDonnellEugene McDonnellEugene Edward McDonnell was a Computer Science pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming languages APL and J....
- 1986 Raymond Tisserand, Clark Wiedmann, and Alex Morrow
- 1985 Dan Dyer and Ian Sharp
- 1984 Garth Foster
- 1983 Adin FalkoffAdin FalkoffAdin D. Falkoff Born in New Jersey, a researcher and manager at IBM Research since the 1950s for over forty years before retiring. He collaborated with Ken Iverson from 1960 to 1980 on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language and its interactive environment...
Information on the award may be found on the Iverson Award page.