| Year | Recipient(s) | Photo | Rationale | Affiliated institute(s) |
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| 1966 | Alan Perlis |  | "For his influence in the area of advancedcomputer programming techniques andcompiler construction"[16][17] | Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 1967 | Maurice Wilkes |  | For contributions including being "the builder and designer of theEDSAC, the second computer with an internally storedprogram" and introducingprogram libraries (together withDavid Wheeler andStanley Gill)[18][19] | University of Cambridge |
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| 1968 | Richard Hamming |  | "For his work onnumerical methods, automatic coding systems, anderror-detecting and error-correcting codes"[20][21] | University of Louisville Bell Labs |
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| 1969 | Marvin Minsky |  | "For his central role in creating, shaping, promoting, and advancing the field ofartificial intelligence"[22][23] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 1970 | James H. Wilkinson |  | "For his research innumerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations inlinear algebra and 'backward' error analysis"[24][25] | National Physical Laboratory |
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| 1971 | John McCarthy |  | Award citation refers to McCarthy's lecture "The Present State of Research on Artificial Intelligence"[26][27] | Stanford University |
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| 1972 | Edsger W. Dijkstra |  | "For fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge; for eloquent insistence and practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly, not just debugged into correctness; for illuminating perception of problems at the foundations of program design"[28][29] | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Eindhoven University of Technology University of Texas at Austin |
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| 1973 | Charles Bachman |  | "For his outstanding contributions todatabase technology"[30][31] | General Electric Research Laboratory (now underGroupe Bull, anAtos company) |
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| 1974 | Donald Knuth |  | "For his major contributions to theanalysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to 'The Art of Computer Programming' through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title"[32][33] | California Institute of Technology Center for Communications Research, Center for Communications and Computing, Institute for Defense Analyses Stanford University |
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| 1975 | Allen Newell |  | In collaboration withJ. C. Shaw and others, for "basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of humancognition, andlist processing."[34][35][36] | RAND Corporation Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Herbert A. Simon | 
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| 1976 | Michael O. Rabin |  | "For their joint paper 'Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem',[37] which introduced the idea ofnondeterministic machines"[38][39][40][41] | Princeton University |
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| Dana Scott |  | University of Chicago |
| 1977 | John Backus |  | "For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work onFORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification ofprogramming languages"[42][43] | IBM |
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| 1978 | Robert W. Floyd |  | "For having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, and for helping to found the following important subfields ofcomputer science: the theory ofparsing, thesemantics of programming languages, automaticprogram verification,automatic program synthesis, andanalysis of algorithms"[44][45] | Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University |
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| 1979 | Kenneth E. Iverson |  | "For his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows asAPL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice"[46][47] | IBM |
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| 1980 | Tony Hoare |  | "For his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages"[48][49] | Queen's University Belfast University of Oxford |
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| 1981 | Edgar F. Codd |  | "For his fundamental and continuing contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems"[50][51] | IBM |
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| 1982 | Stephen Cook |  | For "his advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way"; the citation in particular mentions his paper "The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures," which is credited with founding the theory ofNP-completeness[52][53] | University of Toronto |
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| 1983 | Dennis Ritchie |  | "For their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of theUNIX operating system"[54][55] | Bell Labs |
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| Ken Thompson |  |
| 1984 | Niklaus Wirth |  | "For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages,EULER,ALGOL-W,MODULA andPASCAL"[56] | Stanford University University of Zurich ETH Zurich |
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| 1985 | Richard M. Karp |  | "For his continuing contributions to the theory of algorithms including the development of efficient algorithms fornetwork flow and othercombinatorial optimization problems, the identification ofpolynomial-time computability with the intuitive notion of algorithmic efficiency, and, most notably, contributions to the theory ofNP-completeness"[57] | University of California, Berkeley |
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| 1986 | John Hopcroft |  | "For fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures"[58][59] | Cornell University |
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| Robert Tarjan |  | Stanford University Cornell University University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
| 1987 | John Cocke |  | "For significant contributions in the design and theory ofcompilers, the architecture of large systems and the development ofreduced instruction set computers (RISC); for discovering and systematizing many fundamental transformations now used inoptimizing compilers includingreduction of operator strength,elimination of common subexpressions,register allocation,constant propagation, anddead code elimination"[60] | IBM |
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| 1988 | Ivan Sutherland |  | "For his pioneering and visionary contributions tocomputer graphics, starting withSketchpad, and continuing after"[61] | Stanford University Harvard University University of Utah California Institute of Technology |
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| 1989 | William Kahan |  | "For his fundamental contributions tonumerical analysis" and as "one of the foremost experts onfloating-point computations"[62] | University of California, Berkeley |
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| 1990 | Fernando J. Corbató |  | "For his pioneering work organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale,time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems,CTSS andMultics"[63] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 1991 | Robin Milner |  | The award citation mentions three primary contributions: his mechanization of theLogic of Computable Functions; the programming languageML including itstype inference andtype safety; thecalculus of communicating systems; as well as the connection betweenoperational anddenotationalsemantics[64][65] | Stanford University University of Edinburgh |
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| 1992 | Butler Lampson |  | "For contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation:workstations,networks,operating systems, programming systems,displays,security anddocument publishing"[66] | PARC DEC |
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| 1993 | Juris Hartmanis |  | "In recognition of their seminal paper[67] which established the foundations for the field ofcomputational complexity theory"[68][69][70] | General Electric Research Laboratory (now underGroupe Bull, anAtos company) |
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| Richard E. Stearns |  |
| 1994 | Edward Feigenbaum |  | "For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology"[71][72][73] | Stanford University |
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| Raj Reddy |  | Stanford University Carnegie Mellon University |
| 1995 | Manuel Blum |  | "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations ofcomputational complexity theory and its application tocryptography andprogram checking"[74] | University of California, Berkeley |
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| 1996 | Amir Pnueli |  | "For seminal work introducingtemporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systemverification"[75] | Stanford University Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute of Science Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
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| 1997 | Douglas Engelbart |  | "For an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision"[76] | SRI International Tymshare McDonnell Douglas Bootstrap Institute/Alliance,[77] The Doug Engelbart Institute |
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| 1998 | Jim Gray |  | "For seminal contributions todatabase andtransaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation"[78] | IBM Microsoft |
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| 1999 | Fred Brooks |  | "For landmark contributions tocomputer architecture,operating systems, and software engineering"[79] | IBM University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| 2000 | Andrew Yao |  | "In recognition of his fundamental contributions to thetheory of computation, including the complexity-based theory ofpseudorandom number generation,cryptography, andcommunication complexity"[80] | Stanford University University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
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| 2001 | Ole-Johan Dahl |  | "For ideas fundamental to the emergence ofobject-oriented programming, through their design of the programming languagesSimula I and Simula 67"[81][82] | Norwegian Computing Center University of Oslo |
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| Kristen Nygaard |  |
| 2002 | Leonard Adleman |  | "Fortheir ingenious contribution for makingpublic-key cryptography useful in practice"[83][84][85] | University of Southern California |
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| Ron Rivest |  | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Adi Shamir |  |
| 2003 | Alan Kay |  | "For pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporaryobject-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developedSmalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing"[86] | University of Utah PARC Stanford University Atari AppleATG Walt Disney Imagineering Viewpoints Research Institute HPLabs |
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| 2004 | Vint Cerf |  | "For pioneering work oninternetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet's basic communications protocols,TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking"[87][88] | University of California, Los Angeles Stanford University,DARPA MCI (now underVerizon) CNRI, Google |
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| Bob Kahn |  | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bolt Beranek and Newman DARPA CNRI |
| 2005 | Peter Naur |  | "For fundamental contributions toprogramming language design and the definition ofALGOL 60, tocompiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming"[89] | Regnecentralen (now underFujitsu) University of Copenhagen |
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| 2006 | Frances Allen |  | "For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers andautomatic parallel execution"[90] | IBM |
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| 2007 | Edmund M. Clarke |  | "For their role in developingModel-Checking into a highly effective verification technology that is widely adopted in the hardware and software industries"[91][92][93][94] | Harvard University Carnegie Mellon University |
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| E. Allen Emerson |  | Harvard University University of Texas at Austin |
| Joseph Sifakis |  | French National Centre for Scientific Research |
| 2008 | Barbara Liskov |  | "For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related todata abstraction,fault tolerance, anddistributed computing"[14] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 2009 | Charles P. Thacker |  | "For the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer — theAlto at Xerox PARC — and seminal inventions and contributions tolocal area networks (including theEthernet), multiprocessor workstations, snoopingcache coherence protocols, andtablet personal computers"[95] | PARC DEC MicrosoftResearch |
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| 2010 | Leslie Valiant |  | "For transformative contributions to thetheory of computation, including the theory ofprobably approximately correct (PAC) learning, the complexity of enumeration and ofalgebraic computation, and the theory of parallel and distributed computing"[96] | Harvard University |
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| 2011 | Judea Pearl |  | "For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning"[97][98] | University of California, Los Angeles New Jersey Institute of Technology |
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| 2012 | Shafi Goldwasser |  | "For transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory"[15][99][100] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weizmann Institute of Science |
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| Silvio Micali |  | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2013 | Leslie Lamport |  | "For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality andlogical clocks,safety and liveness,replicated state machines, andsequential consistency"[101][102][103] | Massachusetts Computer Associates (now under Essig PLM) SRI International DEC Compaq (now underHP) MicrosoftResearch |
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| 2014 | Michael Stonebraker |  | "For fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems"[104][105] | University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 2015 | Whitfield Diffie |  | "For inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method[106][107][108] | Stanford University |
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| Martin Hellman |  |
| 2016 | Tim Berners-Lee |  | "For inventing theWorld Wide Web, the firstweb browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale"[109] | CERN Massachusetts Institute of Technology World Wide Web Consortium |
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| 2017 | John L. Hennessy |  | "For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on themicroprocessor industry"[110][111][112] | Stanford University |
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| David Patterson |  | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2018 | Yoshua Bengio |  | "For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have madedeep neural networks a critical component of computing"[113][114][115][116] | Université de Montréal,McGill University, Mila |
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| Geoffrey Hinton |  | University of Toronto University of California, San Diego Carnegie Mellon University University College London University of Edinburgh Google AI |
| Yann LeCun |  | University of Toronto Bell Labs Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University Meta AI |
| 2019 | Edwin Catmull |  | "For fundamental contributions to3D computer graphics, and the impact ofcomputer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications"[117][118][119] | University of Utah Pixar Walt Disney Animation Studios |
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| Pat Hanrahan |  | Pixar Princeton University Stanford University |
| 2020 | Alfred Aho |  | "For fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists"[120][121][122] | Bell Labs Columbia University |
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| Jeffrey Ullman |  | Bell Labs Princeton University Stanford University |
| 2021 | Jack Dongarra |  | "For pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades"[123][124] | Argonne National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory University of Manchester Texas A&M UniversityInstitute for Advanced Study University of Tennessee Rice University |
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| 2022 | Robert Metcalfe |  | "For the invention, standardization, and commercialization ofEthernet"[125] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Harvard University,Xerox PARC,University of Texas at Austin |
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| 2023 | Avi Wigderson |  | "For foundational contributions to the theory of computation, including reshaping our understanding of the role of randomness in computation and mathematics, and for his decades of intellectual leadership in theoretical computer science"[126][127] | Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton University,Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| 2024 | Andrew Barto |  | "For developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations ofreinforcement learning"[3][128][129] | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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| Richard S. Sutton |  | University of Alberta Amii |