Year | Name(s) | Notes | Publication year |
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1993 | László Babai,Shafi Goldwasser,Silvio Micali,Shlomo Moran, andCharles Rackoff | for the development ofinteractive proof systems | 1988,[paper 1] 1989[paper 2] |
1994 | Johan Håstad | for an exponentiallower bound onthe size of constant-depthBoolean circuits (for theparity function). | 1989[paper 3] |
1995 | Neil Immerman andRóbert Szelepcsényi | for theImmerman–Szelepcsényi theorem regarding nondeterministic space complexity | 1988,[paper 4] 1988[paper 5] |
1996 | Mark Jerrum andAlistair Sinclair | for work onMarkov chains and the approximation of thepermanent of a matrix | 1989,[paper 6] 1989[paper 7] |
1997 | Joseph Halpern andYoram Moses | for defining a formal notion of "knowledge" in distributed environments | 1990[paper 8] |
1998 | Seinosuke Toda | forToda's theorem, which showed a connection between counting solutions (PP) and alternation of quantifiers (PH) | 1991[paper 9] |
1999 | Peter Shor | forShor's algorithm forfactoring numbers inpolynomial time on aquantum computer | 1997[paper 10] |
2000 | Moshe Y. Vardi andPierre Wolper | for work ontemporal logic withfinite automata | 1994[paper 11] |
2001 | Sanjeev Arora,Uriel Feige,Shafi Goldwasser,Carsten Lund,László Lovász,Rajeev Motwani,Shmuel Safra,Madhu Sudan, andMario Szegedy | for thePCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation | 1996,[paper 12] 1998,[paper 13] 1998[paper 14] |
2002 | Géraud Sénizergues | for proving that equivalence ofdeterministic pushdown automata isdecidable | 2001[paper 15] |
2003 | Yoav Freund andRobert Schapire | for theAdaBoost algorithm inmachine learning | 1997[paper 16] |
2004 | Maurice Herlihy,Michael Saks,Nir Shavit andFotios Zaharoglou | for applications oftopology to the theory ofdistributed computing | 1999,[paper 17] 2000[paper 18] |
2005 | Noga Alon,Yossi Matias andMario Szegedy | for their foundational contribution tostreaming algorithms | 1999[paper 19] |
2006 | Manindra Agrawal,Neeraj Kayal,Nitin Saxena | for theAKS primality test | 2004[paper 20] |
2007 | Alexander Razborov,Steven Rudich | fornatural proofs | 1997[paper 21] |
2008 | Daniel Spielman,Shang-Hua Teng | forsmoothed analysis of algorithms | 2004[paper 22] |
2009 | Omer Reingold,Salil Vadhan,Avi Wigderson | forzig-zag product ofgraphs andundirected connectivity inlog space | 2002,[paper 23] 2008[paper 24] |
2010 | Sanjeev Arora,Joseph S. B. Mitchell | for their concurrent discovery of apolynomial-time approximation scheme for the EuclideanTravelling Salesman Problem | 1998,[paper 25] 1999[paper 26] |
2011 | Johan Håstad | for proving optimal inapproximability results for various combinatorial problems | 2001[paper 27] |
2012 | Elias Koutsoupias,Christos Papadimitriou,Noam Nisan,Amir Ronen,Tim Roughgarden andÉva Tardos | for laying the foundations ofalgorithmic game theory[3] | 2009,[paper 28] 2002,[paper 29] 2001[paper 30] |
2013 | Dan Boneh,Matthew K. Franklin, andAntoine Joux | for multi-partyDiffie–Hellman key exchange and theBoneh–Franklin scheme in cryptography[4] | 2003,[paper 31] 2004[paper 32] |
2014 | Ronald Fagin,Amnon Lotem [fr], andMoni Naor | for Optimal Aggregation Algorithms formiddleware[5] | 2003,[paper 33] |
2015 | Daniel Spielman,Shang-Hua Teng | for their series of papers on nearly-linear-time Laplacian solvers[6] | 2011[paper 34]2013[paper 35]2014[paper 36] |
2016 | Stephen Brookes andPeter W. O'Hearn | for their invention ofConcurrent Separation Logic | 2007,[paper 37] 2007[paper 38] |
2017[2] | Cynthia Dwork,Frank McSherry,Kobbi Nissim, andAdam D. Smith | for the invention ofdifferential privacy | 2006[paper 39] |
2018[7] | Oded Regev | for introducing thelearning with errors problem | 2009[paper 40] |
2019[8] | Irit Dinur | for her new proof of thePCP theorem by gap amplification | 2007[paper 41] |
2020[9] | Robin Moser andGábor Tardos | for theirconstructive proof of theLovász local lemma | 2010[paper 42] |
2021[10] | Andrei Bulatov,Jin-Yi Cai,Xi Chen,Martin Dyer, and David Richerby | for their work on the classification of thecounting complexity ofconstraint satisfaction problems | 2013[paper 43] 2013[paper 44] 2017[paper 45] |
2022[11] | Zvika Brakerski,Craig Gentry, andVinod Vaikuntanathan | for their transformative contributions to cryptography by constructing efficient fullyhomomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes | 2014,[paper 46] 2014[paper 47] |
2023[12] | Samuel Fiorini,Serge Massar, andSebastian Pokutta,Hans Raj Tiwary,Ronald de Wolf, andThomas Rothvoss | for showing that any extended formulation for theTSP polytope has exponential size | 2015,[paper 48] 2017[paper 49] |
2024[13] | Ryan Williams | for his work oncircuit lower bounds and the “algorithms to lower bounds” paradigm | 2011[paper 50] |