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Awards

2008

 

Rick Rashid

Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Elected, by a broad-based membership of scholars and practitioners, for pre-eminent contributions to the field of computer science and to society at large.

Cynthia Dwork

Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Elected, by a broad-based membership of scholars and practitioners, for pre-eminent contributions to the field of computer science and to society at large.

Michael Schroeder

National Information Systems Security Award, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency. Presented for scientific or technological breakthroughs, outstanding leadership, highly distinguished authorship, or significant long-term contributions in the computer security field.

Oded Schramm

Foreign Member, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Royal Academy announcement stated: “His most important work is probably the introduction and profound study of Stochastic Loewner Evolution, which in a totally new way connects probability theory and complex analysis. This work is one of the biggest advances in probability theory in many years.”

Leslie Lamport

John von Neumann Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Presented for establishment of the foundations of distributed and concurrent computing.

Bill Buxton

CHI Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. Presented for outstanding contributions to the study of human-computer interaction, recognizing the very best work in shaping the field and awarded for a lifetime of innovation and leadership.

Andrew Blake

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Recognized for contributions to the foundations of segmentation and tracking, and innovation in vision applications.

Cynthia Dwork

Member, National Academy of Engineering. For fundamental contributions to distributed algorithms and the security of cryptosystems.

Victor Bahl

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Recognized for contributions to the design of wireless networks and systems, and leadership in mobile computing and communications.

2007

 

Andrew Blake

The Mountbatten Medal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology. For an outstanding individual contribution to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application.

Christopher Bishop

Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Elected by standing fellows of a multidisciplinary membership encompassing excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, professions, industry, and commerce.

Martín Abadi

SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control. Presented for outstanding and innovative technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems.

Victor Bahl

Distinguished Lecturer, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society. To benefit existing members and chapters, in response to a request from at least one chapter chair.

Victor Bahl

Distinguished Speaker, Association for Computing Machinery. Invited to give presentations on various computing and information-technology topics to local communities of practitioners, researchers, and students.

Michael Cohen

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery. Cited for contributions to computer graphics and computer vision.

Oded Schramm

Ostrowski Prize. Presented for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and the foundations of numerical mathematics.

John Douceur

Distinguished Engineer, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Recognizes ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and five years of continuous professional membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field.

Chuck Thacker

Fellow, Computer History Museum. Presented for leading development of the Xerox PARC Alto and for innovations in networked personal-computer systems and laser-printing technologies.

Luca Cardelli

2007 Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize. Presented annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions.

Cynthia Dwork

Co-winner, 2007 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. Presented each year to an outstanding paper on the principles of distributed computing, the significance and impact of which on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade. Recognized for Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony, which was written by Dwork, Nancy Lynch, and Larry Stockmeyer and which appeared in the Journal of the ACM in April 1988.

Andrew Herbert

Fellow, The Royal Academy of Engineering. Recognized for engineering leadership, as director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, and for important contributions to the development of Internet and wireless technology.

Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Recognized for contributions to speech-recognition research and product development.

2006

 

Albert Greenberg

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery. Recognized for contributions to computing and information technology that are having lasting effects on the lives of people throughout the world, in particular his contributions to Internet measurement and engineering.

Harry Shum

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery. Recognized for contributions to computing and information technology that are having lasting effects on the lives of people throughout the world, in particular his contributions to computer vision and computer graphics.

Susan Dumais

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery. Recognized for contributions to computing and information technology that are having lasting effects on the lives of people throughout the world, in particular her research contributions to information retrieval and human-computer interaction.

Tony Hoare

Fellow, Computer History Museum. Presented for his development of the Quicksort algorithm and for lifelong contributions to the theory of programming languages.

Butler Lampson

Fellow, Computer History Museum. Presented for his fundamental contributions to computer science, including networked personal workstations, operating systems, computer security, and document publishing.

Chuck Thacker

2007 John von Neumann Medal. Presented for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology.

Jim Larus

Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery. Recognized for contributions to computing and information technology that are having lasting effects on the lives of people throughout the world, in particular his contributions to programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture.

Mike Schroeder

Outstanding Innovation Award, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for Security, Audit and Control, for outstanding and innovative technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems.

Feng Zhao

Distinguished Engineer, Association for Computing Machinery

Andrew Blake

Silver Medal, Royal Academy of Engineering, for "outstanding contribution to British engineering and commercial development"

Oded Schramm

George Pólya Prize, from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Jim Kajiya

Utah Technology Council Hall of Fame inductee

George Robertson

CHI Academy inductee

John Platt

Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Surajit Chaudhuri

Fellow of the Association for Computer Machinery

Harry Shum

IEEE Fellow

Tony Hoare

Foreign Associate, National Academy of Engineering

Jennifer Chayes

Fellow, mathematics, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2005

 

Butler W. Lampson

Member of National Academy of Sciences

Andrew Blake

Fellow, Royal Society

Luca Cardelli

Fellow, Royal Society

Susan Dumais

CHI Academy inductee

Trishul Chilimbi

Participant, 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program, National Academy of Engineering

Jie Liu

Participant, 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program, National Academy of Engineering

Eric Horvitz

President-Elect, American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Manuel Costa

ComputerWorld Horizon Award

Milan Vojnovic

ERCIM Cor Baayen Award (best young European computer-science researcher)

Shuvendu Lahiri

ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation

2004

 

Li Deng

IEEE Fellow

Rick Szeliski

IEEE Fellow

Zhengyou Zhang

IEEE Fellow

Luca Cardelli

Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery

Paul Larson

Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery

Simon Peyton-Jones

Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery

Mike Schroeder

Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery

Lyndsay Williams

Runner-up prize in Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for SenseCam Project

Ken Wood

Runner-up prize in Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for SenseCam Project

Chris Bishop

Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering

Xuedong Huang

Top 10 Leader in the Speech Industry

Li Deng

Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America

Jonathan Grudin

CHI Academy (CHI Fellow)

Hugues Hoppe

Computer Graphics Achievement Award from ACM SIGGRAPH

Butler Lampson

Draper Prize

Gary Starkweather

National Academy of Engineering

Chuck Thacker

Draper Prize

2003

 

Alex Acero

IEEE Fellow

Victor Bahl

ACM Fellow

Phil Bernstein

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Philip Chou

IEEE Fellow

Laci Lovasz

John von Neumann Medal

David Lomet

IEEE Fellow

Rick Rashid

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Oded Schramm

Loeve Prize

Oded Schramm

Henri Poincare Prize

Gary Starkweather

Fellow, Society for Information Display

Paul Viola

Marr Prize

Turner Whitted

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Xuedong Huang

Top 10 Leader in the Speech Industry

2002

 

Ciprian Chelba

Computer, Speech and Language Paper Award

Richard Draves

Participant in the Defense Science Study Group

Eric Horvitz

AAAI Fellow

Jim Kajiya

National Academy of Engineering Member

David Lomet

ACM Fellow

Henrique Malvar

Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Roger Needham

Clifford Paterson Lecture at the Royal Society

George Robertson

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

David Salesin

ACM Fellow

Oded Schramm

Clay Research Award

Gary Starkweather

Inducted into the Industry Hall of Fame

Curtis Wong

NextMedia’s work won an academy award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in the Online Learning category

Ya-Qin Zhang

Distinguished Alumni Award, George Washington University

2001

 

Darko Kirovski

ACM Outstanding PACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation

Victor Bahl

ACM SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award

Tom Barclay

USGS John Wesley Powell Award

Gordon Bell

Eta Kappa Nu Eminent Members Award

Phil Bernstein

Computing Research Association Member, Board of Directors

Phil Bernstein

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

Andrew Blake

Marr Prize, International Conference on Computer Vision

Jim Gray

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow

Jim Gray

USGS John Wesley Powell Award

David Heckerman

AAAI Fellow

Tony Hoare

Honorary Doctorate of Oxford Brookes University

Kamal Jain

Optimization Award of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) for his paper “A Factor 2 Approximation Algorithm for the Generalized Steiner Network Problem”

David Lomet

IEEE Meritorious Service Award for innovative service as Editor of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, including performing its transformation to highly usable electronic form

Laci Lovasz

Gödel Prize for paper “Interactive Proofs and the Hardness of Approximating Cliques”

Laci Lovasz

Corvin Chain Award

Roger Needham

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Oded Schramm

Salem Prize in Mathematics

Kentaro Toyama

Marr Prize, International Conference on Computer Vision

Ya-Qin Zhang

Best Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Wenwu Zhu

Best Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

2000

 

Xuedong Huang

IEEE fellow

Jim Blinn

National Academy of Engineering Member

Geoff Davis

IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award

Yuri Gurevich

Gurevich Symposium (a part of CSL 2000)

Tony Hoare

Kyoto Prize

Tony Hoare

Knight Bachelor

Stephen Robertson

ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award

David Wilson

Rollo Davidson Prize

David Wilson

2000 INFORMS Award for an Outstanding Publication in the Field of Simulation

Ya-Qin Zhang

IEEE Jubilee Golden Medal Award

Hongjiang Zhang

ACM Service Award

1999

 

Jim Blinn

Coons Award — Lifetime Achievement Award for Computer Graphics

Jim Gray

ACM A.M. Turing Award

Laci Lovasz

Wolf Prize

Laci Lovasz

Knuth Prize

1998

 

Jennifer Chayes

American Mathematical Society Vice President

Michael Cohen

SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award

Jim Gray

Charles Babbage Award, IEEE Computer Society

Jim Gray

Presidential Advisory Committee on High Performance Next Generation Internet and Info

Yuri Gurevich

Dr Honoris Causa, University of Limburg, Belgium

David Lomet

ACM SIGMOD Conference Best Paper Award

Roger Needham

Faraday Medal Institution of Electrical Engineers

Roger Needham

U.K. Defense Scientific Advisory Council Register of Independent Members

Stephen Robertson

The Tony Kent Strix Award

Ya-Qin Zhang

Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year, USA

Multiyear Awards

   

Yuri Gurevich

1962 & 1966

Young Mathematician Award of the Ural Math Society (USSR)

Michael H. Freedman

1980-1983

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

Michael H. Freedman

1984-1989

MacArthur Foundation Fellow

Richard Draves

1989-1992

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow

Yuri Gurevich

1990-1991

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan

Jim Blinn

1991-1996

MacArthur Fellow

Yuri Gurevich

1993-1994

Teaching Excellence Award, University of Michigan EECS Department

Christian Borgs

1993-1995

Heisenberg Fellowship

Victor Bahl

1994-1996

Digital Equipment Corp. Doctoral Engineering Fellowship Award

Yuri Gurevich

1995-1996

Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan

Yuri Gurevich

1997-1998

Research Excellence Award, University of Michigan College of Engineering

Darko Kirovski

2000-2001

ACM Oustanding PACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation

Richard Draves

2002-2003

Participant in the Defense Science Study Group

 

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