Past recipients for Harlan D. Mills Award
| 2012 | Lionel Claude Briand | For practical and fundamental contributions to Model-based Software Testing and Verification. |
| 2011 | John Rushby | For practical and fundamental contributions to Software & Hardware Reliability with seminal contributions to computer security, fault tolerance, and formal methods. |
| 2009 | Bertrand Meyer | For practical and fundamental contributions to object-oriented software engineering, software reuse, and the integration of formal methods into the above. |
| 2007 | Bev Littlewood | For leading research on the application of rigorous probabilistic and statistical techniques to problems of assessment in software engineering, particularly in systems dependability. |
| 2006 | John C. Knight | For encouraging software researchers to focus on practical results as well as theory, and for critically analyzing their assumptions and evaluating their research claims. |
| 2004 | Elaine Weyuker | For leading research on rigorous software testing including industrial evaluations of the comparative effectiveness and costs of such testing methods. |
| 2003 | Victor R. Basili | For significant contributions to programming languages, program reading and writing, and empirical methods. |
| 2002 | Jesse H. Poore | For significant contributions to function-based software development and statistical software testing. |
| 2001 | Meir (Manny) Lehman | For pioneering contributions to the empirical study of software processes and program evolution. |
| 2000 | Barry Boehm | For development of empirical software engineering models of cost, schedule, and quality. |
| 1999 | David Parnas | For fundamental contributions to large-scale systems development by establishing software engineering as an engineering discipline. |