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Upcoming Deadline: 1 October 2023 - 11:59PM EDT (Accepting Nominations for 2024 Awards)Endorsement(s) are optional.
Nomination Questions (pdf) | Presentation: IEEE Computer Society Awards Ceremony
All members of the profession are invited to nominate a colleague who they consider most eligible to be considered for this award. The Award is named for the Women of ENIAC but is open to all professionals, regardless of gender or gender identity.
The recognition is engraved on two silver medals specially struck for the Society.
2023 Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Subcommittee Chair
Éva Tardos, Cornell University
Charter Recipients
On the occasion of the initiation of the Computer Pioneer Award, the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society has named, as charter recipients of this award, the following individuals who meet the Computer Pioneer Award criteria, and who also have received previous computer awards sponsored by the Society.
Howard H. Aiken | CR | “Large-Scale Automatic Computation” |
Samuel N. Alexander | CR | “SEAC” |
Gene M. Amdahl | CR | “Large-Scale Computer Architecture” |
John W. Backus | CR | “FORTRAN” |
Robert S. Barton | CR | “Language-Directed Architecture” |
C. Gordon Bell | CR | “Computer Design” |
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. | CR | “Compatible Computer Family System/360” |
Wesley A. Clark | CR | “First Personal Computer” |
Fernando J. Corbato | CR | “Timesharing” |
Seymour R. Cray | CR | “Scientific Computer Systems” |
Edsgar W. Dijkstra | CR | “Multiprogramming Control” |
J. Presper Eckert | CR | “First All-Electronic Computer – ENIAC” |
Jay W. Forrester | CR | “First Large-Scale Coincident Current Memory” |
Herman H. Goldstine | CR | “Contributions to Early Computer Design” |
Richard W. Hamming | CR | “Error-Correcting Code” |
Jean A. Hoerni | CR | “Planar Semiconductor Manufacturing Process” |
Grace M. Hopper | CR | “Automatic Programming” |
Alston S. Householder | CR | “Numerical Methods” |
David A. Huffman | CR | Sequential Circuit Design” |
Kenneth E. Iverson | CR | “APL” |
Tom Kilburn | CR | “Paging Computer Design” |
Donald E. Knuth | CR | “Science of Computer Algorithms” |
Herman Lukoff | CR | “Early Electronic Computer Circuits” |
John W. Mauchly | CR | “First All-Electronic Computer – ENIAC” |
Gordon E. Moore | CR | “Integrated Circuit Production Technology” |
Allen Newell | CR | “Contributions to Artificial Intelligence” |
Robert N. Noyce | CR | “Integrated Circuit Production Technology” |
Lawrence G. Roberts | CR | “Packet Switching” |
George R. Stibitz | CR | “First Remote Computation” |
Shmuel Winograd | CR | “Efficiency of Computational Algorithms” |
Maurice V. Wilkes | CR | “Microprogramming” |
Konrad Zuse | CR | “First Process Control Computer” |
For pioneering contributions to scheduling and management of packet-switched networks, impacting the theory and practice of communication networks.
For contributions to representation, inference, and learning in probabilistic models with applications to computational biology and human health.
For fundamental contributions to Computer Science, via the development of the theory of algorithms and complexity, and its application to the natural and social sciences.
For seminal contributions to virtual memory, the Internet infrastructure, and computing education.
For transformative innovations in “Trust in Computation;” specifically, coinventing “Malicious Cryptography,” and pioneering contributions to “Distributed Cryptosystems.”
For a leading role in developing computer vision, computer graphics, and medical imaging through pioneering research that has helped unify these fields and has impacted related disciplines within and beyond computer science.
For pioneering innovations in the architecture of federated databases and in the integration of data from multiple, heterogeneous sources.
For a leading role in developing Computer Vision into a thriving discipline through pioneering research, leadership, and mentorship.
For pioneering data abstraction, polymorphism, and support for fault tolerance and distributed computing in the programming languages CLU and Argus.
For the creation of the Google search engine and leadership in creating ambitious products and research initiatives.
For the creation of the Google search engine and leadership in creating ambitious products and research initiatives.
For bringing object-oriented programming and generic programming to the mainstream with his design and implementation of the C++ programming language.
For pioneering work in Object Modeling that led to the creation of the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
For more than 50 years of leadership, which includes the creation of TCCA and SIGARCH, basic contributions to computer arithmetic, microarchitecture and multiprocessing, and quantitative analysis of microarchitectures.
For the pioneering of three areas of computer architecture development of parallel algorithms for recurrence embodied in the Kogge-Stone adder, development of the multi-core microprocessor chip and the formalization of methods for designing the control of a computer pipeline.
For pioneering work as a principal designer of the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.
For pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence, including development of the basic principles and methods of knowledge-based systems and their practical applications.
For improving the quality of mathematical software, making it more accessible and creating MATLAB.
For pioneering parallel architectures including the Illiac IV, the Burroughs BSP, and Cedar; and, for revolutionary parallel compiler technology including Parafrase and KAP Tools.
For pioneering work and lifetime achievement as one of the first developers and researchers in programming languages.
For contributions to superscalar architecture, including multiple-issue dynamic instruction scheduling, and for the innovation and widespread teaching of simplified VLSI design methods.
For pioneering work as one of the first programmers, including co-leading the first teams of ENIAC programmers, and pioneering work on BINAC and UNIVAC I.
For seminal contributions to the design and synthesis of digital systems over five decades, including the first algorithm for logic synthesis (the Quine-McCluskey method).
For establishing Petri net theory in 1962, which not only was cited by hundreds of thousands of scientific publications but also significantly advanced the fields of parallel and distributed computing.
For recognition of contribution to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes.
For pioneering work establishing the theory and practice of compiler optimization.
For pioneering system software portability through the programming language BCPL widely influential and used in academia and industry for a variety of prominent system software.
For pioneering development in operating systems and concurrent programming, exemplified by work on the RC4000 multiprogramming system, monitors, and Concurrent Pascal.
For meeting the world's needs for variant character sets and other symbols, via ASCII, ASCII-alternate sets, and escape sequences.
For the development of Electronics Funds Transfer which made possible computer to computer commercial transactions via the banking system.
For the marrying of computer and communications technology in the GE DATANET 30, putting terminals on peoples desks to communicate with and timeshare a computer, leading directly to the development of the personal computer, computer networking and the internet.
For inventing the pointer variable and introducing this concept into PL/I, thus providing for the first time, the capability to flexibly treat linked lists in a general-purpose high level language.
For pioneering development in Minsk series computers' software, of the information systems' software and applications and for data processing and data base management systems concepts dissemination and promotion.
For pioneering development in Belarus of the Minsk series computers' hardware, of the multicomputer complexes and of the RV family of mobile computers for heavy field conditions.
For pioneering work on the first computer built by the Sperry Corporation, the SPEEDAC, and for subsequent contributions to the areas of computer graphics and image processing.
For significant contributions to the field of computing as a Cryptologist and statistician during World War II at Bletchley Park, as an early worker and developer of the Colossus at Bletchley Park and on the University of Manchester Mark I, the world's first stored program computer.
For pioneering work in the development of banking applications through the implementation of ERMA, and the introduction of computer manufacturing to GE.
For the development of the first sort-merge generator for the Univac which inspired the first ideas about compilation.
For computing laboratory staff member, Aberdeen Proving Ground, who converted the ENIAC to a stored program.
For the development of computer science in former Czechoslovakia with fundamental contributions to the theory of computing and extraordinary organizational activities.
A founder and influential leader of computing in Bulgaria; leader of the team that developed the first Bulgarian computer; made fundamental and continuing contributions to abstract mathematics and software.
For the co-invention of the TCP/IP protocols and for originating the Internet program.
For recognition as the developer of a 1956 logical machine and the design of the MIR computer in Hungary.
For pioneering work in the construction of the first commercial computers in Poland, and for the development of university curriculum in computer science.
For development of the 1930 relay machines, and going on to build early computers in post-war Hungary.
For pioneering work in the construction of the first Polish digital computers and contributions to fundamental research in computer architecture.
For the introduction of computer hardware technology into Slovakia and the development of the first control computer.
For the pioneering work leading to the development of computer research in Czechoslovakis and the design and construction of the SAPO and EPOS computers.
For his work with the Office of Naval Research and computer R&R beginning in 1946.