Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award

A certificate and $2,000 honorarium are presented for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past 10, and not more than 15 years.

Edward McCluskey worked on electronic switching systems at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1955 to 1959. In 1959, he moved to Princeton University, where he was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the University Computer Center.

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Important Deadlines

1 October (Every year)

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2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award Subcommittee Chair

Prof. Nian-Feng Tzeng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Past Recipients

2025 Hai Li: For contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep-learning acceleration.
2025 Jiebo Luo: For sustained contributions to computer vision and multimedia computing technologies.
2025 Anand Raghunathan: For pioneering contributions to the field of approximate computing and its application to the design of hardware for artificial intelligence.
2024 Yun Raymond Fu: For innovative and impactful contributions to representation learning, computer vision, face, and gesture recognition.
2024 Debendra Das Sharma: For architectural innovations driving open composable systems at package, node, Rack, and Pod levels with PCI-Express, CXL, and UCIe standards.
2024 Song Guo: For pioneering contributions to edge computing and edge intelligence technologies.
2024 Shrikanth Narayanan: For pioneering contributions to speech, language and multimedia processing and affective computing and their human-centered societal applications.
2023 Luca Benini: For contributions to energy-efficient circuits and architectures and related design methods and tools.
2023 Marten van Dijk: For contributions to oblivious and encrypted computation.
2023 Kristen Grauman: For contributions to object recognition, unsupervised domain adaptation and visual search.
2023 Minyi Guo: For contributions to the design and realization of resource-efficient cloud computing.
2022 Yiran Chen: For contributions to new nonvolatile memory technologies and their applications.
2022 Alan Yuille: For contributions to Bayesian, learning and optimization-based approaches to computer vision.
2022 Thomas Zimmermann: For contributions to mining software repositories and defect prediction.
2021 Dacheng Tao: For exceptional contributions to representation learning and its applications.
2021 Vijaykrishnan Narayanan: For contributions to cross-layer power-aware architectures leveraging post-CMOS technology.
2021 Rene Vidal: For pioneering contributions to subspace clustering and generalized principal component analysis with applications in computer vision and pattern recognition.
2020 Ahmed Louri: For pioneering contributions to the solution of on-chip and off-chip communication problems for parallel computing and manycore architectures.
2020 Yuan Xie: For contributions to technology-driven computer architecture and to tools for their implementation and evaluation.
2020 B.S. Manjunath: For contributions to image search, retrieval, and bio-image informatics.
2020 Onur Mutlu: For innovative and impactful contributions to computer memory systems.
2019 Radu Marculescu: For seminal contributions to the science of network on chip design, analysis, and optimization.
2019 Zhi-Hua Zhou: For contributions to machine learning and data mining.
2019 C.-C. Jay Kuo: For outstanding contributions to multimedia computing technologies and their applications.
2018 Margaret Martonosi: For contributions to power-aware computing and energy-constrained mobile sensor networks.
2017 Baba C. Vemuri: For pioneering and sustaining contributions to computer vision and medical image analysis.
2017 Ingrid Verbauwhede: For pioneering contributions to design methodologies for tamper-resistant and secure electronic systems.
2017 Rafail Ostrovsky: For outstanding contributions to cryptographic protocols and systems, enhancing the scope of cryptographic applications and of assured cryptographic security.
2017 Hui Lei: For pioneering contributions to scalable access to real-world data.
2016 Pierangela Samarati: For pioneering and outstanding contributions to data security and privacy.
2016 Yong Rui: For pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval.
2016 Sushil Jajodia: For outstanding contributions in network vulnerability analysis and cyber situation awareness, resulting in seminal papers, patents, and a commercial system.
2016 Patrick J. Flynn: For pioneering the development of techniques for biometric identification using face, eye and ear attributes and for creating a world class multi-biometric Image database for research and real applications.
2016 Jason Cong: For setting the algorithmic foundations for high-level synthesis of field programmable gate arrays.
2015 Josep Torrellas: For pioneering contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation.
2015 Hong Mei: For outstanding contributions to component-based software reuse and standardization.
2015 Joydeep Ghosh: For foundational contributions to multi-learner systems.
2015 Krishnendu Chakrabarty: For pioneering and inspirational research on the design automation and testing of complex chips with application to microfluidic biochips.
2014 Kevin Bowyer: For pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics.
2014 W. Bruce Croft: For outstanding contributions to information retrieval and the development of search engines.
2014 Srinivas Devadas: For pioneering work in secure hardware, including the invention of Physical Unclonable Functions and single-chip secure processor architectures.
2014 Pedro F. Felzenszwalb: For the deformable parts model method of detecting objects in images and video.
2014 Albert Y. Zomaya: For outstanding contributions to the solution of scheduling problems in parallel and distributed computing systems.
2013 Eva Tardos: For contributions to algorithmic game theory, particularly her seminal work on selfish routing.
2013 Kian-Lee Tan: For technical achievements in advanced query processing in database systems.
2013 Philip S. Yu: For pioneering and fundamentally innovative contributions to the scalable indexing, querying, searching, mining and anonymization of big data.
2013 Jan Camenisch: For pioneering theoretical work on privacy-enhancing cryptographic protocols and leadership in their practical realization.
2013 Virgil D. Gligor: For pioneering work and leadership in the area of computer and network security.
2012 Michael Franz: For pioneering contributions to just-in-time compilation and optimization, significantly advancing web application technology.
2012 Ling Liu: For pioneering contributions to novel internet data management and decentralized trust management.
2012 Klara Nahrstedt: For pioneering contributions to end-to-end quality of service and resource management in wired and wireless networks.
2012 Mei-Ling Shyu: For pioneering contributions to multimedia data mining, management and retrieval.
2012 Xindong Wu: For pioneering contributions to data mining and applications.
2011 Johannes Gehrke: For pioneering contribution to Novel Data Mining and Distributed Query Processing Techniques.
2011 Ronald Fagin: For pioneering contributions to novel data mining and distributed query processing techniques.
2011 Liang-Jie Zhang: For pioneering contributions to the theory of rank and score aggregation.
2011 Frederica Darema: For pioneering contributions to novel techniques for complex systems modeling and simulation.
2011 Jose Garcia-Luna-Aceves: For pioneering contributions to the theory and design of communication protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks.
2010 Tyrone Grandison: For pioneering contributions to Secure and Private Data Management.
2010 Ashok N. Srivastava: For pioneering contributions to Intelligent Information Systems.
2010 Hong-Jiang Zhang: For pioneering contributions to Multimedia Content Analysis Systems.
2010 Venu Govindaraju: For pioneering contributions to Biometrics Systems.
2010 Eunice Santos: For pioneering contributions to Computational Social Network Systems.
2009 Elena Ferrari: For pioneering contributions to Secure Data Management.
2009 John S. Bay: For pioneering contributions to Embedded Systems.
2009 Sajal K. Das: For pioneering contributions to Sensor Networks.
2009 Timothy W. Finin: For pioneering contributions to Distributed Intelligence Systems.
2008 Ophir Frieder: For pioneering development of Scalable Information Systems.
2008 Rama Chellapa: For fundamental and pioneering contributions to face and human motion modeling and recognition from still images and video sequences.
2008 Kishor S. Trivedi: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the phenomena of software aging and software rejuvenation.
2006 Roberto Tamassia: For pioneering the field of graph drawing and for outstanding contributions to the design of graph and geometric algorithms.
2006 Michael T. Goodrich: For outstanding contributions to the design of parallel and distributed algorithms for fundamental combinatorial and geometric problems.
2006 Shashi Shekhar: For technical achievements in spatial databases, spatial data mining, and geographic information systems.
2006 Hsinchun Chen: For innovative contributions to digital libraries, medical informatics, and intelligence and security informatics.
2005 Daniel E. Cooke: For language research resulting in Sequence L used by NASA's Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineers.
2005 David A. Forsyth: For contributions to object recognition, tracking, and image-language analysis yielding deeper understanding of computer vision and its relationship to other disciplines.
2005 Amar Mukherjee: For contributions to loss less compression algorithms and compressed domain search-aware pattern matching algorithms for retrieval of text and images.
2005 Vipin Kumar: For contributions to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms, graph partitioning, and data mining.
2005 Nageswara Rao: For contributions to the design and analysis of information fusion methods with rigorous performance guarantees and efficient implementations applied to a number of practical problem.
2005 Eugene H. Spafford: For contributions to information security and digital forensics.
2004 Sumit Ghosh: For fundamental contributions towards a comprehensive engineering measure of network security.
2004 Jiawei Han: For contributions in data mining and knowledge discovery, data warehousing, deductive and object-oriented databases.
2004 Shashi Phoha: For pioneering developments of distributed automation for hierarchical control of interacting machines into dynamic reasoning systems.
2004 Ravi Sandhu: For outstanding and pioneering contributions to information security including innovation of the role-based access control model and usage control.
2003 Wesley Chu: For contributions to Intelligent Information Systems.
2003 Anil Jain: For contributions to pattern recognition theory and application to biometric authentication.
2003 Hermann Kopetz: For outstanding contributions to the field of safety-critical real-time computing.
2003 Carlo H. Sequin: For outstanding contributions to design tools for computer architectures, computer graphics, industrial CAD/CAM and artistic expressionism.
2003 Mukesh Singhal: For pioneering contributions to distributed computing systems.
2002 Elisa Bertino: For outstanding contributions to database systems and database security and advanced data management systems.
2002 Ram Chillarege: For invention of Orthogonal Defect Classification and contributions to advances in software engineering measurements and analysis.
2000 Arif Ghafoor: For significant contributions to the development of multimedia synchronization models and associated algorithms.
2000 Ruud M. Bolle: For technical contributions to, and leadership in, building computer vision systems with high scientific and practical value.
1999 L.M. Patnaik: For pioneering contributions to parallel, distributed and soft computing, and for novel message passing hierarchical architectures, design of high performance generic algorithms, and study of their dynamics.
1999 Bharat Bhargava: For outstanding contributions to foundations of adaptability schemes in distributed systems and communication software.
1999 Wen-Tsuen Chen: For contributions to parallel processing and high-speed networking systems design.
1998 Nikolaos G. Bourbakis: For outstanding and pioneering contributions to space filling curves for image processing and intelligent visual navigation of autonomous robots in unknown space.
1998 Tadao Ichikawa: For contributions to visual/multimedia computing technologies.
1998 S. Sitharama Iyengar: For outstanding contributions to data structures and algorithms for image processing and signal/sensor fusion problems.
1998 Kane Kim: For outstanding contributions to the scientific foundation for both real-time fault-tolerant computing and real-time object-oriented distributed computing.
1998 Benjamin W. Wah: For outstanding and pioneering contributions to search optimization with parallel and neural networks approaches.
1997 Luqi: For contributions to the foundation and technology for computer-aided protyping of hard real-time systems and their functions.
1997 Jeffrey J.P. Tsai: For contributions to knowledge based engineering.
1997 Bhavani Thuraisingham: For contributions to secure distributed database systems.
1996 J.K. Aggarwal: For pioneering contributions toward establishing fundamentals of structure extraction and computational motion from image sequences.
1996 Sunil Ranjan Das: For pioneering contributions to the fields of switching theory and modern digital design, digital circuits testing, microarchitecture and microprogram optimization, and combinatorics and graph theory.
1995 David Patterson: For outstanding contributions to the advancement of computer science and engineering through inspiring teaching, path-breaking research, effective leadership and wide-ranging professional service.
1991 Tse-yun Feng: Significant and outstanding technical contribution to the field of parallel processing.
1988 David R. Boggs: Local area networks
1987 Robert M. Metcalfe: LAN
198 S. Iwasaki
1985 Algirdas A. Avizienis: Fault tolerant computing.
1985 Edward J. McCluskey: Testability