The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded annually by the
Association for Computing Machinery
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to the authors of the best
doctoral dissertations in
computer science
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and
computer engineering
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. The award is accompanied by a prize of US $20,000 and winning dissertations are published in the
ACM Digital Library
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. Honorable mentions are awarded $10,000. Financial support is provided by
Google
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. The number of awarded dissertations may vary year-to-year.
ACM also awards the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award. Several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) award a Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Recipients
See also
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List of computer science awards
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List of engineering awards
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References
External links
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Winnerson acm.org
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Theoretical computer science
Computer science awards