The Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer RADM

Grace Hopper Grace Brewster Hopper (; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy Rear admiral (United States), rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I, Harvard Mar ...

) has been awarded by the

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(ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution at or before age 35. __TOC__

Recipients

* 1971

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer sc ...

* 1972 Paul H. Dirksen * 1972 Paul H. Cress * 1973

Lawrence M. Breed Lawrence Moser "Larry" Breed (July 17, 1940 - May 16, 2021) was a computer scientist, artist and inventor, best known for his involvement in the programming language APL. Career As an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961, he creat ...

* 1973

Richard H. Lathwell Richard (Dick) Henry Lathwell was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international lea ...

* 1973

Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 192723 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 19 ...

* 1974 George N. Baird * 1975 Allan L. Scherr * 1976

Edward H. Shortliffe Edward ("Ted") Hance Shortliffe (born 1947) is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. He was the principal developer of the ...

* 1977 ''no award'' * 1978

Ray Kurzweil Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and e ...

* 1979

Steve Wozniak Stephen Gary Wozniak (; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, inventor, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, with business partner Steve Jobs, he c ...

* 1980 Robert M. Metcalfe * 1981 Daniel S. Bricklin * 1982 Brian K. Reid * 1983 ''no award'' * 1984

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr. (born 1944) is a pioneer of Object-oriented programming, object-oriented computer programming and the principal Systems architect, architect, designer and implementer of five generations of Smalltalk environments. ...

* 1985 Cordell Green * 1986 William Nelson "Bill" Joy * 1987

John Ousterhout John Kenneth Ousterhout (, born October 15, 1954) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkele ...

* 1988

Guy L. Steele Jr. Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (; born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards. Biography Steele was born in Missouri ...

* 1989

W. Daniel Hillis William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American Invention, inventor, Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered Parallel computing, parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. He ...

* 1990

Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to ...

* 1991

Feng-hsiung Hsu Feng-hsiung Hsu (born January 1, 1959) () (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and the author of the book ''Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion''. His work led to the creati ...

* 1992 ''no award'' * 1993 Bjarne Stroustrup * 1994–1995 ''no award'' * 1996

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* 1997-1998 ''no award'' * 1999 Wen-mei Hwu * 2000

Lydia Kavraki Lydia E. Kavraki ( el, Λύδια Καβράκη) is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering at Rice Univer ...

* 2001

George Necula George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist, engineer at Google, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on ...

* 2002

Ramakrishnan Srikant Ramakrishnan Srikant is a Google Fellow at Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerc ...

* 2003 Stephen W. Keckler * 2004

Jennifer Rexford Jennifer Rexford is an American computer scientist who is currently the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Her research focuses on analy ...

* 2005

Omer Reingold Omer Reingold ( he, עומר ריינגולד) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is the Rajeev Motwani professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and the director of thSimons Collaboration on the Th ...

* 2006

Dan Klein Daniel Klein (born 1976) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He was educated at Mt. Leba ...

* 2007

Vern Paxson Vern Edward Paxson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also leads the Networking and Security Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His interests range from tr ...

* 2008

Dawson Engler Dawson R. Engler is an American computer scientist and an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. Career After graduating from University of Arizona, Engler earned his Ph.D. from the Massachuse ...

* 2009

Tim Roughgarden Timothy Avelin Roughgarden is an American computer scientist and a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Roughgarden's work deals primarily with game theoretic questions in computer science. Roughgarden received his Ph.D. from C ...

* 2010 Craig Gentry * 2011

Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn (; born 19 August 1978) is a German-Guatemalan entrepreneur and a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcin ...

* 2012

Martin Casado Martín Casado is a Spanish-born American software engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and a co-founder of Nicira Networks. Early life and educatio ...

and

Dina Katabi Dina Katabi ( ar, دينا قَتابي) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center. Academic biography Katabi received a bachelor's degree from the ...

* 2013 Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb * 2014

Sylvia Ratnasamy Sylvia Ratnasamy (born 1976) is a Belgian-Indian computer scientist. She is best known as one of the inventors of the distributed hash table (DHT). Her doctoral dissertation proposed the content-addressable networks, one of the original DHTs, a ...

* 2015 Brent Waters * 2016

Jeffrey Heer Jeffrey Michael Heer (born June 15, 1979) is an American computer scientist best known for his work on information visualization and interactive data analysis. He is a professor of computer science & engineering at the University of Washington, ...

* 2017

Amanda Randles Amanda Randles is an American computer scientist who is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University. Randles is an associate professor of biomedical engineering with secondary app ...

* 2018

Constantinos Daskalakis Constantinos Daskalakis (; born 29 April 1981) is a Greek theoretical computer scientist. He is a professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labor ...

and

Michael J. Freedman Michael J. Freedman is an American computer scientist who is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he works on distributed systems, networking, and security. He is also the cofounder of database company ...

* 2019 Maria-Florina Balcan * 2020 Shyamnath Gollakota * 2021 Raluca Ada Popa

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