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The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a
software system
A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to se ...
that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded by the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...
(ACM) since 1983, with a cash prize sponsored by IBM of currently $35,000.
Recipients
The following is a list of recipients of the ACM Software System Award:
See also
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Software system
A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to se ...
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List of computer science awards
This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, other comput ...
References
External links
Software System Award — ACM Awards{{Association for Computing Machinery
Awards established in 1983
Software System Award
The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded by ...
Computer science awards