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The Charles Babbage Premium was an annual
award An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An awar ...
"for an outstanding paper on the design or use of electronic computers". The award was established in 1959. It was initiated by the
British Institution of Radio Engineers The Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) was a professional organization for radio engineers. It was originally established in 1925 as the Institute of Wireless Technology. It renamed itself British Institution of Radio Engineer ...
, which became the
Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers The Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) was a professional organization for radio engineers. It was originally established in 1925 as the Institute of Wireless Technology. It renamed itself British Institution of Radio Engineer ...
. In 1988, it merged with the
Institution of Electrical Engineers The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers. It began in 1871 as the Society of T ...
(IEE), which later became the
Institution of Engineering and Technology The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and ...
(IET) in 2006. Winners have been announced in journals such as ''Nuclear Power'', ''Electronic Engineering'', ''British Communications and Electronics'', and the ''
Software Engineering Journal Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
''. The Premium was named after the mathematician
Charles Babbage Charles Babbage (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered ...
FRS (1791–1871), inventor of the
Analytical Engine The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a desig ...
, a design for an early mechanical computer. The IET now makes separate Premium Awards for papers in each of its journals, named after the journal itself. This includes the ''
IET Software ''IET Software'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on software engineering and related issues, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the United Kingdom. The journal was previously published under the following ti ...
Premium Award'', the nearest equivalent to the Charles Babbage Premium Award.


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1959 establishments in the United Kingdom Awards established in 1959 British awards Awards for scholarly publications Computer science awards Awards disestablished in 1988 Institution of Engineering and Technology
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