The Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer RADM Grace Hopper) 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 * 1972 Paul H. Dirksen * 1972

Paul H. Cress Paul H. Cress (1939–2004) was a Canadian computer scientist. He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of progra ...

* 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 George N. Baird is an American computer scientist. From 1967 into the 1970s, Baird worked on computer programming languages in the United States Navy under Grace Hopper. He later worked for the National Bureau of Standards. In 1974, he was awarde ...

* 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 * 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 Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an engineer and entrepreneur from the United States who helped pioneer the Internet starting in 1970. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the e ...

* 1981

Daniel S. Bricklin Daniel Singer Bricklin (born July 16, 1951) is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Tr ...

* 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 * 1992 ''no award'' * 1993 Bjarne Stroustrup * 1994–1995 ''no award'' * 1996 Shafrira Goldwasser * 1997–1998 ''no award'' * 1999 Wen-mei Hwu * 2000 Lydia Kavraki * 2001 George Necula * 2002 Ramakrishnan Srikant * 2003

Stephen W. Keckler Stephen William Keckler is an American computer scientist and the current Vice President of Architecture Research at NVIDIA. Keckler received a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and an MS and PhD in computer science fr ...

* 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 * 2006 Dan Klein * 2007 Vern Paxson * 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 * 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 Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb is a computer scientist and professor of the School of Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Brown University. Career Felzenszwalb studied computer science at Cornell University, receiving his B.S. in 1999. ...

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

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