The J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation is an award given annually by the University of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics to "recognize the leadership and many innovative contributions made to the University of Waterloo, and to the Canadian computer industry." Recipients of this award receive a gold medal and certificate. Recipients are graduates of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics from business, education, or government. The medal was established in 1994 to recognize Canadian

computer industry A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These progra ...

veteran James Wesley Graham (known as "Wes Graham"). Graham was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario on January 17, 1932. He enrolled in the University of Toronto in 1950, and graduated with a BA in Mathematics and Physics in 1954, and an MA in Mathematics in 1955. He worked as a systems engineer for IBM in Canada, and then joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1959. A team of his students developed the

WATFOR WATFIV, or WATerloo FORTRAN IV, developed at the University of Waterloo, Canada is an implementation of the Fortran computer programming language. It is the successor of WATFOR. WATFIV was used from the late 1960s into the mid-1980s. WATFIV was ...

series of compilers starting in 1965. He formed a computer science research group, known as the "Computer Systems Group," to distribute and maintain the software, and was also responsible for several spin-off organizations, including Watcom in 1981. He was made a member of the Order of Canada in April 1999. He died later that year on August 23, 1999. In 2001 his papers formed the start of the J. Wesley Graham History of Computer Science Research Collection at the University of Waterloo library.

Recipients

The following people have received the J. W. Graham Medal: * 1995 -

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* 1996 - William Reeves * 1997 -

James G. Mitchell James George "Jim" Mitchell is a Canadian computer scientist. He has worked on programming language design and implementation ( FORTRAN WATFOR, Mesa, Euclid, C++, Java), interactive programming systems, dynamic interpreting and compiling, docume ...

* 1998 - Dan Dodge * 1999 - Kim Davidson * 2000 - Paul Van Oorschot * 2001 - Terry Stepien * 2002 -

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* 2003 - F. David Boswell * 2004 - David P. Yach * 2005 - Garth A. Gibson * 2006 - Deanne Farrar * 2007 - Ricardo Baeza-Yates * 2008 -

Eric Veach Eric Veach is a Canadian computer scientist known for his research on improvements to Monte Carlo sampling in Computer Graphics, which won him two technical academy awards. Education and career Veach obtained a Bachelor of Mathematics degree ...

* 2009 -

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* 2010 - Steven Woods * 2011 -

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* 2012 -

Stephen M. Watt Stephen M. Watt, a computer scientist and mathematician, is past Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He previously held the title of D ...

* 2013 -

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* 2014 - Jeromy Carriere * 2015 - Tom Duff * 2016 -

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* 2017 - Vicki Iverson * 2018 - Alex Nicolaou * 2019 - Eldon Sprickerhoff

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{{reflist University of Waterloo Computer science awards Information science awards 1994 establishments in Ontario

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