The Roger Needham award is a prize given scientists who are recognised for important contributions made to computer science research The

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

established an annual Roger Needham Award in honour of

Roger Needham Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist. Early life and education Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis Mary, ''née'' Baker (''c''.1904–1976) and Leonard Wil ...

in 2004. It is a £5000 prize is presented to an individual for making "a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK-based researcher within ten years of their PhD." The award is funded by

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

. The winner of the prize has an opportunity to give a public lecture.

Laureates

Since 2004, laureates have included: * 2004

Jane Hillston Jane Elizabeth Hillston (born 1963) is British professor of Quantitative Modelling and Head of School in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Early life and education Hillston received a BA in Mathematics from the U ...

on ''Tuning Systems: From Composition to Performance'' * 2005

Ian Horrocks Ian Robert Horrocks One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford in the UK and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. His research ...

on ''Ontologies and the Semantic Web'' * 2006

Andrew Fitzgibbon Andrew Fitzgibbon VC (13 May 1845 – 7 March 1883) was a British soldier, and possibly the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross. Details Fitzgibbon was born in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India. He was fifteen years old, and a Hospital App ...

on ''Computer Vision & the Geometry of Nature'' * 2007

Mark Handley Mark Handley is a playwright and screenwriter. In 1977, he and his wife moved to the Pacific Northwest where they lived in isolation in a log cabin that they built themselves. He is best known for his play ''Idioglossia An idioglossia (from ...

on ''Evolving the Internet: Challenges, Opportunities and Consequences'' * 2008

Wenfei Fan Wenfei Fan () is a Chinese-British computer scientist and professor of web data management at the University of Edinburgh. His research investigates database theory and database systems. Education Fan was educated at Peking University (BS, MS ...

on ''A Revival of Data Dependencies for Improving Data Quality'' * 2009 Byron Cook on ''Proving that programs eventually do something good'' * 2010 on ''Timing is Everything'' * 2011

Maja Pantić Maja Pantić ( sr-cyr, Маја Пантић; Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) (born 13 April 1970) is a Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computing at Imperial College London and an AI Scientific Research Lead in Faceb ...

on ''Machine Understanding of Human Behaviour'' * 2012 on ''Memory Safety Proofs for the Masses'' * 2013 on ''Theory and Practice: The Yin and Yang of Intelligent Information Systems'' * 2014 on ''Mining Biological Networks'' * 2015 on ''Linking Form and Function, Computationally'' * 2016

Sharon Goldwater Sharon J. Goldwater is an American and British computer scientist, cognitive science, cognitive scientist, developmental linguistics, developmental linguist, and natural language processing researcher who holds the Personal Chair of Computational ...

''Language Learning in Humans and Machines: Making Connections to Make Progress'' * 2017 on ''Many-Core Programming: How to Go Really Fast Without Crashing'' * 2018

Alexandra Silva Alexandra Silva (born 1984) is a Portuguese computer scientist and Professor at Cornell University. She was previously Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation at University College London. Awards and honours Silva won a Philip Leverhu ...

* 2019 * 2020 Jade Alglave

Awards committee

the prize is judged by an awards committee with the following members: * Professor ,

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

* Professor

Steve Furber Stephen Byram Furber (born 21 March 1953) is a British computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, currently the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. A ...

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

* Professor

James H. Davenport James Harold Davenport (born 26 September 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. Having done his PhD and early research at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, he is the Hebron and Medlock Professor ...

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

* Julia Adamson, Director of Education, BCS * Professor

Muffy Calder Dame Muffy Calder (née Thomas; born 21 May 1958) is a Canadian-born British computer scientist, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. From 2012 to 2015 she ...

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* Dr. Martin Sadler * Dr. ,

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

* Professor Katie Atkinson,

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

References

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Laureates

Awards committee

See also

References