The Tsutomu Kanai Award was established by the

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in 1997 by an endowment from

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, and named in honor of Dr. Tsutomu Kanai, who served as Hitachi’s president for 30 years. The Kanai Award may be presented annually upon the recommendation of the Kanai Award subcommittee, endorsement of the Awards Committee and approval of the Board of Governors. The Kanai Award recognized major contributions to the state-of-the-art

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systems and their applications. The award consisted of a crystal model, a certificate, and $10,000. In the evaluation process, the following criteria were considered: seminal nature of the achievements, practical impact, breadth and depth of contributions, and quality of the nomination.

Ken Thompson Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programmi ...

was the first Tsutomu Award winner in 1999 and Beng Chin Ooi was the last, in 2012. The award was discontinued afterwards.

List of recipients

* 2012 Beng Chin Ooi * 2011 Ian Foster * 2009 Kenneth P. Birman * 2008 Benjamin W. Wah * 2007 Willy Zwaenepoel * 2006

Larry Smarr Larry Lee Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure from Missouri. He currently works at the University of California, San Diego. Smarr has been among the most important synthe ...

* 2005

Elisa Bertino Elisa Bertino is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and is acting as the research director of CERIAS, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, an institute attached to Purdue University. Berti ...

* 2004 Kane Kim * 2003

James Gosling James Gosling (born May 19, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language. Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conceptio ...

* 2002 Stephen S. Yau * 2001 Alfred Z. Spector * 2000 C. V. Ramamoorthy * 1999

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* {{Official website Computer science awards IEEE society and council awards Awards established in 1997 Awards disestablished in 2012

List of recipients

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