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Tony Storey
Extracted from the Wikipedia article BCS Lovelace Medal.
Medal recipients
- 2025 Michael Kölling - for his transformative impact on programming education worldwide.
- 2025 Mirella Lapata - for her pioneering research in natural language processing and AI.
- 2024 - Dr. Syed Sahil Khaja - for his pioneering contribution in exemplary leadership in fintech technologies, evolution of blockchain and in the field of cybersecurity.
- 2024 Sue Sentance – for her exceptional contributions and research in computing education.
- 2024 Philippa Gardner – for her contributions to mechanised language specification and scalable software verification and true bug detection.
- 2024 Aggelos Kiayias – for his transformative contributions to the theory and practice of cyber security and cryptography.
- 2023 Tom Crick – for contributions to computer science education across research, policy and practice.
- 2023 Demis Hassabis – for research in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to artificial intelligence and to the UK technology industry.
- 2023 Jane Hillston – for research in recognition of her work developing new approaches to modelling both artificial and natural systems by combining elements of formal languages with mathematical modelling.
- 2020 Ian Horrocks – for significant contributions to the advancements of reasoning systems
- 2020 Nick Jennings and Michael Wooldridge – for contributions to multi-agent systems
- 2019 Marta Kwiatkowska – for probabilistic model checking for the data-rich world
- 2018 Gordon Plotkin – for contributions to semantic framework for programming languages
- 2017 Georg Gottlob – for contributions to the logical and theoretical foundations of databases
- 2016 Andrew Blake – for contributions to the understanding and advancement of computing as a discipline
- 2015 Ross J. Anderson – for contributions to building security engineering into a discipline
- 2014 Steve Furber – for designing the ARM microprocessor architecture and contributions to computer systems
- 2013 Samson Abramsky – for contributions to domain theory, game semantics and categorical quantum mechanics
- 2012 Grady Booch – for contributions to software architecture, software engineering and collaborative environments
- 2011 Hermann Hauser– for entrepreneurship and for co-developing the BBC Micro Computer
- 2010 John C. Reynolds – for contributions to logical foundations of programs and programming languages
- 2009 Yorick Wilks – for contributions to meaning-based understanding of natural language
- 2008 Tony Storey – for contributions to Autonomic Computing
- 2007 Karen Spärck Jones – for contributions to natural language processing
- 2006 Sir Tim Berners-Lee – for inventing the World Wide Web
- 2005 Nick McKeown – for contributions to router hardware design
- 2004 John Warnock of Adobe Systems – for contributions in document processing
- 2002 Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman – for contributions to grid computing
- 2001 Douglas C. Engelbart – for inventing the computer mouse
- 2000 Linus Torvalds – for creating the Linux kernel operating system
- 1998 Michael A. Jackson and Chris Burton – for program design and structured programming