- ALL ACM AWARDS
- ACM A.M. Turing Award
- ACM - Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences
- Distinguished Service Award
- Doctoral Dissertation Award
- ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
- Gordon Bell Prize
- Grace Murray Hopper Award
- International Science and Engineering Fair
- Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
- Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
- ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
- Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
- ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
- Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award
- ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award
- ACM Presidential Award
- SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
- Software System Award
- ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award
- ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award
- ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Advanced Grades of Membership
Recent Award News
Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali Receive 2012 ACM Turing Award for Advances in Cryptography
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations of modern theoretical cryptography, taking it from a field of heuristics and hopes to a mathematical science with careful definitions and security models, precise specifications of adversarial capabilities, and rigorous reductions from formally defined computational problems. Their results, jointly and with others, established the now-standard definitions of security for the fundamental primitives of encryption and digital signatures, and provided exemplary implementations meeting the stated security objectives. Even more importantly, their work helped to establish the tone and character of modern cryptographic research. Jointly and in collaboration with others, they provided stunning innovations in the form of random functions, interactive proofs, and zero-knowledge protocols, with implications beyond cryptography to theoretical computer science in general.
ACM, Infosys Foundation Honor Google Developers Dean, Ghemawat for Innovations that Boost Online Search Capabilities
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat led the conception, design, and implementation of much of Google's revolutionary software infrastructure, which has transformed the practice and understanding of Internet-scale computing. Their efforts, along with those of their collaborators, created the first software designs for systems that harness the power of tens of thousands of computers. Their designs for systems such as MapReduce and BigTable are remarkable for scalability, the grace with which they tolerate faults, and the ease with which they support the construction of many new distributed services. We are in a new age of Internet-scale computing thanks in significant measure to the engineering innovations of Dean and Ghemawat.
ACM Honors Computing Innovators
Award Winners Made Breakthroughs in Network Efficiency, Data Mining, Education, Game Theory, Programming, and Community Problem-Solving
ACM has announced the winners of six prestigious awards for their innovations in computing technology. These innovators have made significant contributions that enable computer science to solve real-world challenges. The awards reflect achievements in computer networks, information retrieval, computer science education, multi-agent systems, versatile compiler technologies, and computer-human interactive technologies. The 2012 ACM award winners, from internationally known research and academic institutions, include prominent computer scientists, educators, and entrepreneurs.
ACM will present the 2012 - 2013 Awards at its annual Awards Banquet on June 15 in San Francisco, CA.
The A.M. Turing Award, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of Computing, was named in honor of Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954), a British mathematician and computer scientist. He made fundamental advances in computer architecture, algorithms, formalization of computing, and artificial intelligence. Turing was also instrumental in British code-breaking work during World War II.