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Citation
For contributions to the early development of operating systems
and its theory and to the core curriculum and development
of computer science as a discipline.
Press Release
Full Citation
Peter J. Denning has made extraordinary contributions to the ACM since 1968, in many
different capacities. He was an ACM Council member (1970-84, 1992-98), and was ACM
President (1980-82). He was Editor-in-Chief of the Communications of the ACM (1983-
92), chaired the ACM Editorial Committee (1986-92) and the Publications Board (1992-98),
chaired ACM SIGOPS (1969), was the first chair of the ACM SIG board (1970-74), led the
development of the ACM digital library, and chaired the ACM Education Board. Denning
became an ACM Fellow with the inception of the designation in 1994. He received the ACM
Distinguished Service Award in 1989 and the Karlstrom Educator Award in 1996.
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