ACM Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award

Individuals who have made a surprising or disruptive leapfrog in computing ideas or technologies

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List of ACM Awards

Career-Long Contributions
ACM A.M. Turing Award
ACM Distinguished Service Award
ACM Fellows

Early-to-Mid-Career Contributions
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
ACM Prize in Computing
ACM Distinguished Member
ACM Senior Member

Specific Types of Contributions
ACM Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award
ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring
ACM Gordon Bell Prize
ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling
ACM Luiz André Barroso Award
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
ACM Policy Award
ACM Presidential Award
ACM Software System Award
ACM Athena Lecturer Award
ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award
ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award
SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award

Student Contributions
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing
International Science and Engineering Fair

Regional Awards
ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award
ACM India Early Career Researcher Award
ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman Award
ACM India Outstanding Contribution to Computing Education Award
IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research
CCF-ACM Award for Artificial Intelligence

SIG Awards

How Awards Are Proposed
Establishing an ACM Award
Establishing a Best Paper Award for ACM Periodicals