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IEEE MEDAL RECIPIENTS

2021 JEFFREY ADGATE DEAN “For contributions to the and (nonmember)— Senior of large-scale distributed Fellow, Mountain View, , computer systems and artificial intelligence USA systems.”

2020 MICHAEL I. JORDAN “For contributions to learning and Professor, University of California, data science.” Berkeley, California, USA

2019 EVA TARDOS “For contributions to the of , Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of including foundational new methods in , Cornell optimization, approximation algorithms, and University, Ithaca, , USA algorithmic game theory.”

2018 PATRICK COUSOT “For introducing abstract interpretation, a Professor, New York University, powerful framework for automatically New York, New York, USA calculating program properties with broad application to verification and optimization.”

2017 VLADIMIR VAPNIK “For the development of statistical learning Professor, and theory, the theoretical foundations for Facebook AI Research, New York, machine learning, and support vector New York, USA .”

2016 CHRISTOS HARILAOS "For providing a deeper understanding of PAPADIMITRIOU computational complexity and its Professor, University of California, implications for approximation algorithms, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA artificial intelligence, economics, theory, and biology."

2015 JAMES A. GOSLING “For the Java programming language, Java Chief Software Architect, Liquid Virtual Machine, and other contributions to Robotics, Redwood, California, USA programming languages and environments.”

2014 CLEVE MOLER “For fundamental and widely used Chief Mathematician, MathWorks, contributions to numerical linear algebra and Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA scientific and engineering software that transformed computational science.”

2013 JACK B. DENNIS “For fundamental abstractions to implement Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts protection in operating systems and for the Institute of Computer dataflow programming paradigm.” Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

1 of 4 IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL RECIPIENTS

2012 EDWARD McCLUSKEY “For fundamental contributions that shaped Professor Emeritus, Departments of the design and testing of digital systems.” Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, , Stanford, CA, USA

2011 C.A.R. (TONY) HOARE “For seminal contributions to the scientific Principal Researcher, Microsoft foundation of software design.” Research Ltd.; Cambridge, UK

2010 “For laying the foundations for the fields of IBM Professor of Engineering and automata and language theory and many Applied , Cornell seminal contributions to theoretical computer University, Cornell, NY, USA science.”

AND Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA

2009 SUSAN L. GRAHAM “For contributions to programming language Pehong Chen Distinguished design and implementation and for Professor of Computer Science, exemplary service to the discipline of Univ of California at Berkeley, computer science.” Berkeley, CA, USA

2008 “For establishment of the foundations of Researcher, Microsoft Corporation, distributed and .” Silicon Valley Research Center, Mountain, View, CA, USA

2007 CHARLES THACKER “For a central role in the creation of the Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft personal computer and the development of Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA networked computer systems.”

2006 “For fundamental contributions to computer President, Pixar Animation Studios, graphics, and a pioneering role in the use of Emeryville, CA, USA computer animation in pictures.”

2005 "For contributions to the design, Adjunct Professor, Laboratory for implementation, and commercialization of CS, Massachusetts Institute of relational and -relational database Technology, Bedford, NH, USA systems."

2004 BARBARA H. LISKOV “For fundamental contributions to Ford Professor of Engineering and programming languages, programming Associate Head for Computer methodology, and distributed systems.” Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA 2 of 4 IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL RECIPIENTS

2003 ALFRED V. AHO “For contributions to the foundations of Professor, Columbia University, computer science and to the fields of New York, NY, USA algorithms and software tools.”

2002 OLE-JOHAN DAHL "For the introduction of the concepts Univ of Oslo, Oslo, Norway underlying object-oriented programming AND through the design and implementation of SIMULA 67." Univ of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

2001 BUTLER W. LAMPSON "For technical leadership in the creation of Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft timesharing, , and Adjunct Professor at MIT networking security and program languages."

2000 JOHN L. HENNESSY “For creating a revolution in computer Stanford University architecture through their exploration, Stanford, CA, USA popularization, and commercialization of architectural innovations.” AND DAVID A. PATTERSON University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA

1999 DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART "For creating the foundations of real , Bootstrap Institute interactive, personal computing including Fremont, CA, USA CRT displays, windows, the mouse, hypermedia linking and conferencing, and on-line journals."

1998 IVAN EDWARD SUTHERLAND "For pioneering contributions to computer Microsystems Laboratories graphics and microelectronic design, and Palo Alto, CA, USA leadership in the support of computer science and engineering research"

1997 MAURICE V. WILKES "For a lifelong career of seminal Olivetti Research Ltd. contributions to computing, including the Cambridge, England first full-scale operational stored program computer and to the foundations of programming."

1996 CARVER A. MEAD "For leadership and innovative contributions California Institute of Technology to VLSI and creative microelectronic Pasadena, CA, USA structures."

1995 DONALD E. KNUTH "For fundamental contributions to the theory Stanford University and practice of computer science and to the Stanford, CA, USA art of computer programming."

1994 "For contributions to the computer industry 3 of 4 IEEE JOHN VON NEUMANN MEDAL RECIPIENTS

IBM/T.J. Watson Research Center including the invention, development and Yorktown Heights, NY, USA implementation of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture and program optimization technology."

1993 FREDERICK P. BROOKS, JR. "For significant developments in computer Univ. of North Carolina architecture, insightful observations on Chapel Hill, NC, USA software engineering, and for computer science education and professional service."

1992 C. GORDON BELL "For innovative contributions to computer Stardent Computer architecture and design." Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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