The Lovelace Medal was established by the British Computer Society in 1998, and is presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the understanding or advancement of computing. It is the top award in computing in the UK. Awardees deliver the Lovelace Lecture. The award is named after Countess Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician, scientist, and writer. Lovelace was the daughter of

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...

. She worked with computer pioneer Charles Babbage on the proposed mechanical general-purpose computer – the Analytical Engine, in 1842 and is often described as the world's first female computer programmer. The medal is intended to be presented to individuals, without regard to their countries of domicile, provided a direct connection to the UK. It is generally anticipated that there will be one medalist each year, but the regulation does not preclude either several medalists or no medalist.

Medal recipients

Awardees include: *2020

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– for significant contributions to the advancements of reasoning systems *2020 Nick Jennings and Michael Wooldridge – for contributions to

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*2019 Marta Kwiatkowska – for probabilistic model checking for the data-rich world *2018

Gordon Plotkin Gordon David Plotkin, (born 9 September 1946) is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and h ...

– for contributions to semantic framework for programming languages *2017

Georg Gottlob Georg Gottlob FRS is an Austrian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence and is Professor of Informatics at the University of Oxford. Education Gottlob obtained his undergraduate and PhD ...

– 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 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 Grady Booch (born February 27, 1955) is an American software engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language (UML) with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh. He is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software archi ...

– for contributions to software architecture, software engineering and collaborative environments *2011

Hermann Hauser Hermann Maria Hauser, KBE, FRS, FREng, FInstP, CPhys (born 1948) is an Austrian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England. Education and early life W ...

– 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 Yorick Wilks FBCS (born 27 October 1939), a British computer scientist, is emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield, visiting professor of artificial intelligence at Gresham College (a post created especiall ...

– for contributions to meaning-based understanding of natural language *2008 Tony Storey – for contributions to Autonomic Computing *2007

Karen Spärck Jones Karen Sparck Jones is a computer science researcher and innovator who pioneered the search engine algorithm known as inverse document frequency (IDF). While many early information scientists and computer engineers were focused on developing progr ...

– for contributions to natural language processing *2006

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profes ...

– for inventing the World Wide Web *2005

Nick McKeown Nicholas (Nick) William McKeown FREng, is the SVP/GM of the Network and Edge Group at Intel and a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at Stanford University. He has also started technology companies in Silicon ...

– for contributions to router hardware design *2004

John Warnock John Edward Warnock (born October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist and businessman best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke. Warnock was President of Adobe for ...

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 Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android. He also ...

– for creating the Linux kernel operating system *1998 Michael A. Jackson and Chris Burton – for program design and structured programming

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Medal recipients

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