The SIGCSE Lifetime Service to Computer Science Education is an awarded granted by the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...
(ACM)
Special Interest Group (SIG)
SIGCSE
SIGCSE is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (CSE), which provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of c ...
annually since 1997, for lifetime fcontributions to
computer science education
Computer science education or computing education is the art of teaching and learning the discipline of computer science, and computational thinking. As a subdiscipline of pedagogy it also addresses the wider impact of computer science in soci ...
.
Laureates
Laureates have included:
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Gloria Townsend, 2019
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Eric S. Roberts
Eric S. Roberts is an American computer scientist noted for his contributions to computer science education through textbook authorship and his leadership in computing curriculum development. He is a co-chair of the ACM Education Council, form ...
, 2018
[https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/press-releases/2018/february/sigcse-2018.pdf ]
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Mats Daniels, 2017
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Barbara Boucher Owens, 2016
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Frank Young, 2015
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Andrea Lawrence, 2014
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Henry Walker, 2013
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Gordon Davies, 2011
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Peter J. Denning
Peter James Denning (born January 6, 1942) is an American computer scientist and writer. He is best known for pioneering work in virtual memory, especially for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which addressed thrashing in o ...
, 2010
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Michael Clancy, 2009
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Dennis J. Frailey
Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius.
The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is someti ...
, 2008
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John Impagliazzo, 2007
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Joyce Currie Little, 2006
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Andrew McGettrick, 2005
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Bruce Klein, 2004
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A. Joe Turner, 2002
* , 2001
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James Miller, 2000
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Bob Aiken, 1999
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Della Bonnette, 1998
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Dick Austing, 1997
References
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Academic awards
Computer science education