The Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer

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) has been awarded by the

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(ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution at or before age 35. __TOC__

Recipients

* 1971

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of comp ...

* 1972 Paul H. Dirksen * 1972 Paul H. Cress * 1973

Lawrence M. Breed Lawrence Moser "Larry" Breed (July 17, 1940 – May 16, 2021) was a computer scientist, artist and inventor, best known for his involvement in the programming language APL. Career As an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961, he created ...

* 1973 Richard H. Lathwell * 1973

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* 1974 George N. Baird * 1975 Allan L. Scherr * 1976

Edward H. Shortliffe Edward ("Ted") Hance Shortliffe (born 1947) is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. He was the principal developer of the ...

* 1977 ''no award'' * 1978

Ray Kurzweil Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), speech synthesis, text-to-speech synthesis, spee ...

* 1979

Steve Wozniak Stephen Gary Wozniak (; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname Woz, is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Inc., Apple Computer with ...

* 1980 Robert M. Metcalfe * 1981 Daniel S. Bricklin * 1982 Brian K. Reid * 1983 ''no award'' * 1984 Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. * 1985

Cordell Green Cordell Green (born 1941) was an American computer scientist who was the director and chief scientist of the Kestrel Institute. Green received a B.A. and B.S. from Rice University. At Stanford University, he earned an M.S. and then a PhD in 196 ...

* 1986 William Nelson "Bill" Joy * 1987

John Ousterhout John Kenneth Ousterhout (, born October 15, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was previously a professor of com ...

* 1988

Guy L. Steele Jr. Guy Lewis Steele Jr. (; born October 2, 1954) is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages and technical standards. Biography Steele was born in Missouri ...

* 1989

W. Daniel Hillis William Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. He founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a parallel superc ...

* 1990

Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman ( ; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to ...

* 1991

Feng-hsiung Hsu Feng-hsiung Hsu (; born January 1, 1959) (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer. His work led to the creation of the Deep Thought chess computer, which led to the first chess playing computer t ...

* 1992 ''no award'' * 1993

Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (; ; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer sci ...

* 1994–1995 ''no award'' * 1996

Shafrira Goldwasser Shafrira Goldwasser (; born 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. A winner of the Turing Award in 2012, she is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a professor o ...

* 1997–1998 ''no award'' * 1999

Wen-mei Hwu Wen-mei Hwu () is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist. He is the Senior Director of Research and Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Corporation as well as the Walter J. Sanders III- AMD Endowed Chair Professor Emeritus in Elec ...

* 2000

Lydia Kavraki Lydia E. Kavraki () is a Greek- American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering at Rice University. She is also the direc ...

* 2001

George Necula George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist, engineer at Google, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on ...

* 2002

Ramakrishnan Srikant Ramakrishnan Srikant is a Google Fellow at Google. His primary field of research is Data Mining. His 1994 paper, "Fast algorithms for mining association rules", co-authored with Rakesh Agrawal has acquired over 27000 citations as per Google S ...

* 2003 Stephen W. Keckler * 2004

Jennifer Rexford Jennifer Rexford is an American computer scientist who is currently the Provost, Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and formerly the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Her res ...

* 2005

Omer Reingold Omer Reingold () is an Israeli computer scientist. He is the Rajeev Motwani professor of computer science in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and the director of thSimons Collaboration on the Theory of Algorithmic Fairness ...

* 2006

Dan Klein Daniel Klein (born 1976) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He was educated at Mt. Leb ...

* 2007

Vern Paxson Vern Edward Paxson is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also leads the Networking and Security Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His interests range from tr ...

* 2008

Dawson Engler Dawson R. Engler is an American computer scientist and an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. Career After graduating from University of Arizona, Engler earned his Ph.D. from the Massachuse ...

* 2009

Tim Roughgarden Timothy Avelin Roughgarden (born July 20, 1975) is an American computer scientist and a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Roughgarden's work deals primarily with game theoretic questions in computer science. Roughgarden rec ...

* 2010 Craig Gentry * 2011

Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn (; born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and software developer. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. For these projects and othe ...

* 2012

Martin Casado Martín Casado is a Spanish-born American software engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and was a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nicir ...

and

Dina Katabi Dina Katabi () is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center. She was designated as one of the world’s most influential women engineers by ''Forbes'' m ...

* 2013 Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb * 2014

Sylvia Ratnasamy Sylvia Ratnasamy (born 1976) is a Belgian-Indian computer scientist. She is best known as one of the inventors of the distributed hash table (DHT). Her doctoral dissertation proposed the content-addressable networks, one of the original DHTs, a ...

* 2015

Brent Waters Brent R. Waters is an American computer scientist, specializing in cryptography and computer security. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Career Waters attended the University of California, Los ...

* 2016

Jeffrey Heer Jeffrey Michael Heer (born June 15, 1979) is an American computer scientist best known for his work on information visualization and interactive data analysis. He is a professor of computer science & engineering at the University of Washington, ...

* 2017 Amanda Randles * 2018

Constantinos Daskalakis Constantinos Daskalakis (; born 29 April 1981) is a Greek theoretical computer scientist. He is a professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

and Michael J. Freedman * 2019 Maria-Florina Balcan * 2020 Shyam Gollakota * 2021 Raluca Ada Popa * 2022 Mohammad Alizadeh * 2023 Prateek Mittal * 2024 Ilias Diakonikolas

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