
The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a
software system
A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to s ...
that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded 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) since 1983, with a cash prize sponsored by IBM of currently $35,000.
Recipients
The following is a list of recipients of the ACM Software System Award:
See also
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Software system
A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software). It "consists of a number of separate programs, configuration files, which are used to s ...
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List of computer science awards
References
External links
Software System Award — ACM Awards{{Association for Computing Machinery
Awards established in 1983
Software System Award
Computer science awards