The Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer RADM

Grace Hopper Grace Brewster Hopper (; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of mach ...

) 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 * 1973 Richard H. Lathwell * 1973

Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 192723 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the actor to portray Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent James Bond (literary character), James Bond in the Eon Productions/MGM Studios film series, playing the ...

* 1974 George N. Baird * 1975 Allan L. Scherr * 1976 Edward H. Shortliffe * 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. * 1989 W. Daniel Hillis * 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 * 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 * 1997–1998 ''no award'' * 1999 Wen-mei Hwu * 2000 Lydia Kavraki * 2001 George Necula * 2002 Ramakrishnan Srikant * 2003 Stephen W. Keckler * 2004 Jennifer Rexford * 2005 Omer Reingold * 2006 Dan Klein * 2007 Vern Paxson * 2008 Dawson Engler * 2009 Tim Roughgarden * 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 * 2016 Jeffrey Heer * 2017 Amanda Randles * 2018 Constantinos Daskalakis 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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* The ACM homepage for th
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