The Iverson Award, more formally the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL, is presented by the Special Interest Group on APL (SIGAPL) of 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 membe ...
(ACM). It is presented to a person who has made significant contributions to the
APL programming language
APL (named after the book ''A Programming Language'') is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent m ...
or to the APL community. These contributions may be Technical (i.e. new developments in the APL language itself) or Service (assistance or support to SIGAPL or the APL community generally). The award consists of a plaque and a certificate, and is accompanied by a cash prize and a lifetime membership in SIGAPL.
The award is named in honor of
Kenneth E. Iverson, the creator of APL.
Recipients of the award by year:
* 2016 Morten Kromberg and Gitte Christensen
* 2007 IBM APL2 Products and Services Team
* 2001 Jon McGrew
* 2000 Lynne Shaw
* 1999 William Rutiser
* 1998 Roy Sykes, Jr.
* 1997 John C. McPherson
* 1996
Roger Hui
* 1995 Peter Donnelly and
John Scholes
* 1994 Donald B. McIntyre (geologist)
* 1993
James A. Brown
* 1991
Phil Abrams
* 1990 Ray Polivka
* 1989 Philip Van Cleave
* 1988 Al Rose (Allen J. Rose)
* 1987
Eugene McDonnell
Eugene Edward McDonnell (October 18, 1926 – August 17, 2010) was a computer science pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming language siblings APL and J.
He was a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. After serving as an in ...
* 1986 Raymond Tisserand, Clark Wiedmann, and Alex Morrow
* 1985 Dan Dyer and Ian Sharp
* 1984 Garth Foster
* 1983
Adin Falkoff
Adin D. Falkoff (19 December 1921
– 13 August 2010) was an engineer and computer systems and programming systems designer who was mostly known for his work on the programming language APL and systems for IBM.
Career
Falkoff, born in New Jer ...
See also
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List of computer-related awards
This list of computer-related awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for computer-related work. It excludes computer science awards and competitions, video game awards and web awards, which are covered by separate lists.
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References
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