The Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science is the highest award of the (German Computer Science Society), given every two years to one or sometimes two leading German

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...

s. It is named after German computer pioneer

Konrad Zuse Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program- ...

.. Note that a different medal with the same name is also given out by the Zentralverband des Deutschen Baugewerbes (Central Association of German Construction).

Recipients

Source
Gesellschaft für Informatik
*1987:

Heinz Billing Heinz Billing (7 April 1914 – 4 January 2017) was a German physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitation ...

*1989: Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann *1989: Robert Piloty *1991: *1993:

Carl Adam Petri Carl Adam Petri (12 July 1926 in Leipzig – 2 July 2010 in Siegburg) was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Life and work Petri created his major scientific contribution, the concept of the Petri net, in 1939 at the age of 13, for ...

*1995: Kurt Mehlhorn *1997:

José Luis Encarnação José Luis Moreira da Encarnação is a Portuguese computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany and a senior technology and innovation advisor to governments, mul ...

*1999: Günter Hotz *2001: Theo Härder *2003:

Thomas Lengauer Thomas Lengauer (born 12 November 1952) is a German computer scientist and computational biologist. Education Lengauer studied Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, earning his Diploma in 1975 and a Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to a PhD) in 1 ...

*2006:

Ingo Wegener Ingo Wegener (December 4, 1950 in Bremen – November 26, 2008 in Bielefeld) was an influential German computer scientist working in the field of theoretical computer science. Education and career Wegener was educated at the Bielefeld University. ...

*2007:

Manfred Broy Manfred Broy (born 10 August 1949, Landsberg am Lech) is a German computer scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany. Biography Broy gained his Doctor of Philo ...

*2009: Reinhard Wilhelm. *2011: Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch. *2011:

Volker Strassen Volker Strassen (born April 29, 1936) is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz. For important contributions to the analysis of algorithms he has received many aw ...

*2013:

Markus Gross Markus Gross (born June 14, 1963, Saarland, Germany) is a Professor of Computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH), head of its Computer Graphics Laboratory, and the director of Disney Research, Zurich. His res ...

*2015: Arndt Bode *2017:

Johannes Buchmann Johannes Alfred Buchmann (born November 20, 1953, in Cologne) is a German computer scientist, mathematician and professor emeritus at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is known for his research ...

*2019: Dorothea Wagner. *2021:

Gerhard Weikum Gerhard Weikum is a Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department. His current research interests include transactional and distributed ...

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{{reflist 1987 establishments in Germany Awards established in 1987 Computer science awards German science and technology awards Lists of computer scientists Lists of German people

Medal A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be int ...

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