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 scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...
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, List of pioneers in computer science, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programm ...
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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
*1989:
*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
Kurt Mehlhorn (born 29 August 1949) is a German theoretical computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
Education and career
Mehlhorn graduated in ...
*1997:
José Luis Encarnação
*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 ...
*2006:
Ingo Wegener
*2007:
Manfred Broy
*2009:
Reinhard Wilhelm
Reinhard Wilhelm (born June 5, 1946) is a German computer scientist.
Life and work
Wilhelm was born in , today part of the municipality of Finnentrop, Westphalia. He studied math, physics and mathematical logic at University of Münster and co ...
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*2011:
Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch[.]
*2011:
Volker Strassen
*2013:
Markus Gross
*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 in a ...
*2019:
Dorothea Wagner[.]
*2021:
Gerhard Weikum
Gerhard Weikum (born September 28, 1957) is a German computer scientist and Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department. His current ...
*2023:
Anja Feldmann
*2024: Thomas Liebich, André Borrmann
See also
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List of computer science awards
This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, other comput ...
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List of prizes named after people
References
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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
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