Software Engineering Awards
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Including many awards related to Programming Languages/Compilers

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ACM Turing Award Recipients
ACM Software System Award Recipients
Members of National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Members of National Academy of Science (NAS)
Fellows of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
ACM Fellows 
IEEE Fellows 
 ACM Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, or Member
ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee  
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award 
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Service Award 
ICSE/FSE/ASE/ISSTA/PASTE General/Program Chairs
Most Influential Papers of ICSE  (International Conference on Software Engineering)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award 
Automated Software Engineering Conference Best Paper Award Candidate On-line Bibliography  
EASST Best Paper Awards 
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award Recipients and NSF CAREER Award Recipients 
Some other fellowship awards
 Harlan D Mills Award from IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering
Stevens Award
AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners 
 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
 ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals
Other Awards


ACM. Turing Award Recipients (Related to Software Engineering & Program Language)

1966 A.J. Perlis
1972
E.W. Dijkstra
1974
Donald E. Knuth
1977
John Backus
1978 Robert W. Floyd
1979 Kenneth E. Iverson
1980
C. Antony R. Hoare
1984
Niklaus Wirth
1986 John Hopcroft
1991
Robin Milner
1995
Manuel Blum
1996
Amir Pnueli
1999
Frederick P. Brooks
2001 Ole-Johan Dahl   Kristen Nygaard 
2003 Alan Kay 
2005 Peter Naur

ACM Software System Award Recipients (Related to Software Engineering & Program Language)

 1987 Adele Goldberg  Daniel H.H. Ingalls  Alan C. Kay Smalltalk
 1992 Daniel G. Bobrow  Richard R. Burton  L. Peter Deutsch  Ronald M. Kaplan  Larry Masinter Warren Teitelman Interlisp
 2001 Gerard Holzmann  SPIN 
 2002 James A. Gosling  Java 
 2003 Stuart Feldman  MAKE
 2005 Robert S Boyer  Matt Kaufmann  J Strother Moore  The Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover

National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Members related to Software Engineering or Program Languages/Compilers:
 To honor extraordinary contributions to engineering and society.
 Note: The list is in the form of First Name Last Name (Current Affiliation, Inducted Year), where First Name links to the award citation and Last Name links to the homepage.

  Frederick P. Brooks (UNC, 76)
  John Backus (??, 77)
  Donald E. Knuth (Stanford U., 81)
  John Hopcroft (Columbia U., 87)
  Frances E. Allen (IBM Research, 87)  
  John McCarthy (Stanford U., 87)
  Barbara Liskov (MIT, 88)
  Ken Kennedy (Rice U., 90)

  Susan Graham (UC Berkeley, 93) 
  William A. Wulf (U. Virginia, 93) 

  Anita K. Jones (U. Virginia, 94)

  Bill Gates (Microsoft, 96)
  Barry Boehm (USC, 96) 

  Steven Jobs (Apple, 97) 
  Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research, 97)

  Alfred V. Aho (Columbia U., 99)
  Richard Lipton (Georgia Tech, 99)
  Amir Pnueli (Weizmann Institute of Science, 99)

  Nancy Leveson (MIT, 00) 
  Gerald J. Sussman (MIT, 00)

  Nancy Lynch (MIT, 01)
  John Ousterhout (Electric Cloud, 01
  Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Sun, 01)

  Brian Kernighan (Princeton U., 02)
  Richard M. Stallman (Free Software Foudation, 02)
  Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U., 02)
  Elaine Weyuker (AT&T Labs, 02)  

  James A. Gosling (Sun Labs, 04)
  Alfred Z. Spector (IBM Research, 04)  
  Bjarne Stroustrup (TAMU, 04)

  Paul G. Allen (Vulcan, 05)
  Edmund Clarke (CMU, 05)
  David Culler (UC Berkely, 05)
  Gerard J. Holzmann (NASA JPL, 05)

  Manuel Blum (CMU, 06)
  Susan J. Eggers (U. Washington, 06)
  Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research, 06)
     

National Academy of Science (NAS) Members related to Software Engineering or Program Languages/Compilers:
  Award to recognize outstanding achievements in science.

    John Backus (IBM, 74)
    Donald
Knuth (Stanford U., 75)
    Dana
Scott (CMU, 88)
    Frederick Brooks (UNC, 01)
    Manuel Blum (UC Berkeley, 02)


American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows related to Software Engineering or Program Languages/Compilers:
  An international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders 

   Dana S. Scott (CMU, 72)
   Donald E. Knuth (Stanford U., 73)
   John McCarthy (Stanford U., 74)
   Frederick P. Brooks (UNC, 76)
   John Backus (??, 85)
   John Hopcroft (Columbia U., 87)
   Albert R. Meyer (MIT, 87)
   Bill Gates (Microsoft, 92)
   Barbara Liskov (MIT, 92)
   Frances E. Allen (IBM Research, 94)  
   Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research, 94)
   Manuel Blum (UC Berkeley, 95)
   Susan Graham (UC Berkeley, 95) 
   William A. Wulf (U. Virginia, 95) 
   Gerald J. Sussman (MIT, 96)
   Steven Jobs (Apple, 00) 
   Anita K. Jones (U. Virginia, 00)
   Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Sun, 02)
   Alfred V. Aho (Columbia U., 03)
   Richard M. Stallman (Free Software Foudation, 03)
   John Guttag (MIT, 05)

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows related to Software Engineering or Program Languages/Compilers:
   
To recognize research in the interaction of science, technology and government in the United States and around the world.

   
Rick Adrion (U Mass)
    Manuel Blum (UC Berkeley)
    James C. Browne (UT Austin)
    Karl Chang (Iowa State U.)
    Richard DeMillo (Georgia Tech)
    Peter A. Freeman (Georgia Tech)
    Susan Graham (UC Berkeley) 
    David J. Gries (Cornell U.)
    John Hopcroft (Columbia U.)
    Anita K. Jones (U. Virginia)
    Ken Kennedy (Rice U.)
 
   Michael R. Lyu (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)
    Peter G. Neumann (SRI)
    Calton Pu (Georgia Tech)
    Mary Shaw (CMU)
    Eugene Spafford (Purdue U.)
    Gerald J. Sussman (MIT)
    Jeffrey Tsai (U. Illinois at Chicago)
    Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.)
    Benjamin W. Wah (UIUC)
    William A. Wulf (U. Virginia) 
    Stephen S. Yau (Arizona State U.)

   

 ACM Fellows  
    ACM Fellows (SIGPLAN)   ACM Fellows (SIGSOFT) 
    Established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM.
   
ACM Fellows related to Software Engineering or Program Languages:

    1994 ACM Fellows
    Frances E. Allen (IBM Research, 94)  
    Frederick P. Brooks (UNC, 94)  Daniel G. Bobrow (PARC, 94)   Richard R. Burton (PARC, 94)
    L. Peter Deutsch (Aladdin, 94)    Edsger W. Dijkstra (UT Austin, 94)   
    Robert W. Floyd (Stanford, 94)  Frank L. Friedman (Temple U., 94) 
    Adele J. Goldberg (??, 94)    Susan Graham (UC Berkeley, 94)      David J. Gries (Cornell U., 94)   
    David Harel (Weizmann Institute of Science, 94)  John Hopcroft (Columbia U., 94)
    Ronald M Kaplan (PARC, 94)    Donald E. Knuth (Stanford U., 94) 
    Manny Lehman (Middlesex U., 94)   Joyce Currie Little ( Towson U., 94)
    Zohar Manna (Stanford U., 94)  John McCarthy (Stanford U., 94)    Robin Milner (U. Cambridge, 94)
    Roger M. Needham (MSR, 94)    Peter G. Neumann (SRI, 94)  
    John Ousterhout (Electric Cloud, 94)  Susan S. Owicki (??, 94)  
    David L. Parnas (U. Limerick, 94) 
    Jean
Sammet (IBM, 04)    Dana S. Scott (CMU, 94)      Herbert A. Simon (CMU, 94)   Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Sun, 94)    Bjarne Stroustrup (TAMU, 94)  Gerald J. Sussman (MIT, 94)  
    Andries van Dam (Brown U., 94) 
    Niklaus E. Wirth (ETH Zurich, 94)    William A. Wulf (U. Virginia, 94)  
       
    1995 ACM Fellows
    Paul Abrahams (?, 95)   Robert L. Ashenhurst (U. Chicago, 95) 
    Lawrence Bernstein (Stevens Institute of Technology, 95) Grady Booch (IBM, 95)   
    Larry E. Druffel (ACRA, 95)   Stuart Feldman (IBM Research, 95)  John Goodenough (CMU, 95)       Ken Kennedy (Rice U., 95)    Nancy Leveson (MIT, 95)  
    Fred B. Schneider (Cornell U., 95)  Larry Snyder (U. Washington, 95)  Norihisa Suzuki (Zaxel, 95) 
    Jeffrey  Ullman (Stanford U., 95)  
    Chris S. Wallace (Monash U., 95)   Peter Wegner (Brown U., 95)

    1996 ACM Fellows
    Rick Adrion (U. Mass, 96) Alfred V. Aho (Columbia U., 96)
    Jeanne Ferrante (UCSD, 96)     Dennis J. Frailey (SMU, 94)
    Anita K. Jones (U. Virginia, 96)    Barbara Liskov (MIT, 96)   
    Ravi Sethi (Avaya Labs, 96)   Mary Shaw (CMU, 96)  
    Tony Wasserman (Software Methods and Tools, 96)  Mark Wegman (IBM Research, 96)    

    1997 ACM Fellows 
    Victor Basili (U. Maryland, 97)   Barry Boehm (USC, 97)  
    Yuri Gurevich (MSR, 97)  John L Hennessy (Stanford U, 97)   Richard Kemmerer (UCSB, 97)   
    Richard Lipton (Georgia Tech, 97)  Nancy Lynch (MIT, 97)
    Ronald H Perrott (Queen's U. Belfast, 97)  Vaughan Pratt (Stanford U., 97) 
    Alan C. Shaw (U. Washington, 97)   Elaine Weyuker (AT&T Labs, 97)

    1998 ACM Fellows 
    Gregory R Andrews (U. Arizona, 98)  Andrew Appel (Princeton U., 98) 
    James C. Browne (UT Austin, 98)
    Robert Cartwright (Rice U., 98)  Peter P. Chen (Louisiana State U., 98)  Edmund Clarke (CMU, 98)   Lori Clarke (U. Mass, 98) 
    Richard Gabriel (Sun Labs, 98)   James Horning (InterTrust, 98)  Neil Jones (U. Copenhagen, 98) 
    David Notkin (U. Washington, 98)   Leon Osterweil (U. Mass, 98)  Barbara Ryder (Rutgers U., 98)  Eugene Spafford (Purdue U., 98)  
    Richard Taylor (UC Irvine, 98)   Albert J Turner (Clemson U, 98)
    Jeannette Wing (CMU, 98)    Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia U., 98)  Stuart H. Zweben (Ohio State U., 98)s

    1999 ACM Fellow 
    John D Gannon (U. Maryland, 99)  Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, 99)  Robert Glass (Computing Trends, 99)
    Larry Masinter (Adobe, 99)  David MacQueen (Bell Labs, 99) 
    Mary Lou Soffa (U. Virginia, 99)   Koji Torii (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 99)

    2000 ACM Fellows 
    Randal E. Bryant (CMU, 00)  Peter A. Freeman (Georgia Tech, 00)  Axel van Lamsweerde (U. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 00) 
    Albert R. Meyer (MIT, 00)    Jim Morris (CMU, 00) 
    Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U., 00) 
    David S. Warren (SUNY Stony Brook, 00)   Reinhard Wilhelm (U. des Saarlandes, 00)

    2001 ACM Fellows 
    Alan Borning (U. Washington, 01) 
    Richard B Kieburtz (OGI, 01)    Jeffrey Kramer (Imperial College, 01)
    Barton Miller (U Wisconsin, 01)   John C. Reynolds (CMU, 01)    Zave Pamela (AT&T Labs, 02)

    2002 ACM Fellows 
   
David Culler (UC Berkely, 02)    Susan J. Eggers (U. Washington, 02)   Wen-Mei Hwu (UIUC, 02)

    2003 ACM Fellows 
    Richard DeMillo (Georgia Tech, 04) 
    Brent Hailpern (IBM Research, 04)  Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech, 04)

    2004 ACM Fellows 
    Luca Cardelli (MSR, 05)  Simon Peyton Jones (MSR, 05)   Peter Lee (CMU, 05)
    Benjamin W. Wah (UIUC, 05)  David S. Wise (Indiana U., 05)

    2005 ACM Fellows
    Dines Bjorner (06)     Keith Cooper (Rice U., 06)  David Dill (Stanford U., 06)  Robert Harper (CMU, 06) 
    Brad Myers (CMU, 06)   Thomas Reps (U. Wisconsin, 06)   Liu Sha (UIUC, 06) 

    2006 ACM Fellows
    Arvind (MIT, 06)    Matthias Felleisen (Northeastern U., 06)   John Guttag (MIT, 06)    
    Thomas A. Henzinger (EPFL, 06)   James R. Larus (Microsoft Research, 06)  J Strother Moore (UT Austin, 06)
    Peter  Norvig (Google, 06)  Alfred Z Spector (IBM Research, 06)  Alex Wolf (U. Colorado, Imperial College London)


IEEE Fellows related to Software Engineering or Program Languages/Compilers:
  
Conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

    1968: Marvin Minsky (MIT)
    1970: Heinz Zemanek (IBM)
    1972: Watts S. Humphrey (CMU SEI)
    1973: Stephen S. Yau (Arizona State U.)
    1978: CV Ramamoorthy (UC Berkeley)
    1983: Manuel Blum (UC Berkeley)
    1985: Per Brinch Hansen (Syracuse U.)  David J. Kuck (Intel) 
    1986: Manny Lehman (Middlesex U.)
    1987: John D. Musa (Independent Consultant)
    1988: Alfred V. Aho (Columbia U.) Laszlo A. (Les) Belady (Tech Innovation Group)  Fred Liguori (?) 
    1989: Amrit Goel (Syracuse U.)  William Wulf (U. Virginia)
    1990: Victor Basili (U. Maryland)
    1991: Frances Allen (IBM Research) Stuart Feldman (IBM Research) John L. Hennessy (Stanford U.) Jack Minker (U. Maryland) William E. Riddle (CMU SEI)  Larry Ruffel (SCRA)  
    1992: Barry W. Boehm (USC)  Larry Snyder (U. Washington)
    1993: Michael A. Harrison (UC Berkeley) Norman Schneidewind (Naval Postgraduate School)  
    1994: Wen-Tsuen Chen (?)  Alan Davis (U. Corolado)  
    1995: Arvind (MIT) Brent Hailpern (IBM Research)  Ken Kennedy (Rice U.)
    1996: Peter Freeman (Georgia Tech) Harold Lawson, Jr. (?)  Jeffrey Tsai (U. Illinois at Chicago)  Tony Wasserman (Software Methods&Tools) 
    1997: Ram Chillarege (Chillarege)  Anita Jones (U. Virginia)  Eric Kronstadt (IBM Research)  Marvin Zelkowitz (U. Maryland)
    1998: Doris L. Carver (Louisiana State U.)  Wen-Mei Hwu (UIUC)   Liu Sha (UIUC)   Dick Simmons (TAMU)   Pen-Chung Yew (UMN)
    1999: Jean-Luc Gaudiot (UC Irvine)   Luqi (Naval Postgraduate School)  Rudrapatna Shyamasundar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
    2000: Tom DeMarco (Atlantic Systems Guild)  David Padua (UIUC)  Koji Torii (Osaka U.)
    2001: Karl Chang (Iowa State U.) William E. Howden (UCSD)  Sy-Yen Kuo (National Taiwan U.)  Richard H. Thayer (Independent Consultant)   Mladen A. Vouk (NCSU)
    2002: Gul Agha (UIUC)  Vijay Vaishnavi (Georgia State U.) 
   
2003: Steve Cross (CMU SEI)  Susan Eggers (U. Washington) H. Dieter Rombach (Technische U. Kaiserslautern)  Leonard L. Tripp (Boeing)  Elaine J. Weyuker (AT&T Labs)  Jeannette M. Wing (CMU)  Xin Yao (U. Birmingham)  Fuqing Yang (Peking U.)
    2004: Pankaj Jalote (IIT)  Michael Lyu (CUHK)  Raymond Paul (?) Ronald H Perrott (Queen's U. Belfast)  Mark Wegman (IBM Research)
    2005: Dines Bjørner (U. Denmark)  Roy Campbell (UIUC)  Edmund Clarke (CMU)  Thomas M. Conte (NCSU)  Jeanne Ferrante (UCSD) Hoang Pham (Rutgers U.)  Alfred Z. Spector (IBM Research)   Bjarne Stroustrup (TAMU)
    2006: Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano) Thomas Henzinger (EPFL)  Nancy Mead (CMU)  James Moore (Mitre) Douglass Post (LANL)  David Rosenblum (U. College London) Min Xie (National U. Singapore)
    2007: Bill Curtis (Borland)  Mehdi Jazayeri (U. Lugano, Switzerland)
    2008:
Rajeev Alur (U. Penn)   Guang R. Gao (U. Delaware)  Michael Gschwind (IBM Research)  Rajiv Gupta (UC Riverside)   Phillip A. Laplante (PSU)   David Notkin (U. Washington)  Anand Tripathi (U. Minnesota)

  ACM Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, or Member

     2006 ACM Distinguished Engineers   
               
David M. Ungar, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
     2006 ACM Distinguished Scientists
              
George S. Avrunin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
               David F.Bacon, IBM Research            
               Hans-J. Boehm, HP Labs
               Kathryn S. McKinley, The University of Texas at Austin
               Vivek Sarkar, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 ACM SIGSOFT Executive Committee  
            Chair: William Griswold
            Vice Chair: David Rosenblum 
            Secretary/Treasurer:  Metthew B. Dwyer
            At-Large Members:  Laura K. Dillon    Andreas Zeller   Paola Inverardi 
            Newsletter Editor:    Will Tracz
            International Liaison:  Tetsuo Tamai    Wilhelm Schäfer

            Most Recent Past Chair:  Alexander Wolf 
            Past Chairs:  David Notkin  Lori Clarke  Richard N. Taylor  Rick Adrion  Bill Riddle  Marvin Zelkowitz  Tony Wasserman

 

ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award

1997 Barry Boehm
1998 David Parnas
1999 Niklaus Wirth
1999 Harlan Mills (one-time posthumous)
2000 Victor Basili 
2001 Michael Jackson
2002 Gerard Holzmann
2003 Leon J. Osterweil
2004 Nancy Leveson
2005 Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee
2006 David Harel
2007 Elaine J. Weyuker

ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Service Award

1995 Tony Wasserman
1996 Rick Adrion
1997 Peter Neumann
1998 Bruce Barnes
1999 Bill Riddle
2000 Marvin Zelkowitz
2001 Kouichi Kishida
2002 Lori Clarke
2003 Axel van Lamsweerde
2004 Will Tracz
2005 Richard N. Taylor
2006 Carlo Ghezzi
2007 David Notkin

 

ICSE/FSE/ASE/ISSTA/PASTE General/Program Chairs

ICSE Year ICSE General
Chair
ICSE Program
Chairs
FSE Year FSE General
Chair
FSE Program
Chair
ASE Year ASE General
Chair
ASE Program
Chair
1993 Baltimore Victor Basili Richard DeMillo
Takuya Katayama
1993 Los Angeles ? David Notkin 1993 Chicago Bruce Johnson Mehdi Harandi
1994 Sorrento Bruno Fadini Leon J. Osterweil
Axel van Lamsweerde
1994 New Orleans Rick Adrion David Wile 1994 Monterey Douglas R. Smith Richard Jullig
1995 Seattle Dewayne Perry Ross Jeffery 
David Notkin
1995 DC ? Gail E. Kaiser 1995 Boston Haward Reubenstein Dottie Setliff
1996 Berlin Dieter Rombach Tom Maibaum 
Marvin Zelkowitz
1996 San Francisco Mark Moriconi
Gregory Abowd
David Garlan 1996 Syracuse Doug White Chris Welty
1997 Boston Richards Adrion Alfonso Fuggetta Richard N. Taylor 
Anthony Wasserman
1997 Zurich Mehdi Jazayeri Helmut Schauer 1997 Lake Tahoe Chris Welty Michael Lowry
Yves Ledru
1998 Kyoto Koji Torii Kokichi Futatsugi  Richard Kemmerer 1998 Lake Buena Vista Leon J. Osterweil Bill Scherlis 1998 Honolulu Alex Quilici David F. Redmiles
Bashar Nuseibeh
1999 LA Barry Boehm David Garlan 
Jeff Kramer
1999 Toulouse M. Lemoine Oscar Nierstrasz 1999 Cocoa Beach Dorothy Setliff Robert J. Hall
Ernst Tyugu
2000 Limerick Carlo Ghezzi Mehdi Jazayeri 
Alex Wolf
2000 San Diego John C. Knight David Rosenblum 2000 Grenoble Yves Ledru Perry Alexander
Pierre Flener
2001 Toronto Hausi A. Müller Mary Jean Harrold 
Wilhelm Schäfer
2001 Vienna A Min Tjoa  Volker Gruhn 2001 San Diego Debra Richardson Martin S. Feather
Michael Goedicke
2002 Orlando Will Tracz Michal Young 
Jeff Magee
2002 Charleston Mary Lou Soffa William Griswold 2002 Edinburgh Julian Richardson Wolfgang Emmerich
David Wile
2003 Portland Lori Clarke Laurie Dillon 
Walter Tichy
2003 Helsinki Jukka Paakki Paola Inverardi 2003 Montreal Houari Sahraoui John Grundy
John Penix
2004 Edinburgh Anthony Finkelstein Jacky Estublier 
David S Rosenblum
2004 Newport Beach Richard Taylor Matthew Dwyer 2004 Linz Paul Grünbacher Virginie Wiels
Kurt Stirewalt
2005 St. Louis Gruia-Catalin Roman William Griswold 
Bashar Nuseibeh
2005 Lisbon Michel Wermelinger Harald Gall 2005 Long Beach David Redmiles Tom Ellman
Andrea Zisman
2006 Shanghai Leon J. Osterweil Mary Lou Soffa  
Dieter Rombach
2006 Portland Michal Young Prem Devanbu 2006 Tokyo  Shinichi Honiden Sebastian Uchitel
Steve Easterbrook
2007 Minneapolis John C. Knight Wolfgang Emmerich  
Gregg Rothermel
2007  Dubrovnik Ivica Crnkovic Antonia Bertolino