Knuth Prize
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.
History
The Knuth Prize has been awarded since 1996 and includes an award of $5000. The prize is awarded by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. Prizes are awarded in alternation at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing and at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, which are among the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science.
In contrast with the Gödel Prize, which recognizes outstanding papers, the Knuth Prize is awarded to individuals for their overall effect in the field.
Winners
Since the prize was instituted in 1996, it has been awarded to:[1]
- 1996 – Andrew Yao
- 1997 – Leslie Valiant
- 1999 – László Lovász
- 2000 – Jeffrey Ullman
- 2002 – Christos Papadimitriou
- 2003 – Miklós Ajtai
- 2005 – Mihalis Yannakakis
- 2007 – Nancy Lynch
- 2008 – Volker Strassen
- 2010 – David S. Johnson
- 2011 – Ravi Kannan
- 2012 – Leonid Levin
- 2013 – Gary Miller
- 2014 – Richard J. Lipton[2]
- 2015 – László Babai
- 2016 – Noam Nisan[3]
- 2017 – Oded Goldreich
- 2018 – Johan Håstad
- 2019 – Avi Wigderson
References
- ^ "Knuth Prize". ACM SIGACT. February 17, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
- ^ "ACM Awards Knuth Prize to Pioneer for Advances in Algorithms and Complexity Theory". Association for Computing Machinery. September 15, 2014. Archived from the original on September 20, 2014.
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