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The Charles Babbage Premium was an annual award "for an outstanding paper on the design or use of electronic computers".[1][2]

The award was established in 1959.[1] It was initiated by the British Institution of Radio Engineers, which became the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers.[3] In 1988, it merged with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), which later became the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2006. Winners have been announced in journals such as Nuclear Power: The Journal of British Nuclear Engineering,[4] Electronic Engineering,[5] British Communications and Electronics,[6] and the Software Engineering Journal.[7]

Charles Babbage, after whom the award is named

The Premium was named after the mathematician Charles Babbage FRS (1791–1871), inventor of the Analytical Engine, a design for an early mechanical computer.

The IET now makes separate Premium Awards for papers in each of its journals,[8] named after the journal itself. This includes the IET Software Premium Award, the nearest equivalent to the Charles Babbage Premium Award.

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  2. ^ Webster, Valerie J., ed. (1999). Charles Babbage Premium. Vol. 2: International and Foreign. Gale Research. pp. 544, 547. ISBN 978-0787615024. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Clifford, Graham D.; Sharp, Frank W. (1989). Charles Babbage Premium. History of Technology series. Peter Peregrinus. p. 168. ISBN 978-0787615024. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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  8. ^ "IET Premium Awards". The Institution of Engineering and Technology. Retrieved 20 April 2020.