ACM Prize in Computing

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The ACM Prize in Computing is a computer science award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for excellence by scientists early or mid-career. It is endowed with $ 250,000 (2016) and was initially $ 150,000. The prize money was and is partly financed by the foundation of the Infosys Technologies company.

From 2007 to 2015 it was called the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences .

Award winners

Each with laudatory speech:

  • 2007 Daphne Koller for her work which combines relational logic and probability and enables the application of probabilistic thinking to a wide range of topics including robotics, economics and biology .
  • 2008 Jon Kleinberg for his contributions to the science of networks and the World Wide Web. His work has a deep connection between social insight and mathematical reasoning .
  • 2009 Eric Brewer for designing and developing highly scalable Internet services and innovations to bring information technology to developing countries.
  • 2010 Frans Kaashoek for his revolutionary contributions to the structuring, robustness, scalability and security of software systems that enabled efficient, mobile and widely distributed applications and created important new research directions .
  • 2011 Sanjeev Arora for contributions to complexity theory, algorithms and optimization that helped to reshape our understanding of the computational concept .
  • 2012 Jeff Dean , Sanjay Ghemawat for leadership roles in large distributed systems such as the Internet in both research and engineering applications .
  • 2013 David Blei for contributions to the theory and practice of probabilistic modeling and Bayesian machine learning .
  • 2014 Dan Boneh for pioneering contributions to the development of pairing-based cryptography and its application to identity-based encryption .
  • 2015 Stefan Savage for innovative research on network security, data protection and reliability that taught us to see attacks and attackers as elements in a coherent technological, social and economic system
  • 2016 Alexei A. Efros for a groundbreaking data-driven approach to computer graphics and computer vision .
  • 2017 Dina Katabi for creative contributions to wireless networks .
  • 2018 Shwetak Patel for contributions to creative and practical sensor systems for sustainability and health.
  • 2019 David Silver for breakthrough advances in computer games.

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