Knuth Prize
The Knuth Prize (officially the Donald E. Knuth Prize ) is a computer science prize awarded to scientists for exceptional achievements in the fundamentals of computer science. It is named after Donald Knuth and has been awarded every year and a half since 1996 by the ACM SIGACT and the IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on the mathematical foundations of computing). The prize is endowed with $ 5,000.
Award winners
- 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
- 2009: David Stifler Johnson
- 2011: Ravindran Kannan
- 2012: Leonid Levin
- 2013: Gary L. Miller
- 2014: Richard J. Lipton
- 2015: László Babai
- 2016: Noam Nisan
- 2017: Oded Goldreich
- 2018: Johan Håstad
- 2019: Avi Wigderson
- 2020: Cynthia Dwork