Lovelace Medal
The Lovelace Medal (German: "Lovelace Medal") has been awarded by the British Computer Society since 1998 to personalities in computer science or to personalities who have made IT understandable.
The award is named after the mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815–1852). Lovelace and Charles Babbage (1791–1871) are often referred to as the first programmers .
The prize is awarded annually to personalities who have made a significant contribution to information systems or their comprehensibility in industry , teaching , technology or administration .
Usually only one person is awarded per year, but there can be several.
Award winners
- 1998: Michael A. Jackson and Chris Burton
- 2000: Linus Torvalds
- 2001: Douglas C. Engelbart
- 2002: Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman
- 2004: John Warnock
- 2005: Nick McKeown
- 2006: Tim Berners-Lee
- 2007: Karen Spärck Jones
- 2008: Tony Storey
- 2009: Yorick Wilks
- 2010: John C. Reynolds
- 2011: Hermann Hauser
- 2012: Grady Booch
- 2013: Samson Abramsky
- 2014: Steve Furber
- 2015: Ross Anderson
- 2016: Andrew Blake
- 2017: Georg Gottlob
- 2018: Gordon Plotkin
- 2019: Marta Kwiatkowska
Individual evidence
- ^ J. Fuegi and J. Francis: Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 'notes'. In: Annals of the History of Computing 25 # 4 (Oct. – Dec. 2003): 16–26. doi: 10.1109 / MAHC.2003.1253887
- ↑ Oxford University Professor named as BCS Lovelace Medal Winner 2019. In: wired-gov.net. July 1, 2019, accessed July 1, 2019 .
Web links
- British Computer Society: Lovelace Medal and Lovelace Lecture (including award winners)