Dahl–Nygaard Prize
The Dahl–Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes in the area of software engineering, though it is a relatively new prize.
The winners of both awards are announced at the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming. The prizes are named after Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, two Norwegian pioneers in the area of programming and simulation. The prize was created by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets in 2004.
The recipients of the prize are:
- 2025, Bergen: Mira Mezini and Amir Shaikhha
- 2024, Vienna: Rachid Guerraoui and Alvin Cheung
- 2023, Seattle: Sophia Drossopoulou and Heather Miller
- 2022, Berlin: Dan Ingalls and Magnus Madsen
- 2021, Aarhus: Kim Bruce and Karim Ali
- 2020, Berlin: Jan Vitek and Jonathan Bell
- 2019, London: Laurie Hendren and Ilya Sergey
- 2018, Amsterdam: Lars Bak and Guoqing Harry Xu
- 2017, Barcelona: Gilad Bracha and Ross Tate
- 2016, Rome: James Noble, and Emina Torlak
- 2015, Prague: Bjarne Stroustrup and Alexander J. Summers
- 2014, Uppsala: William Cook, Robert France, and Tudor Gîrba
- 2013, Montpellier: Oscar Nierstrasz and Matthew Parkinson
- 2012, Beijing: Gregor Kiczales and Tobias Wrigstad
- 2011, Lancaster: Craig Chambers and Atsushi Igarashi
- 2010, Maribor: Doug Lea and Erik Ernst
- 2009, Genoa: David Ungar
- 2008, Paphos: Akinori Yonezawa and Wolfgang De Meuter
- 2007, Berlin: Luca Cardelli and Jonathan Aldrich
- 2006, Nantes: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
- 2005, Glasgow: Bertrand Meyer and Gail C. Murphy