| Award | SIG | Notes |
| Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award | SIGARCH | Important service to the computer architecture community |
| Alonzo Church Award | SIGLOG | Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation |
| CHI Academy | SIGCHI | Advancement of the field of human-computer interaction |
| Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award | SIGACT | Best student-authored paper in Symposium on Theory of Computing |
| Dhaka Site | ICPC | University programming competition |
| Dijkstra Prize | PODC | Co-sponsor: International Symposium on Distributed Computing. For outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing |
| Doctoral Dissertation Award | | Best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering |
| Eckert–Mauchly Award | | Co-sponsor: IEEE Computer Society. Contributions to computer and digital systems architecture |
| Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award | SIGMOD | Innovative and highly significant contributions of enduring value to the development, understanding, or use of database systems and databases |
| Eugene L. Lawler Award | | Significant contribution to the use of information technology for humanitarian purposes |
| Gerard Salton Award | SIGIR | Significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval |
| Gödel Prize | SIGACT | Co-sponsor: European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. For outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science |
| Gordon Bell Prize | | Outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications |
| Grace Murray Hopper Award | | Computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution at or before age 35 |
| Ken Kennedy Award | | Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. For substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions |
| Knuth Prize | SIGACT | Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. For outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science |
| Mark Weiser Award | SIGOPS | Creativity and innovation in operating system research |
| Maurice Wilkes Award | SIGARCH | Outstanding contribution to computer architecture |
| Paris Kanellakis Award | | Specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing |
| Penny Crane Award for Distinguished Service | SIGUCCS | Significant contributions to the Special Interest Group, and to computing in higher education |
| Prize in Computing | | Early to mid-career innovative contributions in computing |
| Programming Languages Software Award | SIGPLAN | Programming Languages Software |
| Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award | | Replaced in 1983 by the ACM Software System Award |
| SIGCOMM Award | SIGCOMM | Lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks |
| SIGUCCS Hall of Fame Award | SIGUCCS | Contributions that have had a positive impact on the ACM SIGUCCS organization |
| Software System Award | | Software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both |
| Steven A. Coons Award | SIGGRAPH | Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics |
| SPAA Parallel Computing Award | SPAA | Singular important result or a career of accomplishments related to the ACM-SPAA community |
| Turing Award | | Contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field |
| Award | Sponsor | Notes |
| Charles Babbage Award | IEEE Computer Society | Significant contributions in the field of parallel computing |
| Claude E. Shannon Award | IEEE Information Theory Society | Consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory |
| Computer Pioneer Award | IEEE Computer Society | Those whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry |
| Harlan D. Mills Award | IEEE Computer Society | Contributions to the theory and practice of the information sciences, software engineering |
| Harry H. Goode Memorial Award | IEEE Computer Society | Achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period |
| Internet Award | IEEE, Nokia | Exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications |
| John von Neumann Medal | IEEE | Outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology |
| Kleene Award | IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science | Best student paper |
| Machtey Award | IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science | Best student paper |
| Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award | IEEE | Outstanding contributions to information storage systems |
| Richard W. Hamming Medal | IEEE, Qualcomm | Outstanding achievements in information sciences, information systems and information technology |
| Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award | IEEE Computer Society | Significant and innovative contributions in the field of high-performance computing |
| Sidney Fernbach Award | IEEE Computer Society | Outstanding contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches |
| Test-of-Time Award | IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science | Papers from LICS twenty years earlier that stood the "test of time" |
| W. Wallace McDowell Award | IEEE Computer Society | Outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest |
| William C. Carter Award | IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and IFIP Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance | Significant contribution to the field of dependable and secure computing throughout his or her PhD dissertation |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
| Australia | Hutter Prize | Marcus Hutter | Data compression improvements on a specific 1 GB English text file |
| Canada | AI Challenge | University of Waterloo Computer Science Club | Artificial intelligence programming |
| United States | American Computer Science League | ACSL | Programming |
| United States | Arimaa Challenge | Arimaa / Omar Syed | Artificial intelligence programming |
| Sweden | CADE ATP System Competition | Association for Automated Reasoning | Fully automated theorem provers for classical logic |
| United States | World Computer-Bridge Championship | American Contract Bridge League | Contract bridge using computer software |
| United Kingdom | Cyber Centurion | Cyber Security Challenge UK | Cyber security competition for school children, |
| United States | CyberPatriot | Air Force Association | National Youth Cyber Defense Competition for high school and middle school students |
| United States | DARPA Network Challenge | DARPA | Internet and social networking competition |
| United States | DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011 | DARPA | Competition for methods to reconstruct documents shredded by a variety of paper shredding techniques |
| Poland | Deadline24 | Tomasz Łakota and Mateusz Brzeszcz | Programming |
| United States | Halite AI Programming Competition | Two Sigma, Cornell Tech | Open-source computer programming contest |
| United States | ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge | ImageNet | Software programs compete to classify and detect objects and scenes |
| International | International Olympiad in Informatics | UNESCO and IFIP | School competition |
| United Kingdom | Loebner Prize | Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour | Computer programs considered by the judges to be the most human-like |
| United States | National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition | University of Texas at San Antonio | College-level cyber defense competition |
| United States | Netflix Prize | Netflix | Best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films |
| United States | Outreachy | Software Freedom Conservancy | Three-month paid internships with free and open-source software projects |
| United States | Password Hashing Competition | Jean-Philippe Aumasson | Competition to select one or more password hash functions |
| United Kingdom | Project Euler | Colin Hughes | Computational problems intended to be solved with computer programs |
| United States | SemEval | Association for Computational Linguistics SIGLEX | Evaluations of computational semantic analysis systems |
| United States | Text Retrieval Conference | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity | Information retrieval research areas |
| Australia | UAV Outback Challenge | Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation | Competition for the development of unmanned aerial vehicles |
| United States | University Voting Systems Competition | National Science Foundation etc. | Students design, implement, and demonstrate open-source election systems |