List of computer science awards
This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of [Electrical and Electronics Engineers], other computer science and information science awards, and a list of computer science competitions.
The top computer science award is the ACM Turing Award, generally regarded as the Nobel Prize equivalent for Computer Science. Other highly regarded top computer science awards include IEEE John von Neumann Medal awarded by the IEEE Board of Directors, and the Japan Kyoto Prize for Information Science.
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery gives out many computer science awards, often run by one of their Special Interest Groups.| 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 |
| ICPC Dhaka Site|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 |
| ACM [SIGUCCS Hall of Fame Award|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 |
IEEE
A number of awards are given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the IEEE Computer Society or the IEEE Information Theory Society.| 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 |
| IEEE [John von Neumann Medal|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 |
Other computer science awards
Information science awards
Competitions
| 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 |