ACM Software System Award

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The Software System Award is honoring people or an organization "for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1983, with a cash prize sponsored by IBM of currently $35,000.^[1]

Recipients

ACM 2005 Software System Award

The following is a list of recipients of the ACM Software System Award:^[1]

• 2011 - Eclipse: John Wiegand, Dave Thomson, Gregory Adams, Philippe Mulet, Julian Jones, John Duimovich, Kevin Haaland, Stephen Northover, and Erich Gamma
• 2010 – GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems: Peter Bergstrom, Lee R Gordon, Jonathan L Herlocker, Neophytos Iacovou, Joseph A Konstan, Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, David Maltz, Sean McNee, Bradley N Miller, Paul J Resnick, John T Riedl, Mitesh Suchak
• 2009 - VMware Workstation for Linux 1.0: Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum, Jeremy Sugerman, Edward Y. Wang
• 2008 - Gamma Parallel Database System: David DeWitt, Robert Gerber, Murali Krishna, Donovan Schneider, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Goetz Graefe, Michael Heytens, Hui-I Hsiao, Jeffrey Naughton, Anoop Sharma
• 2007 - Statemate: David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Mark Trakhtenbrot, Aron Trauring
• 2006 - Eiffel: Bertrand Meyer
• 2005 - The Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover: Robert S. Boyer, Matt Kaufmann, J Strother Moore
• 2004 - Secure Network Programming: Raghuram Bindignavle, Simon S. Lam, Shaowen Su, Thomas Y. C. Woo
• 2003 - make: Stuart Feldman
• 2002 - Java: James Gosling
• 2001 - SPIN model checker: Gerard Holzmann
• 1999 - The Apache Group: Brian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau, Andrew Wilson
• 1998 - S: John Chambers
• 1997 - Tcl/Tk: John Ousterhout
• 1995 - NCSA Mosaic: Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina
• 1995 - World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau
• 1994 - Remote Procedure Call: Andrew Birrell, Bruce Nelson
• 1993 - Sketchpad: Ivan Sutherland
• 1992 - Interlisp: Daniel Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren Teitelman
• 1991 - TCP/IP: Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn
• 1990 - NLS: Douglas C. Engelbart, William English, Jeff Rulifson
• 1989 - PostScript: Douglas K. Brotz, Charles M. Geschke, William H. Paxton, Edward A. Taft, John E. Warnock
• 1988 - INGRES: Gerald Held, Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong
• 1988 - System R: Donald Chamberlin, Jim Gray, Raymond Lorie, Gianfranco Putzolu, Patricia Selinger, Irving Traiger
• 1987 - Smalltalk: Adele Goldberg, Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Alan C. Kay
• 1986 - TeX: Donald E. Knuth
• 1985 - VisiCalc: Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston
• 1984 - Xerox Alto: Butler W. Lampson, Robert Taylor, Charles P. Thacker
• 1983 - UNIX: Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson

See also

• Software system

References