W. Wallace McDowell Award

2020 Sushil JajodiaSushil Jajodia

2018 Moti YungMoti Yung

2022 Rafail OstrovskyRafail Ostrovsky

2021 Charu AggarwalCharu Aggarwal

Past Recipients

2022 Rafail Ostrovsky

For visionary contributions to computer security theory and practice, including foreseeing new cloud vulnerabilities and then pioneering corresponding novel solutions.

2021 Charu Aggarwal

For contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining.

2020 Sushil Jajodia

For contributions to the scientific and engineering principles that enable effective adaptive cyber defense.

2019 Rajesh K. Gupta

For seminal contributions in design and implementation of Microelectronic Systems-on-Chip and Cyberphysical Systems.

2018 Moti Yung

For innovative contributions to computer and network security, predicting, both attack scenarios and design needs in this important evolving era.

2017 Srinivas Devadas

For groundbreaking contributions to topics ranging from computational complexity, to the analysis of algebraic computations, to logics of programs and verification.

2016 Dexter C. Kozen

For fundamental algorithmic and application specific architectural contributions to reconfigurable computing.

2015 Viktor K. Prasanna

For fundamental contributions to the development of multidimensional spatial data structures and indexing, translation validation, and proof-carrying code.

2014 Hanan Samet

For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of multi-processor computation.

2013 Maurice Herlihy

For fundamental and lasting contributions to the theory of databases.

2012 Ronald Fagin

For pioneering contributions to wireless sensor network architectures and communication protocols.

2011 Ian F. Akyildiz

For significant contributions to knowledge discovery and data mining.

2009 Jiawei Han

For pioneering contributions to the algorithmic, compilation, and architectural foundations of embedded computing.

2008 Krishna V. Palem

For pioneering contributions to theory, technique, and practice of pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition systems.

2007 Anil K. Jain

For fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear and resource-constrained optimization.

2006 Benjamin W. Wah

For seminal contributions to networking protocols and to wireless data networks.

2005 Krishan K. Sabnani

For outstanding fundamental contributions in network protocols and security services.

2004 Simon Lam

For contributions to the theory of NP-hard and NP-complete problems.

2003 Sartaj K. Sahni

For leading contributions on the architecture and design of data storage systems and RAID technology.

2002 Jaishankar M. Menon

For significant contributions to the design of re-configurable real-time software systems, and for significant contributions to undergraduate and graduate education in electrical and computer engineering and robotic

2001 Pradeep K. Khosla

For his vision, determination, and programming skill in the development of Lotus Notes, a program that enables groups of people to work collaboratively over computer networks.

2000 Raymond Ozzie

For your impact on the high performance microprocessor industry via a combination of important contributions to both engineering and education.

1999 Yale N. Patt

For your impact on the high performance microprocessor industry via a combination of important contributions to both engineering and education.

1998 Tilak Agerwala

For outstanding contributions to the development of high performance computers.

1997 Marc Andreessen

For developing a multi-platform browsing tool for the World Wide Web.

1997 Eric Bina

For developing a multi-platform browsing tool for the World Wide Web.

1996 Timothy Berners-Lee

For innovative invention of the World Wide Web, which extends hypertext to distributed information, which has brought about a revolutionary transformation in the use of computers and networks.

1995 Kenneth W. Kennedy

For important contributions to theory and practice of compiler optimization and leadership in the development of software for parallel computation.

1994 Federico Faggin

For the development of the Silicon Gate Process, and the first commercial microprocessor.

1990 Lawrence G. Roberts

For architecting packet switching technology and bringing it into practical use by means of the ARPA network.

1989 Edward B. Eichelberger

For developing the level-sensitive scan technique of testing solid-state logic circuits and for leading, defining, and promoting design for testability concepts.

1989 Thomas W. Williams

For developing the level-sensitive scan technique of testing solid-state logic circuits and for leading, defining, and promoting design for testability concepts.