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ACM Prize in Computing
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<h2 id="recipients">Recipients</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th>Recipients</th><th>Citation</th></tr><tr><th>2024</th><td><a href="/facts/Torsten_Hoefler/bwKEVj45">Torsten Hoefler</a></td><td>For fundamental contributions to high-performance computing and the ongoing AI revolution</td></tr><tr><th>2023</th><td><a href="/facts/Amanda_Randles/tE4Pae6F">Amanda Randles</a></td><td>For ground-breaking contributions to computational health through innovative algorithms, tools, and high performance computing methods for diagnosing and treating a variety of human diseases</td></tr><tr><th>2022</th><td><a href="/facts/Yael_Tauman_Kalai/bcIJju8n">Yael Tauman Kalai</a></td><td>For breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography.</td></tr><tr><th>2021</th><td><a href="/facts/Pieter_Abbeel/dBdfK0P9">Pieter Abbeel</a></td><td>For contributions to robot learning, including learning from demonstrations and deep reinforcement learning for robotic control.</td></tr><tr><th>2020</th><td><a href="/facts/Scott_Aaronson/htGK5zuz">Scott Aaronson</a></td><td>For groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing.</td></tr><tr><th>2019</th><td><a href="/facts/David_Silver_(computer_scientist)/dyvrRreB">David Silver</a></td><td>For breakthrough advances in computer game-playing.</td></tr><tr><th>2018</th><td><a href="/facts/Shwetak_Patel/xjrEs77t">Shwetak Patel</a></td><td>For contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health.</td></tr><tr><th>2017</th><td><a href="/facts/Dina_Katabi/06RqAqFE">Dina Katabi</a></td><td>For her groundbreaking work in human-sensing technologies using wireless signals and in reducing interference across wireless networks.</td></tr><tr><th>2016</th><td><a href="/facts/Alexei_A._Efros/QqAtvkpf">Alexei A. Efros</a></td><td>For groundbreaking data-driven approaches to computer graphics and computer vision.</td></tr><tr><th>2015</th><td><a href="/facts/Stefan_Savage/a1wrso1C">Stefan Savage</a></td><td>For innovative research in network security, privacy, and reliability that has taught us to view attacks and attackers as elements of an integrated technological, societal, and economic system.</td></tr><tr><th>2014</th><td><a href="/facts/Dan_Boneh/kQYdavuY">Dan Boneh</a></td><td>For ground-breaking contributions to the development of <a href="/facts/Pairing-based_cryptography/vpk8ygca">pairing-based cryptography</a> and its application in <a href="/facts/Identity-based_encryption/xgYEomQ9">identity-based encryption</a>.</td></tr><tr><th>2013</th><td><a href="/facts/David_Blei/n00xrhJY">David Blei</a></td><td>For contributions to the theory and practice of probabilistic topic modeling and Bayesian machine learning.</td></tr><tr><th>2012</th><td><a href="/facts/Jeff_Dean_(computer_scientist)/YIEWyTM4">Jeffrey Dean</a> and <a href="/facts/Sanjay_Ghemawat/ppwWMYHj">Sanjay Ghemawat</a></td><td>For their leadership in the science and engineering of Internet-scale distributed systems.</td></tr><tr><th>2011</th><td><a href="/facts/Sanjeev_Arora/W3C8BLQI">Sanjeev Arora</a></td><td>For contributions to computational complexity, algorithms, and optimization that have helped reshape our understanding of computation.</td></tr><tr><th>2010</th><td><a href="/facts/Frans_Kaashoek/Uj5hT1xe">Frans Kaashoek</a></td><td>For his landmark contributions to the structuring, robustness, scalability, and security of software systems, enabling efficient, mobile, and highly distributed applications and setting important research directions.</td></tr><tr><th>2009</th><td><a href="/facts/Eric_A._Brewer/MrWDQGJv">Eric A. Brewer</a></td><td>For his design and development of highly scalable internet services and innovations in bringing information technology to developing regions.</td></tr><tr><th>2008</th><td><a href="/facts/Jon_Kleinberg/x9mhMIhN">Jon Kleinberg</a></td><td>For his contributions to the science of networks and the World Wide Web. His work is a deep combination of social insights and mathematical reasoning.</td></tr><tr><th>2007</th><td><a href="/facts/Daphne_Koller/bdVo9ru9">Daphne Koller</a></td><td>For her work on combining <a href="/facts/Relational_logic/7tjTFXdf">relational logic</a> and probability that allows <a href="/facts/Probabilistic_reasoning/4MIPxPIJ">probabilistic reasoning</a> to be applied to a wide range of applications, including robotics, economics, and biology.</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_computer_science_awards/WeVUHhBs">List of computer science awards</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"About the ACM Prize in Computing". ACM Awards. ACM. Retrieved 22 April 2017. <a href="http://awards.acm.org/acm-prize" target="_blank">http://awards.acm.org/acm-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>