About SIGPLAN awards

SIGPLAN

is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages.

Awards

Programming Languages Achievement Award:

• 2008: Barbara Liskov
• 2007: Niklaus Wirth
• 2006: Ron Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry K. Rosen, Mark Wegman, and Kenneth Zadeck
• 2005: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
• 2004: John Backus
• 2003: John C. Reynolds
• 2002: John McCarthy
• 2001: Robin Milner
• 2000: Susan Graham
• 1999: Ken Kennedy
• 1998: Fran Allen
• 1997: Guy Steele

SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award:

• 2003: Godmar Back
• 2002: Michael Hicks
• 2001: Rastislav Bodik

SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award:

• 2008: Michael Burke
• 2007: Linda M. Northrop
• 2006: Hans Boehm
• 2005: no award made
• 2004: Ron Cytron
• 2003: Mary Lou Soffa
• 2002: Andrew Appel
• 2001: Barbara Ryder
• 2000: David Wise
• 1999: Loren Meissner
• 1998: Brent Hailpern
• 1997: Jan Lee and Jean E. Sammet
• 1996: Dick Wexelblat and John Richards

Most Influential PLDI Paper Award:

• 2008 (for 1998): The implementation of the Cilk-5 multithreaded language, Matteo Frigo, Charles E. Leiserson, Keith H. Randall
• 2007 (for 1997): Exploiting hardware performance counters with flow and context sensitive profiling, Glenn Ammons, Thomas Ball, and James R. Larus
• 2006 (for 1996): TIL: A Type-Directed Optimizing Compiler for ML, David Tarditi, Greg Morrisett, Perry Cheng, Christopher Stone, Robert Harper, and Peter Lee
• 2005 (for 1995): Selective Specialization for Object-Oriented Languages, Jeffrey Dean, Craig Chambers, and David Grove
• 2004 (for 1994): ATOM: a system for building customized program analysis tools, Amitabh Srivastava and Alan Eustace
• 2003 (for 1993): Space Efficient Conservative Garbage Collection, Hans Boehm
• 2002 (for 1992): Lazy Code Motion, Jens Knoop, Oliver Rüthing, Bernhard Steffen
• 2001 (for 1991): A data locality optimizing algorithm, Michael E. Wolf and Monica S. Lam
• 2000 (for 1990): Profile guided code positioning, Karl Pettis and Robert C. Hansen

Most Influential POPL Paper Award

• 2006 (for 1996): Points-to Analysis in Almost Linear Time, Bjarne Steensgaard
• 2005 (for 1995): A Language with Distributed Scope, Luca Cardelli
• 2004 (for 1994): Implementation of the Typed Call-by-Value lambda-calculus using a Stack of Regions, Mads Tofte and Jean-Pierre Talpin
• 2003 (for 1993): Imperative functional programming, Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler