Knuth Prize

The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.

Gary Miller presents Volker Strassen with the 2008 Knuth Prize at SODA 2009.

History

The Knuth Prize has been awarded since 1996 and includes an award of $5000. The prize is awarded by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. Prizes are awarded in alternation at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing and at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, which are among the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science.

In contrast with the Gödel Prize, which recognizes outstanding papers, the Knuth Prize is awarded to individuals for their overall impact in the field.

Winners

Since the prize was instituted in 1996, it has been awarded to:[1]

gollark: So just fit an explanation of the entire Riemann hypothesis in emojis into that, say?
gollark: Cool and good™ idea: encode millenium problems in this format.
gollark: I have to say, this does not look like an integer.
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gollark: Hmm, this is quite slow, initiating hacking into random IoT devices for more computing power.

See also

References
  1. "Knuth Prize". ACM SIGACT. July 12, 2019. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  2. "ACM Awards Knuth Prize to Pioneer for Advances in Algorithms and Complexity Theory". Association for Computing Machinery. September 15, 2014. Archived from the original on September 20, 2014.
  3. ACM Awards Knuth Prize to Pioneer of Algorithmic Game Theory, ACM, September 8, 2016
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