Awarded on the basis of value and degree of services to the Programming Languages Community.
The award recognizes contributions to ACM SIGPLAN, its conferences, publications, or its local activities.
The award includes a prize of $2,500.
Recipients:2007:
Linda Northrop
2006:
Hans Boehm
2005: No award given
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 Sammet
1996: Dick Wexelblat and John Richards
Selection Committee
The chair of the selection committee is a member of the
EC appointed by the SIGPLAN chair. Other committee members are selected by the
chair of the selection committee with approval of the SIGPLAN chair. The SIGPLAN Chair is an ex officio member of the
committee and shall adjudicate conflicts of interest, appointing substitutes to
the committee as necessary. Nominations
Nominations can be submitted at any time to the
secretary of SIGPLAN. Nominations
submitted by January 5th will be considered for that year's award. A nomination for the distinguished
service award that is not awarded will remain for 3 years.
Each nomination should consist of the following items:
- Name, address, phone number, and email address of the person making the nomination (the nominator).
- Name, address, phone number, and email address of the candidate for whom an award is recommended (the nominee).
- A short statement (200-500 words) explaining why the nominee deserves the award in question.
- Names and email addresses of 5-10 people who the nominator believes will support the nomination.
- The awards committee will ask some of these people for their opinions.
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