In 1989, the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field. In almost all cases, the award is given to one of the invited keynote speakers at the conference. The selection was made by the steering committee chairs, upon recommendation from the Program Chair and General Chair who have been responsible for the technical program of the conference, including inviting the speakers. It is presented immediately following the selected speaker's presentation at the conference, and he or she is given a plaque that specifies the nature of their special contribution to the field that is being recognized by IPDPS. In 2019, the management of the IEEE CS Babbage Award was transferred to the IEEE Computer Society's Awards Committee. Past recipients:
1989 - Irving S. Reed 1990 - H.T. Kung 1991 - Harold S. Stone 1992 - David Kuck 1993 - K. Mani Chandy 1994 - Arvind 1995 - Richard Karp 1997 - Frances E. Allen 1998 - Jim Gray 1999 - K. Mani Chandy 2000 - Michael O. Rabin 2001 - Thomson Leighton 2002 - Steve Wallach 2003 - Michel Cosnard 2004 - Christos Papadimitriou 2005 - Yale N. Patt 2006 - Bill Dally 2007 - Mike Flynn 2008 - Joel Saltz 2009 - Wen-Mei Hwu 2010 - Burton Smith 2011 - Jack Dongarra 2012 - Chris Johnson 2013 - James Demmel 2014 - Peter Kogge 2015 - Alan Edelman 2017 - Mateo Valero. "For contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building an incredibly productive European research environment." 2019 - Ian Foster. "For his outstanding contributions in the areas of parallel computing languages, algorithms, and technologies for scalable distributed applications." 2020 - Yves Robert. "For contributions to parallel algorithms and scheduling techniques." 2021 - Guy Blelloch. "For contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms, and the interface between them." 2022 - Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda. "For contributions to high performance and scalable communication in parallel and high-end computing systems." 2023 - Keshav K Pingali. "For contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms." 2024 - Franck Cappello. "For pioneering contributions and inspiring leadership in distributed computing, high-performance computing, resilience, and data reduction." 2025 - Srinivas Aluru. "For pioneering contributions to the field of Parallel Computational Biology." 2026 - Uzi Vishkin. "For seminal contributions to the theory of PRAM computing, and for inventing numerous work-efficient parallel algorithms."
See also List of computer science awards List of awards named after people
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External links IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award