ACM Software System Award


The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery since 1983, with a cash prize sponsored by IBM of currently $35,000.

Recipients

The following is a list of recipients of the ACM Software System Award:
YearProjectRecipients
2019DNSPaul Mockapetris
2018WiresharkGerald C. Combs
2017Project JupyterFernando Pérez, Brian E. Granger, Min Ragan-Kelley, Paul Ivanov, Thomas Kluyver, Jason Grout, Matthias Bussonnier, Damián Avila, Steven Silvester, Jonathan Frederic, Kyle Kelley, Jessica Hamrick, Carol Willing, Sylvain Corlay, Peter Parente
2016Andrew File SystemJohn H. Howard, Michael L. Kazar, David A. Nichols, Sherri Nichols, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Robert N. Sidebotham, Alfred Spector, Michael West
2015GCCRichard Stallman
2014MachRick Rashid, Avie Tevanian
2013CoqThierry Coquand, Gérard Pierre Huet, Christine Paulin-Mohring, Bruno Barras, Jean-Christophe Filliâtre, Hugo Herbelin, Chetan Murthy, Yves Bertot and Pierre Castéran
2012LLVMVikram S. Adve, Evan Cheng and Chris Lattner
2011EclipseJohn Wiegand, Dave Thomson, Gregory Adams, Philippe Mulet, Julian Jones, John Duimovich, Kevin Haaland, Stephen Northover, and Erich Gamma
2010GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender SystemsPeter Bergstrom, Lee R. Gordon, Jonathan L. Herlocker, Neophytos Iacovou, Joseph A. Konstan, Shyong K. Lam, David Maltz, Sean M. McNee, Bradley N. Miller, Paul J. Resnick, John T. Riedl, Mitesh Suchak
2009VMware Workstation for Linux 1.0Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum, Jeremy Sugerman, Edward Y. Wang
2008Gamma Parallel Database SystemDavid DeWitt, Robert Gerber, Murali Krishna, Donovan Schneider, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Goetz Graefe, Michael Heytens, Hui-I Hsiao, Jeffrey Naughton, Anoop Sharma
2007StatemateDavid Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Mark Trakhtenbrot, Aron Trauring
2006EiffelBertrand Meyer
2005The Boyer-Moore Theorem ProverRobert S. Boyer, Matt Kaufmann, J Strother Moore
2004Secure Network ProgrammingRaghuram Bindignavle, Simon S. Lam, Shaowen Su, Thomas Y. C. Woo
2003makeStuart Feldman
2002JavaJames Gosling
2001SPIN model checkerGerard Holzmann
1999The Apache GroupBrian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau, Andrew Wilson
1998SJohn Chambers
1997Tcl/TkJohn Ousterhout
1996NCSA MosaicMarc Andreessen, Eric Bina
1995World Wide WebTim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau
1994Remote Procedure CallAndrew Birrell, Bruce Nelson
1993SketchpadIvan Sutherland
1992InterlispDaniel Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren Teitelman
1991TCP/IPVinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn
1990NLSDouglas C. Engelbart, William English, Jeff Rulifson
1989PostScriptDouglas K. Brotz, Charles M. Geschke, William H. Paxton, Edward A. Taft, John E. Warnock
1988INGRESGerald Held, Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong
1988System RDonald Chamberlin, Jim Gray, Raymond Lorie, Gianfranco Putzolu, Patricia Selinger, Irving Traiger
1987SmalltalkAdele Goldberg, Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Alan C. Kay
1986TeXDonald E. Knuth
1985VisiCalcDan Bricklin, Bob Frankston
1984Xerox AltoButler W. Lampson, Robert Taylor, Charles P. Thacker
1983UNIXDennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson