Iverson Award


The Iverson Award, more formally the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL, is presented by the Special Interest Group on APL of the Association for Computing Machinery. It is presented to a person who has made significant contributions to the APL programming language or to the APL community. These contributions may be Technical or Service. The award consists of a plaque and a certificate, and is accompanied by a cash prize and a lifetime membership in SIGAPL.
The award is named in honor of Kenneth E. Iverson, the creator of APL.
Recipients of the award by year: