Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award
Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Awards
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The Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award is an annual prize given to individuals who, in the opinion of the editors of Dr. Dobb's, "have made significant contributions to the advancement of software development." The prizes were awarded annually from 1995 to 2009. The Excellence in Programming Award includes a $1,000 prize that is donated in the award winner's name to a charity of the winner's choice.
Recipients
2011
No award.
2010
No award.
2009
Scott Meyers, author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, and Effective STL.[1]
2008
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language.[2]
2007
Grady Booch, for contributions to object-oriented programming, software architecture, and modeling.[3]
2006
Bruce Schneier, contributions to cryptography and computer security.[4]
2005
Guy L. Steele, Jr., for a lifetime of contributions to programming languages, tools, and operating systems.[5]
2004
P.J. Plauger, author, substantive contributor to C and C++ standards.[6]
2003
Don Chamberlin, database pioneer, creator of SQL.[7]
2002
Adele Goldberg, contributor to the Smalltalk language, author, founding CEO of ParcPlace Systems.[8] Dan Ingalls, principal architect of Smalltalk virtual machines and kernel systems.[9]
2001
Anders Hejlsberg, compiler writer, author of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and C#.[10]
2000
Jon Bentley, researcher and author of Programming Pearls and More Programming Pearls.[11]
1999
Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.[12] Donald Becker, chief investigator of the Beowulf Project, which achieved supercomputer performance using networks of inexpensive Linux-based PCs.[13]
1998
The “Gang of Four” – Richard Helm, Erich Gamma, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides – authors of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.[14]
1997
Ron Rivest, cryptographer, co-creator of the RSA standard.[15] Gary Kildall, pioneering author of the CP/M operating system.[16]
1996
Larry Wall, author of the Perl programming language.[17] James Gosling, chief architect of Java.[18]
1995
Alexander Stepanov, creator of the C++ Standard Template Library.[19] Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system.[20]
References
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's 2009 Excellence in Programming Award". March 15, 2009.
- ^ Swaine, Michael. "Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award 2008". March 7, 2008.
- ^ Swaine, Michael. "Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award". March 9, 2007.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "2006 Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award". April 1, 2006.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "2005 Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award". April 1, 2005.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award". April 1, 2004.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "2003 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award". April 1, 2003.
- ^ Unsigned. "2002 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Awards". May 1, 2002.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award". May 1, 2001.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award". April 1, 2000.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's Journal 1999 Excellence in Programming Awards". June 1, 1999.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's Journal's 1998 Excellence in Programming Awards". March 1, 1998.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Excellence in Programming Awards". May 1, 1997.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Awards". March 1, 1996.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Erickson, Jonathan. "Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Awards". March 1, 1995.
- ^ Ibid.