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Awards given to Cornell CS faculty members and researchers

IBM Faculty Partnership Award

These awards are presented each year to full-time profesors at accredited universities to recognize and foster innovative work in academic education and research.

  • 1990: John E. Hopcroft
  • 2000: Johannes Gehrke
  • 2002: Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
  • 2003: Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
  • 2005: Keshav K. Pingali

European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCA) Best Paper Award

These award is presented annually to the author of the best paper at the conference.

  • 2002: Ramin Zabih

Fulbright Scholar

Envisioned by Senator J. William Fulbright, and signed into law in 1946, the Fulbright program promotes "mutual understanding between people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world."

  • 2002: Joseph Y. Halpern

Guggenheim Fellow

These prestigious fellowships are given in all fields, and not only to academicians. Generally, they are for a year. Between 1 and 4 computer scientists have been receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship each year.

  • 1983: David Gries
  • 1991: Robert L. Constable
  • 1992: Dexter Kozen
  • 1997: Stephen A. Vavasis
  • 1999: Eva Tardos
  • 2002: Joseph Y. Halpern

Doctor of Humanities degree, Honoris Causa, University of Seattle

Honorary degree.

  • 1990: John E. Hopcroft

Honorary Doctoral Degree, Dr.h.c., University of Dortmund, Germany

Honorary degree.

  • 1995: Juris Hartmanis

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH

Honorary degree.

  • 1996: David Gries

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Honorary degree.

  • 1998: Juris Hartmanis

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Honorary degree.

  • 1998: David Gries

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)

Honorary degree.

  • 2003: Fred B. Schneider

Householder Prize

Given for the best Ph.D. thesis in numerical analysis.

    IBM Outstanding Innovation Award

    for work on reasoning about knowledge in 1987 and clock synchronization in 1988

    • 1987: Joseph Y. Halpern
    • 1988: Joseph Y. Halpern

    IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award

    Industry award for patent.

    • 1985: Joseph Y. Halpern

    Advisor of Tom Reps, ACM Best Dissertation Award

    Advisors of winners of Best Dissertation Award

    • 1984: Tim Teitelbaum

    Advisor of T.V. Raman, ACM Best Dissertation Award

    Advisors of winners of Best Dissertation Award

    • 1995: David Gries

    Advisor of Nir Friedman, whose PhD won the First Annual FoLLI Prize

    (for the Outstanding Dissertation in Language, Logic, and Computation)

    • 1998: Joseph Y. Halpern

    Best Research Paper at KDD-2003 (Ninth Annual SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Datamining)

    "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Newtork," with David Kempe and Eva Tardos, 2003.

    • 2003: Jon Kleinberg
    • 2003: Eva Tardos

    Best Paper Award 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)

    With S. Zdancewic, L. Zhang, and N. Nystrom

    • 2001: Andrew Myers

    Superior Accomplishment Award, U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory

    Dahlgern, Va.

    • 1961: David Gries

    ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award (with S. Owicki)

    With Susan Owicki

    • 1977: David Gries

    Best Paper Award at HLT-NAACL 2004

    "Catching the drift: Probabilistic content models, with applications to generation and summarization" with Regina Barzilay

    • 2004: Lillian Lee

    Honorary Doctoral Degree, New Jersey Institute of Technology

    Honorary degree.

    • 1999: Donald P. Greenberg

    Advisor of Daphne Koller, winner of MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

    • 2005: Joseph Y. Halpern

    M.I.T Press Publisher's Prize for best paper in IJCAI

    International Joint Conference on AI

    • 1989: Joseph Y. Halpern

    Publisher's Prize for best paper in IJCAI Conference

    International Joint Conference on AI

    • 1985: Joseph Y. Halpern

    Best Paper Award at ICML

    Internal Conference on Machine Learning

    • 2005: Thorsten Joachims

    Advisor of Daniela Rus, winner of MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

    • 2002: John E. Hopcroft

    Rolf Nevalinna Prize

    International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences

    • 2006: Jon Kleinberg

    Best Paper Award, 2007 SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

    With Jernej Barbic

    • 2007: Doug James

    Best Paper Award SOSP '07

    With Stephen Chong, Jed Liu, Xin Qi, K. Vikram, Lantian Zheng and Xin Zheng

    • 2007: Andrew Myers

    Best Paper Award, 16th International World Wide Web Conference

    With Lars Backstrom and Cynthia Dwork

    • 2007: Jon Kleinberg

    SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award

    To recognize the most influential operating systems papers that have appeared in the peer-reviewed literature at least ten years in the past.

    • 2007: Fred B. Schneider

    Best Student Paper Award, KDD 2005

    With Filip Radlinski

    • 2005: Thorsten Joachims

    Popular Science's Annual Brilliant Ten

    Annual list of the most impressive young scientists in the U.S

    • 2007: E. Gun Sirer

    Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Award

    The New Faculty Fellowship Program identifies, recognizes, and supports exceptional new faculty members engaged in innovative computing research

    • 2008: Robert Kleinberg

    Smithsonian Magazine's America's Young Innovator's Award

    37 people under the age of 36 who are helping to shape the world. Those honored are scholars, singers, writers, scientists, musicians, painters, activists—and more than one public-spirited computer maven

    • 2007: Jon Kleinberg

    Honorary Doctoral Degree, The University of Sydney

    For research contributions to theoretical computer science and work to improve science and technology education in developing countries

    • 2008: John E. Hopcroft
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