Career Achievement

• ACM Infosys Foundation Award
• ACM SIGGRAPH Steven Coons Award
• ACM Turing Award
• ACM/AAAI Newell Award
• Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence
• ASIS Award of Merit
• Bolzano Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
• Dantzig Prize
• Grand Medal of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (Lielo Medalu)
• IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
• IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
• IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award
• IEEE Von Neumann Medal
• Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
• SIGIR Gerard Salton Award
• Van Wijngaarden Award
• Honorary Degrees
  • Doctor of Humanities degree, Honoris Causa, University of Seattle
  • Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH
  • Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
  • Honorary Degree, Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
  • Honorary Doctoral Degree, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Honorary Doctoral Degree, Dr.h.c., University of Dortmund, Germany
  • Honorary Doctoral Degree, The University of Sydney

Fellows / Members

• ACM Fellow
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
• AMS Fellow
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow
• Fields Institute Fellow
• IEEE Fellow
• INFORMS Fellow
• National Academy of Engineering Member
• National Academy of Sciences Member
• Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi (NTVA) Member
• Radcliffe Institute Fellow
• Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) Fellow

Fellowships

• Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Engineering, Hebrew University
• Fulbright Scholar
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• MacArthur Fellows Award
• Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Award
• Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
• Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
• Simons Investigator
• Sloan Research Fellowship

Early Career

• AFOSR Young Investigator Award
• Black Engineer of the Year, Modern Day Technology Leader
• Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists
• Cornell Institute for Social Sciences ISS Faculty Fellow
• Cornell Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship
• Fraunhofer-Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation
• Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program
• Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize
• National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research
• NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
• ONR Young Investigator Award

From Industry

• Google Research Award
• IBM Faculty Development Award
• IBM Faculty Partnership Award
• IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award
• IBM Outstanding Innovation Award
• NEC Labs Data Management University Award
• Nominated for the General Ronald Yates Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (AFRL/RL)
• NYSTAR Faculty Development Award
• Special Recognition Award, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
• Superior Accomplishment Award, U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory
• Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Award

Best Papers

 

• Most Influential Papers
  • ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award (with S. Owicki)
  • Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
  • Fulkerson Prize
  • Glover-Klingman Prize
  • Godel Prize
  • Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision
  • LICS Test of Time Award
  • Most Influential Paper, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Most Influential Paper, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Most Influential Paper, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • Most Influential Paper, Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
  • Most Influential Paper, Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS)
• Best Conference Papers
• Best Student Conference Papers
• Dissertation Awards
• Lanchester Prize
• PROSE Award

Chairs / Committees

• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chair
• CRA-W Distinguished Professor
• Elected to the Executive Council of the AAAI
• Member, Advisory Committee, International Scientists, for the Research Council President of the European Union

Magazines and Newspapers

• Discover's 50 Most Important, Influential and Promising People in Science
• Popular Science's Annual Brilliant Ten
• Smithsonian Magazine's America's Young Innovator's Award

International Cooperation

• Einstein Professor Chinese Academy of Science
• Honorary Professorship, Beijing Institute of Technology
• Humboldt Research Award
• Senior Distinguished Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

Other Research Awards

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
• ASCA Creative Research Award in Architecture
• Burroughs-Wellcome Fund from the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology
• Finalist, DARPA Urban Challenge, Team Cornell Co Leader
• IEEE Technical Achievement Award
• IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Outstanding Achievment Award
• Invited to join the Center for Analytic Economics, Cornell
• National Computer Graphics Association Academic Award

 

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Technical Achievement Award

• 2004: Steve Marschner
• 2013: Doug James

ACM Fellow

Established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. More info...

• 1993: John E. Hopcroft
• 1993: Juris Hartmanis
• 1993: David Gries
• 1994: Gerard Salton
• 1994: Robert L. Constable
• 1994: Fred B. Schneider
• 1997: Eva Tardos
• 1998: Kenneth P. Birman
• 2001: David B. Shmoys
• 2002: Joseph Y. Halpern
• 2002: Bart Selman
• 2002: David B. Shmoys
• 2003: Dexter Kozen
• 2007: Daniel P. Huttenlocher
• 2010: Robbert van Renesse
• 2012: Bart Selman
• 2012: Ramin Zabih

ACM Infosys Foundation Award

Recognizes personal contributions by young scientists and system developers to a contemporary innovation that, through its depth, fundamental impact and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline. More info...

• 2009: Jon Kleinberg

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

With Susan Owicki

• 1977: David Gries

ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award

More info

• 2011: Joseph Y. Halpern

ACM SIGGRAPH Steven Coons Award

The Steven A. Coons award is given in odd-numbered years to an individual to honor that person's lifetime contribution to computer graphics and interactive techniques. More info...

• 1988: Donald P. Greenberg

ACM Turing Award

The ACM Turing Award is the computer science equivalent of the Nobel Prize, given for outstanding, original research with an impact. More info...

• 1986: John E. Hopcroft
• 1993: Juris Hartmanis

ACM/AAAI Newell Award

The Newell Award recognizes career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. More info...

• 2009: Joseph Y. Halpern

AFOSR Young Investigator Award

Air Force Office of Scientific Research YIP supports scientists and engineers who have received a Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years, and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research.

• 2010: Rafael Pass

Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence

The Newell Medals were created in honor of the late Allen Newell, who helped to co-found the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology with the late Herbert Simon. More info...

• 2001: J. Gregory Morrisett

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow

An international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders.

• 1987: John E. Hopcroft
• 1992: Juris Hartmanis
• 2001: Eva Tardos

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

To recognize research in the interaction of science, technology and government in the United States and around the world.

• 1981: Juris Hartmanis
• 1987: John E. Hopcroft
• 1990: David Gries
• 1995: Fred B. Schneider
• 2002: Donald P. Greenberg
• 2003: Bart Selman
• 2005: Joseph Y. Halpern
• 2006: Jon Kleinberg
• 2008: Dexter Kozen

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chair

• 2009: Bart Selman

American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering

To recognize a demonstrable record of individual achievement in research, development, education, manufacturing, public service, technological leadership and/or clinical practice as they relate to medical and biological engineering.

• 1992: Donald P. Greenberg

AMS Fellow

The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

• 2012: Juris Hartmanis
• 2012: Eva Tardos

ASCA Creative Research Award in Architecture

• 1997: Donald P. Greenberg

ASIS Award of Merit

The American Society of Information Science and Technology's highest honor, bestowed annually to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to the field of information science. More info...

• 1989: Gerard Salton

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow

To recognize individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions---usually over at least a ten-year period---to the field of artificial intelligence.

• 1993: Joseph Y. Halpern
• 2001: Bart Selman
• 2007: Carla Gomes

Best Conference Papers

These awards are presented to the authors of the best paper at the specified conference.

Best Student Conference Papers

These awards are presented to the authors of the best student paper at the specified conference.

Black Engineer of the Year, Modern Day Technology Leader

• 2009: Hakim Weatherspoon

Black Engineer of the Year, Modern Day Technology Leader

• 2009: Hakim Weatherspoon

Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists

The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists acknowledge and celebrate the excellence of our most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

• 2011: Johannes Gehrke

Bolzano Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Bolzano Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for Merit in the Field of Mathematical Sciences

• 1995: Juris Hartmanis

Burroughs-Wellcome Fund from the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology

Award given to support the continued expansion of the applications of mathematics, including statistics and computer science, to molecular biology. More info...

• 2000: Golan Yona

Cornell Institute for Social Sciences ISS Faculty Fellow

In-residence program is to nurture the careers of Cornell University's most promising assistant and associate faculty members in the social sciences.

• 2008: Lillian Lee

Cornell Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship

Given to recognize distinguished research by outstanding tenured faculty early in their career.

• 2004: Johannes Gehrke
• 2007: Lillian Lee
• 2010: Andrew Myers

CRA-W Distinguished Professor

Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research

• 2010: Claire Cardie

Dantzig Prize

The prize is awarded for original research, which by its originality, breadth and scope, is having a major impact on the field of mathematical programming. More info...

• 2006: Eva Tardos

Discover's 50 Most Important, Influential and Promising People in Science

• 2008: Jon Kleinberg

Dissertation Awards

Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

The prize is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing have been evident for at least a decade. More info...

• 2009: Joseph Y. Halpern

Einstein Professor Chinese Academy of Science

The Einstein Professorship Program is a key initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Einstein Professorships will be awarded each year to 20 distinguished international scientists actively working at the frontiers of science and technology, for conducting lecture-tours to China. More info...

• 2010: John E. Hopcroft

Elected to the Executive Council of the AAAI

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

• 1999: Bart Selman
• 2001: Carla Gomes
• 2008: Claire Cardie

Fields Institute Fellow

• 2011: Eva Tardos

Finalist, DARPA Urban Challenge, Team Cornell Co Leader

• 2007: Daniel P. Huttenlocher

Fraunhofer-Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation

Awarded to individuals who are internationally recognised for their achievements in the field of applied research, and who in future are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements which will have a seminal influence on their discipline beyond their immediate field of work. More info...

• 2009: Thorsten Joachims

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Natural Sciences and Engineering, Hebrew University

• 2009: Joseph Y. Halpern

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." More info...

• 2002: Joseph Y. Halpern

Fulkerson Prize

This award is given jointly by the AMS and the Math Program Society. It is given triannually, for a single paper published in the previous six years in discrete mathematics. More info...

• 1988: Eva Tardos

Glover-Klingman Prize

The Glover-Klingman Prize is awarded each year to an individual or a group for the best paper published in Networks.

• 2010: Eva Tardos

Godel Prize

The ACM/EATCS Godel Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding paper (or collection of papers) in the area of theoretical computer science that appeared in a journal during the previous six years. More info...

• 1997: Joseph Y. Halpern
• 2012: Eva Tardos

Google Research Award

The intent of the awards is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly).

• 2009: Christoph Koch
• 2012: Ashutosh Saxena

Grand Medal of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (Lielo Medalu)

The highest award given by the Academy to scientists of Latvia and of foreign countries for their outstanding creative contribution.

• 2001: Juris Hartmanis

Guggenheim Fellowship

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. More info...

• 1983: David Gries
• 1991: Robert L. Constable
• 1992: Dexter Kozen
• 1997: Stephen A. Vavasis
• 1999: Eva Tardos
• 2002: Joseph Y. Halpern
• 2011: Doug James

Honorary Professorship, Beijing Institute of Technology

• 2008: John E. Hopcroft

Humboldt Research Award

For outstanding academics at the peak of their careers. Award winners are invited to spend a period of six to twelve months on academic collaboration with specialist colleagues in Germany.

• 2010: Johannes Gehrke

IBM Faculty Development Award

The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and service organizations; and promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.

• 1985: Fred B. Schneider
• 2000: Johannes Gehrke
• 2005: Keshav K. Pingali
• 2009: Hakim Weatherspoon

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

IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award

Industry award for patent.

• 1985: Joseph Y. Halpern

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
• 2002: Jon Kleinberg

IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award

For outstanding contributions in the field of information processing, in relation to computer science.

• 2011: Fred B. Schneider
• 2012: Fred B. Schneider

IEEE Fellow

Conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. More info...

• 1987: John E. Hopcroft
• 2009: Fred B. Schneider
• 2012: Joseph Y. Halpern
• 2012: Ramin Zabih

IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award

Awarded by the Computer Society on the basis of achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution. More info...

• 2005: John E. Hopcroft

IEEE Technical Achievement Award

For outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past ten, and not more than fifteen years.

• 2011: Johannes Gehrke

IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Outstanding Achievment Award

More info...

• 2009: Kenneth P. Birman

IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award

The Kanai Award recognizes major contributions to the state-of-the art distributed computing systems and their applications. More info...

• 2010: Kenneth P. Birman

IEEE Von Neumann Medal

For outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology. The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or entrepreneurial, and need not have been made immediately prior to the date of the award. More info...

• 2010: John E. Hopcroft

INFORMS Fellow

INFORMS fellows are examples of outstanding lifetime achievement in operations research and the management sciences. More information...

• 2004: Eva Tardos

Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program

The Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program (ECFHP) was created to help Intel connect with the best and brightest early areer faculty members at the top universities around the world.

• 2012: Hakim Weatherspoon

Invited to join the Center for Analytic Economics, Cornell

• 2007: Joseph Y. Halpern

Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize

The Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize will be awarded annually to an individual recognized as an emerging research leader.

• 2009: Jon Kleinberg

Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision

The Koenderink Prize is awarded each year at the ECCV, one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of computer vision worldwide, for papers published at ECCV ten years ago which have withstood the test of time.

• 2012: Ramin Zabih

Lanchester Prize

The Lanchester Prize is awarded annually for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English.

• 2012: Jon Kleinberg

LICS Test of Time Award

• 2011: Dexter Kozen

MacArthur Fellows Award

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. More info...

• 2005: Jon Kleinberg

Member, Advisory Committee, International Scientists, for the Research Council President of the European Union

• 2000: Carla Gomes

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
• 2009: Rafael Pass

Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship

• 2011: Noah Snavely
• 2012: Ashutosh Saxena

Most Influential Paper, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

The award is given to a paper from ten years ago that has made "fundamental contributions to computer vision that have withstood the test of time."

• 2010: Daniel P. Huttenlocher

Most Influential Paper, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

• 2011: Ramin Zabih

Most Influential Paper, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

• 2009: Thorsten Joachims

Most Influential Paper, Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)

Presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the POPL held 10 years prior to the award year. More info...

• 2009: Andrew Myers

Most Influential Paper, Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS)

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

• 2007: Fred B. Schneider

National Academy of Engineering Member

To honor extraordinary contributions to engineering and society.

• 1989: John E. Hopcroft
• 1989: Juris Hartmanis
• 1991: Donald P. Greenberg
• 2007: Eva Tardos
• 2008: Jon Kleinberg
• 2011: Fred B. Schneider

National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research

Awarded to recognize innovative young scientists and to encourage research likely to lead toward new capabilities for human benefit. More info...

• 2001: Jon Kleinberg

National Academy of Sciences Member

Award to recognize outstanding achievements in science.

• 2001: Jon Kleinberg
• 2009: John E. Hopcroft
• 2011: Jon Kleinberg

National Computer Graphics Association Academic Award

• 1989: Donald P. Greenberg

NEC Labs Data Management University Award

More info

• 2010: Johannes Gehrke

Nominated for the General Ronald Yates Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (AFRL/RL)

• 1996: Carla Gomes

Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi (NTVA) Member

Norway's equivalent to the National Academy of Engineering. NTVA has 500 members, of which only 26 are foreign members.

• 2010: Fred B. Schneider

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award

Awarded to support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. More info...

• 1996: Claire Cardie
• 1997: Jon Kleinberg
• 1998: Bart Selman
• 1999: J. Gregory Morrisett
• 2001: Jon Kleinberg
• 2002: Johannes Gehrke
• 2002: Bart Selman
• 2002: Andrew Myers
• 2002: Golan Yona
• 2003: Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
• 2003: Thorsten Joachims
• 2003: Phoebe Sengers
• 2004: Doug James
• 2004: Rich Caruana
• 2004: Steve Marschner
• 2007: Kavita Bala
• 2007: Uri Keich
• 2007: Robert Kleinberg
• 2008: Rafael Pass
• 2011: Hakim Weatherspoon
• 2012: Noah Snavely

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

Prestigious Research-Fund Awards to Young Faculty.

• 1987: David B. Shmoys
• 1989: Keshav K. Pingali
• 1990: Daniel P. Huttenlocher
• 1990: Stephen A. Vavasis
• 1991: Eva Tardos
• 1994: Bruce Donald
• 1994: David B. Shmoys
• 1996: Nick Trefethen

NYSTAR Faculty Development Award

These awards through the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation Faculty Development Program assist universities in the retention of leading research faculty in science and technology fields with strong commercial potential

• 2007: Johannes Gehrke

ONR Young Investigator Award

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) YIP Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees within the last five years and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research.

• 1999: Jon Kleinberg

Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering allow the nation's most promising young professors to pursue their science and engineering research. More info...

• 1995: Eva Tardos
• 1999: Jon Kleinberg
• 2007: Adam Siepel

Popular Science's Annual Brilliant Ten

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

• 2005: Doug James
• 2007: E. Gun Sirer

PROSE Award

• 2011: Jon Kleinberg

Radcliffe Institute Fellow

• 2011: Carla Gomes

Rolf Nevanlinna Prize

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

• 2006: Jon Kleinberg

Senior Distinguished Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

An award established by the Federal Republic of Germany for the promotion of international research cooperation.

• 1988: Gerard Salton
• 1994: Juris Hartmanis

SIGIR Gerard Salton Award

This award honors those who have made "... significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval". More info...

• 1983: Gerard Salton

Simons Investigator

The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions.

• 2012: Jon Kleinberg

Sloan Research Fellowship

Designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Chosen by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. More info...

• 1991: Eva Tardos
• 1997: Jon Kleinberg
• 1998: J. Gregory Morrisett
• 1999: Bart Selman
• 2002: Lillian Lee
• 2002: Andrew Myers
• 2003: Johannes Gehrke
• 2006: Doug James
• 2006: Steve Marschner
• 2008: Robert Kleinberg
• 2010: David Bindel
• 2011: Rafael Pass
• 2011: Hakim Weatherspoon
• 2011: Ashutosh Saxena
• 2012: Noah Snavely
• 2012: Nate Foster

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

Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) Fellow

Program to recognize certain members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields SIAM serves

• 2009: Charles Van Loan
• 2009: Eva Tardos
• 2009: John E. Hopcroft

Special Recognition Award, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

Recognized for her ground-breaking research in integrating AI and operations research techniques

• 1999: Carla Gomes

Superior Accomplishment Award, U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory

Dahlgern, Va.

• 1961: David Gries

Van Wijngaarden Award

Awarded every 5 years for exceptional contribution to mathematics and computer science.

• 2011: Eva Tardos

Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Award

The Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest.

• 2011: Lillian Lee
• 2011: Jon Kleinberg
• 2011: Johannes Gehrke