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The group awards the prize every two years to an early-career scientist with "outstanding research contributions in the field of algorithms research and development for parallel scientific and engineering computing."

The Salomaa Prize is named after Arto Salomaa, a Finnish mathematician and computer scientist who was one of the founding fathers of automata theory – the study of abstract, self-propelled computing machines and the problems they can solve – and a co-founder of the Developments in Language Theory (DLT) conference.