Roger Needham Award

The British Computer Society, in 2004, established an annual Roger Needham Award in honour of Roger Needham.[1] It is a £5000 prize is presented to an individual for making "a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK-based researcher within ten years of their PhD." The award is funded by Microsoft Research. The winner of the prize has an opportunity to give a public lecture. A list of previous recipients follows.[2]

  • 2004 Jane Hillston on Tuning Systems: From Composition to Performance
  • 2005 Ian Horrocks on Ontologies and the Semantic Web
  • 2006 Andrew Fitzgibbon on Computer Vision & the Geometry of Nature
  • 2007 Mark Handley on Evolving the Internet: Challenges, Opportunities and Consequences
  • 2008 Wenfei Fan on A Revival of Data Dependencies for Improving Data Quality
  • 2009 Byron Cook on Proving that programs eventually do something good
  • 2010 Joël Ouaknine on Timing is Everything[3]
  • 2011 Maja Pantić on Machine Understanding of Human Behaviour
  • 2012 Dino Distefano on Memory Safety Proofs for the Masses
  • 2013 Boris Motik on Theory and Practice: The Yin and Yang of Intelligent Information Systems
  • 2014 Natasa Przulj on Mining Biological Networks
  • 2015 Niloy Mitra on Linking Form and Function, Computationally
  • 2016 Sharon Goldwater on Language Learning in Humans and Machines: Making Connections to Make Progress
  • 2017 Alastair Donaldson on Many-Core Programming: How to Go Really Fast Without Crashing
  • 2018 Alexandra Silva[4]

References

  1. ↑ Roger Needham Lecture at the British Computer Society website
  2. ↑ Roger Needham Award at BCS website
  3. ↑ "News releases - Press Office - Policy and media - BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT". www.bcs.org.
  4. ↑ UCL. "Computer Science News: Alexandra Silva Receives BCS Roger Needham Award 2018". Retrieved 2018-08-30.
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