The Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer RADM Grace Hopper) has been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution at or before age 35. Recipients 1971 Donald Knuth 1972 Paul H. Dirksen 1972 Paul H. Cress 1973 Lawrence M. Breed 1973 Richard H. Lathwell 1973 Roger Moore 1974 George N. Baird 1975 Allan L. Scherr 1976 Edward H. Shortliffe 1977 no award 1978 Ray Kurzweil 1979 Steve Wozniak 1980 Robert M. Metcalfe 1981 Daniel S. Bricklin 1982 Brian K. Reid 1983 no award 1984 Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. 1985 Cordell Green 1986 William Nelson "Bill" Joy 1987 John Ousterhout 1988 Guy L. Steele Jr. 1989 W. Daniel Hillis 1990 Richard Stallman 1991 Feng-hsiung Hsu 1992 no award 1993 Bjarne Stroustrup 1994–1995 no award 1996 Shafrira Goldwasser 1997-1998 no award 1999 Wen-mei Hwu 2000 Lydia Kavraki 2001 George Necula 2002 Ramakrishnan Srikant 2003 Stephen W. Keckler 2004 Jennifer Rexford 2005 Omer Reingold 2006 Dan Klein 2007 Vern Paxson 2008 Dawson Engler 2009 Tim Roughgarden 2010 Craig Gentry 2011 Luis von Ahn 2012 Martin Casado and Dina Katabi 2013 Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb 2014 Sylvia Ratnasamy 2015 Brent Waters 2016 Jeffrey Heer 2017 Amanda Randles 2018 Constantinos Daskalakis and Michael J. Freedman 2019 Maria-Florina Balcan 2020 Shyamnath Gollakota 2021 Raluca Ada Popa See also List of computer-related awards List of computer science awards References External links The ACM homepage for the Grace Murray Hopper Award Association for Computing Machinery Computer science awards Computer-related awards Awards established in 1971