Ousterhout received the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1987 for his work on Electronic design automation CAD systems for very-large-scale integrated circuits.Grace Murray Hopper Award citation , retrieved 2010-04-21. For the same work, he was inducted in 1994 as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.ACM Fellow citation, retrieved 2010-04-21. Ousterhout was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for improving our ability to program computers by raising the level of abstraction.
ousterhout received the grace murray hopper award in 1987 for his work on electronic design automation cad systems for very-large-scale integrated circuitsgrace murray hopper award citation  retrieved 2010-04-21 for the same work he was inducted in 1994 as a fellow of the association for computing machineryacm fellow citation retrieved 2010-04-21 ousterhout was elected a member of the national academy of engineering in 2001 for improving our ability to program computers by raising the level of abstraction