title: Roger Needham Award
text: # Roger Needham Award
  
  The Roger Needham award is a prize given scientists who are recognised for important contributions made to computer science research The British Computer Society established an annual Roger Needham Award in honour of Roger Needham in 2004. 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.
  
  ## Laureates
  
  Since 2004, laureates have included:
  
  * 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 Joel Ouaknine [Wikidata] on Timing is Everything
  * 2011 Maja Pantić on Machine Understanding of Human Behaviour
  * 2012 Dino Distefano [Wikidata] on Memory Safety Proofs for the Masses
  * 2013 Boris Motik [Wikidata] on Theory and Practice: The Yin and Yang of Intelligent Information Systems
  * 2014 Natasa Przulj [Wikidata] on Mining Biological Networks
  * 2015 Niloy Mitra [Wikidata] on Linking Form and Function, Computationally
  * 2016 Sharon Goldwater Language Learning in Humans and Machines: Making Connections to Make Progress
  * 2017 Alastair F. Donaldson [Wikidata] on Many-Core Programming: How to Go Really Fast Without Crashing
  * 2018 Alexandra Silva
  * 2019 Cristian Cadar [Wikidata]
  * 2020 Jade Alglave
  
  ## Awards committee
  
  As of 2020 the prize is judged by an awards committee with the following members:
  
  * Professor Anthony Cohn [Wikidata] FREng CEng, University of Leeds
  * Professor Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng, University of Manchester
  * Professor James H. Davenport, University of Bath
  * Julia Adamson, Director of Education, BCS
  * Professor Dame Muffy Calder OBE FRSE FREng, University of Glasgow
  * Dr. Martin Sadler OBE
  * Dr. Alastair F. Donaldson [Wikidata], Imperial College London
  * Professor Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool
  