IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award
In 1989, the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award  to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field. In almost all cases, the award is given to one of the invited keynote speakers at the conference. The selection was made by the steering committee chairs, upon recommendation from the Program Chair and General Chair who have been responsible for the technical program of the conference, including inviting the speakers. It is presented immediately following the selected speaker's presentation at the conference, and he or she is given a plaque that specifies the nature of their special contribution to the field that is being recognized by IPDPS. In 2019, The management of the IEEE CS Babbage Award was transferred to the IEEE Computer Society's Awards Committee. Past recipients:
2023 - Keshav K Pingali. "For contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms." 2022 - Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda. "For contributions to high performance and scalable communication in parallel and high-end computing systems." 2021 - Guy Blelloch. "For contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms, and the interface between them." 2020 - Yves Robert. "For contributions to parallel algorithms and scheduling techniques." 2019 - Ian Foster. "For his outstanding contributions in the areas of parallel computing languages, algorithms, and technologies for scalable distributed applications." 2017 - Mateo Valero. "For contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building an incredibly productive European research environment." 2015 - Alan Edelman
2014 - Peter Kogge
2013 - James Demmel
2012 - Chris Johnson
2011 - Jack Dongarra
2010 - Burton Smith
2009 - Wen-Mei Hwu
2008 - Joel Saltz
2007 - Mike Flynn
2006 - Bill Dally
2005 - Yale N. Patt
2004 - Christos Papadimitriou
2003 - Michel Cosnard
2002 - Steve Wallach
2001 - Thomson Leighton
2000 - Michael O. Rabin
1999 - K. Mani Chandy
1998 - Jim Gray
1997 - Frances E. Allen
1995 - Richard Karp
1994 - Arvind
1993 - K. Mani Chandy
1992 - David Kuck
1991 - Harold S. Stone
1990 - H.T. Kung
1989 - Irving S. Reed

See also 
 List of computer science awards
 List of awards named after people

References

External links 
 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award

Awards established in 1989
Computer science awards
IEEE society and council awards