Year Winner Institution Area Contributions 1966 Alan Perlis Carnegie Mellon Programming Languages Algol 1967 Maurice Wilkes Cambridge Architecture EDSAC 1968 Richard Hamming Bell Labs Communications Hamming Codes 1969 Marvin Minsky MIT Artificial Intelligence 1970 J.H. Wilkinson NPL, England Numerical Analysis Wilkinson Method 1971 John McCarthy Stanford Artificial Intelligence LISP 1972 E.W. Dijkstra Eindhoven (TU) Operating Systems 1973 Charles Bachman GE/Honeywell Databases 1974 Donald E. Knuth Stanford Theory TEX 1975 Allen Newell Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence 1975 Herbert A. Simon Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence 1976 Michael O. Rabin Harvard/Hebrew U Theory 1976 Dana S. Scott Oxford Artificial Intelligence 1977 John Backus IBM Programming Languages FORTRAN/BNF 1978 Robert W. Floyd Stanford Theory 1979 Kenneth Iverson IBM Programming Languages APL 1980 C. Anthony Hoare Oxford Programming Languages 1981 Edgar F. Codd IBM Databases 1982 Stephen A. Cook Toronto Theory NP Completeness 1983 Ken Thompson Bell Labs Operating Systems UNIX 1983 Dennis Ritchie Bell Labs Operating Systems UNIX 1984 Niklaus Wirth ETH Zurich Programming Languages Pascal/Modula-2 1985 Richard M. Karp Berkeley Theory 1986 John Hopcroft Cornell Theory Analysis of Algorithms 1986 Robert Tarjan Princeton/Bell Labs Theory Analysis of Algorithms 1987 John Cocke IBM Architecture RISC 1988 Ivan Sutherland SUN Graphics 1989 William Kahan Berkeley Numerical Analysis 1990 Fernando Corbato MIT Operating Systems 1991 Robin Milner Edinburgh Artificial Intelligence 1992 Butler W. Lampson DEC Programming Languages Modula-3 1993 Juris Hartmanis Cornell Theory Computational Complexity 1993 Richard Stearns SUNY Albany Theory Computational Complexity 1994 Edward Feigenbaum Stanford Artificial Intelligence 1994 Raj Reddy Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence 1995 Manuel Blum Berkeley Theory Program Checking Some Statistics: Number of Awards per Institution: Bell Labs 4 Carnegie Mellon 4 IBM 4 Stanford 4 Berkeley 3 Cornell 2 MIT 2 Oxford 2 Cambridge 1 DEC 1 Edinburgh 1 Eindhoven (TU) 1 ETH (Zurich) 1 GE 1 Harvard 1 Hebrew U 1 Honeywell 1 NPL (England) 1 Princeton 1 SUN 1 SUNY Albany 1 Toronto 1 Number of Awards per Country: USA 30 UK 5 Canada 1 Israel 1 Netherlands 1 Switzerland 1 Number of Awards per Area: Theory 10 Artificial Intelligence 8 Programming Languages 6 Operating Systems 4 Architecture 2 Databases 2 Numerical Analysis 2 Communications 1 Graphics 1