Awarded to an institution or individual(s) recognized for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both. The Software System Award carries a prize of $10,000. Financial support for the Software System Award is provided by IBM.



2004 Winner: Secure Network Programming
Raghuram Bindignavle
Simon S. Lam
Shaowen Su
Thomas Y. C. Woo

Award Recipients

1983 UNIX Ken Thompson Dennis M. Ritchie 1984 Xerox Alto Systems Butler W. Lampson Robert W. Taylor Charles P. Thacker 1985 VisiCalc Daniel Bricklin Robert Frankston 1986 TeX Donald E. Knuth 1987 SMALLTALK Alan C. Kay Daniel H.H. Ingalls, Jr. Adele Goldberg 1988 System R Donald Chamberlin James Gray Raymond Lorie Gianfranco Putzolu Patricia Selinger Irving Traiger INGRES Gerald Held Michael Stonebraker Eugene Wong 1989 PostScript John E. Warnock Charles M. Geschke William H. Paxton Douglas K. Brotz Edward A. Taft 1990 NLS Douglas C. Engelbart William K. English Jeff Rulifson

1991 TCP/IP Vinton G. Cerf Robert E. Kahn 1992 Interlisp Daniel G. Bobrow Richard R. Burton L. Peter Deutsch Ronald M. Kaplan Larry Masinter Warren Teitelman 1993 Sketchpad Ivan Sutherland 1994 Remote Procedure Call Andrew Birrell Bruce Nelson 1995 World-Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau NCSA Mosaic Marc Andreessen Eric Bina 1996 No Award Given 1997 Tcl/Tk John Ousterhout 1998 The S System John M. Chambers 1999 The Apache Group Co-founders: Brian Behlendorf Roy T. Fielding Rob Hartill David Robinson Cliff Skolnick Randy Terbush Robert S. Thau Andrew Wilson

2000 No Award Given 2001 SPIN Gerard Holzmann 2002 Java James A. Gosling 2003 MAKE Stuart Feldman