EATCS Award

EATCS annually honors a respected scientist from our community with the prestigious EATCS Distinguished Achievements Award. The award is given to acknowledge extensive and widely recognized contributions to theoretical computer science over a life long scientific career.

For the EATCS Award 2024, candidates may be nominated to the Awards Committee consisting of Thomas Henzinger (chair), Valerie King and Amos Fiat.

Nominations will be kept strictly confidential. They should include supporting justification and be sent by e-mail to the chair of the EATCS Award Committee:


	Thomas Henzinger Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

by March 15, 2024.

Call for nominations: EATCS Award 2024.

The Award will be assigned during a ceremony that will take place during ICALP 2024.

A brief history of the EATCS Award follows below.

2024 / Samson Abramsky

Place: ICALP (Tallinn)

Committee: Thomas Henzinger (chair), Valerie King and Amos Fiat

2023 / Amos Fiat

Place: ICALP (Paderborn)

Committee: Johan Håstad (chair), Thomas Henzinger and Valerie King

2022 / Patrick Cousot

Place: ICALP (Paris)

Committee: Éva Tardos (chair), Johan Håstad and Thomas Henzinger

2021 / Toniann (Toni) Pitassi

Place: ICALP (Glasgow)

Committee: Johan Håstad, Marta Kwiatkowska (chair) and Éva Tardos

2020 / Mihalis Yannakakis

Place: ICALP (Saarbrücken)

Committee: Artur Czumaj (chair), Marta Kwiatkowska and Éva Tardos

2019 / Thomas Henzinger

Place: ICALP (Patras)

Committee: Artur Czumaj, Marta Kwiatkowska and Christos Papadimitriou (chair)

2018 / Noam Nisan

Place: ICALP (Prague)

Committee: Artur Czumaj, Christos Papadimitriou and Jean-Eric Pin (chair)

2017 / Éva Tardos

Place: ICALP (Warsaw )

Committee: Fedor Fomin (chair), Christos Papadimitriou and Jean-Eric Pin

2016 / Dexter Kozen

Place: ICALP (Rome)

Committee: Fedor Fomin, Kim G. Larsen (chair) and Jean-Eric Pin

2015 / Christos Papadimitriou

Place: ICALP (Kyoto)

Committee: Fedor Fomin, Kim G. Larsen and Vladimiro Sassone (chair)

2014 / Gordon Plotkin

Place: ICALP (Copenhagen)

Committee: Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Vladimiro Sassone and Leslie Ann Goldberg (chair)

2013 / Martin Dyer

Place: ICALP (Riga)

Committee: Leslie Ann Goldberg, Vladimiro Sassone and Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (chair)

Photos from ICALP 2013

2012 / Moshe Y. Vardi

Place: ICALP (Wawrwick)

Committee: Leslie Ann Goldberg, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Eugenio Moggi (chair)

2011 / Boris (Boaz) Trakhtenbrot

Place: ICALP (Zürich)

Committee: Paul G. Spirakis (chair), Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Eugenio Moggi

Photos from ICALP 2011 by Manfred Kudlek

2010 / Kurt Mehlhorn

Place: ICALP (Bordeaux)

Committee: Emo Welzl (Chair), Pavlos Spirakis and Eugenio Moggi

Photos from ICALP 2010 by Manfred Kudlek

2009 / Gérard Huet

Place: ICALP (Rhodes)

Committee: Catuscia Palamidessi (Chair), Paul Spirakis and Emo Welzl

Photos from ICALP 2009 by Manfred Kudlek

2008 / Leslie G. Valiant

Place: ICALP (Reykjavik)

Committee: David Peleg (chair), Catuscia Palamidessi and Emo Welzl

Photos from ICALP 2008 by Manfred Kudlek

2007 / Dana S. Scott

Place: ICALP (Wroclaw)

Committee: Wolfgang Thomas (chair), Catuscia Palamidessi and David Peleg

2006 / Mike Paterson

Place: ICALP (Venice)

Committee: M. Dezani-Ciancaglini (chair), D. Peleg, and W. Thomas

Photos from ICALP 2006

2005 / Robin Milner

Place: ICALP (Lisboa)

Committee: J. van Leeuwen (chair), M. Dezani-Ciancaglini and W. Thomas

2004 / Arto Salomaa

Place: ICALP (Turku)

Committee: J. van Leeuwen (chair)

2003 / Grzegorz Rozenberg

Place: ICALP (Eindhoven)

Committee: Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, Emo Welzl and Jan van Leeuwen (chair)


	2002 / Maurice Nivat Place: ICALP (Málaga)


	2001 / Corrado Böhm Place: ICALP (Creta)


	2000 / Richard Karp Place: ICALP (Geneva)

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