ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award
# ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award

The ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award is awarded every two or three years by the Association for Computing Machinery to an individual or a group of individuals who have made a significant contribution to the use of information technology for humanitarian purposes in a wide range of social domains. It is named after the computer scientist Eugene Lawler. The award includes a financial reward of US$5,000.

## Recipients

| Year | Recipients | Citation |
| - | - | - |
| 1999 | Antonia Stone | For her role as founder of Playing to Win and CTCNet |
| 2001 | John Blitch | For his leadership in the prior development and rapid deployment of the urban search and rescue robots used after the September 11 attacks |
| 2003 | Patrick Ball | for his leadership in the creation of open source software |
| 2005 | Ernest Siva, Solomon Mbuguah, Albrecht Ehrensperger | For their contributions to the Nakuru Local Urban Observatory project in Kenya |
| 2007 | Randy Wang | For founding and leading the Digital Study Hall Project |
| 2009 | Gregory Abowd | For his work on how advanced information technologies can be used in homes and schools to support people with autism |
| 2012 | Johannes Schöning, Thomas Bartoschek | For their contributions to GI@School (Geoinformatics at Schools), a program that encourages young people to develop a fascination for computer science and computer science research |
| 2014 | Robin Murphy | For her pioneering work in humanitarian disaster response through search and rescue robotics |
| 2016 | Ken Banks | For developing FrontlineSMS, using mobile technology and text messaging to empower people to share information, organize aid, and reconnect communities during crises. |
| 2018 | Meenakshi Balakrishnan | For research, development, and deployment of cost-effective embedded-system and software solutions addressing mobility and education challenges of the visually impaired in the developing world. |
| 2020 | Richard Anderson | For developing a range of innovative applications in health, education, the internet, and financial services, benefiting underserved communities around the globe. |
| 2022 | Jelani Nelson | For founding and developing AddisCoder, a nonprofit organization which teaches programming to underserved students from all over Ethiopia. |
