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Grace Murray Hopper Award
The Grace Murray Hopper Awards (named for computer pioneer RADM Grace Hopper) has been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution at or before age 35.
Recipients.
- 1971 Donald E. Knuth
- 1972 Paul H. Dirksen
- 1972 Paul H. Cress
- 1973 Lawrence M. Breed
- 1973 Richard H. Lathwell
- 1973 Roger Moore
- 1974 George N.
Specification" (Addison-Wesley, third ed. 2005; ) with James Gosling, Bill Joy, and Gilad Bracha.
Awards.
Steele received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1988. He was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America in 2001 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. He received the Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award in 2005.
Other activities.
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