External Honors

Election to an Honorary Academy


Frances Allen (2001)
Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society

ACM Fellow

Association for Computing Machinery

Brent Hailpern (2003)
For leadership in, and service to, the computer science community.

Honorary Doctorate


Frances E. Allen (2004)
by University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

IFIP Governance

International Federation for Information Processing

Kemal Ebcioglu (2001-2003)
Member - IFIP Working Group 10.3 (Concurrent Systems)

Most Influential Paper in 20 years in Concurrent Constraint Programming

Association of Logic Programming

Vijay Saraswat (2004)
For the paper "Concurrent Constraint Programming", Vijay Saraswat and Martin Rinard, POPL 90

ACM Society Governance

Association for Computing Machinery

Michael Burke (2001-2003)
Vice Chair of Executive Committee - ACM SIGPLAN

John Field (2001-2003)
Chair of steering committee for ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE)

Brent Hailpern (1997-2003)
ACM SIGPLAN OOPSLA Steering Committee

Brent Hailpern (1999-2002)
Chair, OOPSLA Steering Commitee and Member, ACM SIGPLAN Executive Committee

Stuart Feldman (2000-2002)
Member-at-Large of Executive Committee of SIG Governing Board

Stuart Feldman (2002-2004)
Member of ACM Council

Michael Burek (2003-2005)
Chair of Executive Committee

Stuart Feldman (2004-2006)
Vice President

IEEE Fellow

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Mark Wegman (2003)
For contributions to the design, implementation, and analysis of algorithms and compiler technology

ACM Software Systems Award

Association for Computing machinery

Stuart Feldman (2004)
For creating a seminal piece of software engineering known as Make

Distinguished Executive of the Year
This award is presented annually to an executive who has exemplified outstanding and innovative management in their career.
Academy of Management

Stuart Feldman (2005)

A. M. Turing Award
The Turing Award, first presented in 1966, and named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing, is widely considered the "Nobel Prize in Computing."
ACM

Fran Allen (2006)
For contributions that fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems, and accelerated the use of high performance computing.