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The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computational Theory (ACM SIGACT). The award is named in honor of Kurt Gödel. Gödel's connection to theoretical computer science is that he was the first to mention the "P versus NP" question, in a 1956 letter to John von Neumann in which Gödel asked whether a certain NP-complete problem could be solved in quadratic or linear time.

The Gödel Prize has been awarded since 1993. The prize is awarded alternately at ICALP (even years) and STOC (odd years). STOC is the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, one of the main North American conferences in theoretical computer science, whereas ICALP is the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, one of the main European conferences in the field. To be eligible for the prize, a paper must be published in a refereed journal within the last 14 (formerly 7) years. The prize includes a reward of US$5000.

The winner of the Prize is selected by a committee of six members. The EATCS President and the SIGACT Chair each appoint three members to the committee, to serve staggered three-year terms. The committee is chaired alternately by representatives of EATCS and SIGACT.

In contrast with the Gödel Prize, which recognizes outstanding papers, the Knuth Prize is awarded to individuals for their overall impact in the field.

Recipients

Year Name(s) Notes Publication year
1993 László Babai, Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Shlomo Moran, and Charles Rackoff for the development of interactive proof systems 1988, 1989
1994 Johan Håstad for an exponential lower bound on the size of constant-depth Boolean circuits (for the parity function). 1989
1995 Neil Immerman and Róbert Szelepcsényi for the Immerman–Szelepcsényi theorem regarding nondeterministic space complexity 1988, 1988
1996 Mark Jerrum and Alistair Sinclair for work on Markov chains and the approximation of the permanent of a matrix 1989, 1989
1997 Joseph Halpern and Yoram Moses for defining a formal notion of "knowledge" in distributed environments 1990
1998 Seinosuke Toda for Toda's theorem, which showed a connection between counting solutions (PP) and alternation of quantifiers (PH) 1991
1999 Peter Shor for Shor's algorithm for factoring numbers in polynomial time on a quantum computer 1997
2000 Moshe Y. Vardi and Pierre Wolper for work on temporal logic with finite automata 1994
2001 Sanjeev Arora, Uriel Feige, Shafi Goldwasser, Carsten Lund, László Lovász, Rajeev Motwani, Shmuel Safra, Madhu Sudan, and Mario Szegedy for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation 1996, 1998, 1998
2002 Géraud Sénizergues for proving that equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata is decidable 2001
2003 Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire for the AdaBoost algorithm in machine learning 1997
2004 Maurice Herlihy, Michael Saks, Nir Shavit and Fotios Zaharoglou for applications of topology to the theory of distributed computing 1999, 2000
2005 Noga Alon, Yossi Matias and Mario Szegedy for their foundational contribution to streaming algorithms 1999
2006 Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, Nitin Saxena for the AKS primality test 2004
2007 Alexander Razborov, Steven Rudich for natural proofs 1997
2008 Daniel Spielman, Shang-Hua Teng for smoothed analysis of algorithms 2004
2009 Omer Reingold, Salil Vadhan, Avi Wigderson for zig-zag product of graphs and undirected connectivity in log space 2002, 2008
2010 Sanjeev Arora, Joseph S. B. Mitchell for their concurrent discovery of a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem 1998, 1999
2011 Johan Håstad for proving optimal inapproximability results for various combinatorial problems 2001
2012 Elias Koutsoupias, Christos Papadimitriou, Noam Nisan, Amir Ronen, Tim Roughgarden and Éva Tardos for laying the foundations of algorithmic game theory 2009, 2002, 2001
2013 Dan Boneh, Matthew K. Franklin, and Antoine Joux for multi-party Diffie–Hellman key exchange and the Boneh–Franklin scheme in cryptography 2003,

2004

2014 Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem [fr], and Moni Naor for Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for middleware 2003,
2015 Daniel Spielman, Shang-Hua Teng for their series of papers on nearly-linear-time Laplacian solvers

2011 2013 2014

2016 Stephen Brookes and Peter W. O'Hearn for their invention of Concurrent Separation Logic 2007, 2007
2017 Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam D. Smith for the invention of differential privacy 2006
2018 Oded Regev for introducing the learning with errors problem 2009
2019 Irit Dinur for her new proof of the PCP theorem by gap amplification 2007
2020 Robin Moser and Gábor Tardos for their constructive proof of the Lovász local lemma 2010
2021 Andrei Bulatov, Jin-Yi Cai, Xi Chen, Martin Dyer, and David Richerby for their work on the classification of the counting complexity of constraint satisfaction problems 2013 2013 2017
2022 Zvika Brakerski, Craig Gentry, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan for their transformative contributions to cryptography by constructing efficient fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes 2014, 2014
2023 Samuel Fiorini, Serge Massar, and Sebastian Pokutta, Hans Raj Tiwary, Ronald de Wolf, and Thomas Rothvoss for showing that any extended formulation for the TSP polytope has exponential size 2015, 2017
2024 Ryan Williams for his work on circuit lower bounds and the “algorithms to lower bounds” paradigm 2011

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Premio Gödel para niños

  • List of computer science awards
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