Gary Miller presents Volker Strassen with the 2008 Knuth Prize at SODA 2009.

The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.

The Knuth Prize is awarded every one and a half years since 1996 and includes an award of $5000. The prize is awarded by ACM SIGACT and by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing. Prizes are awarded in alternation at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing and at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, which are among the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science.

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

[edit] Winners

• 1996 - Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
• 1997 - Leslie Valiant
• 1999 - László Lovász
• 2000 - Jeffrey D. Ullman
• 2002 - Christos Papadimitriou
• 2003 - Miklos Ajtai
• 2005 - Mihalis Yannakakis
• 2007 - Nancy Lynch
• 2008 - Volker Strassen

[edit] External links

• Prize website with list of winners

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