major award

ACM Prize in Computing

Recognizes early- to mid-career professionals whose work has fundamental impact across computing.

2007founded

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Scope

early-to-mid-career computing contributions

Awarding body: Association for Computing Machinery. Region: global. Current page shows representative timeline coverage already loaded into the public atlas.

Sample recipients and influential works

Matei Zaharia

Distributed data systems and computing infrastructure

2025

Recognized the systems infrastructure that helped make large-scale data, analytics, and applied AI practical in production environments.

Event source: 2025 ACM Prize in Computing announcement (year/event-specific)

2020sdistributed systemsdata engineeringmachine learning

Related work / context

Apache Spark (software, 2014, canonical)

Torsten Hoefler

High-performance computing for the AI era

2024

Recognized contributions that advanced large-scale high-performance computing and its role in modern AI systems and infrastructure.

Event source: 2024 ACM Prize in Computing announcement (year/event-specific)

2020shigh-performance computingsystemsartificial intelligence

Related work / context

Torsten Hoefler research profile (profile, 2024, contextual)