Nomination Deadline:
1 September 2025 - 11:59PM EDT
This award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements.
Nomination Questions (pdf)
Established in memory of Charles Babbage in recognition of significant contributions in the field of parallel computation. The candidate would have made an outstanding, innovative contribution or contributions to parallel computation. It is hoped, but not required, that the winner will have also contributed to the parallel computation community through teaching, mentoring, or community service.
This award covers all aspects of parallel computing including computational aspects, novel applications, parallel algorithms, theory of parallel computation, parallel computing technologies, among others.
A certificate and a US$1,000 honorarium presented to a single recipient. The winner will be invited to present a paper and/or presentation at the annual IEEE CS International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).
The IPDPS conference originated in 1986 as an activity of the Orange County (California) Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society Chapter. The founders of the first International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS) were primarily engineers from the semiconductor field and academics interested in computer architecture and high performance processing, looking to solve problems of computation through architectural and software innovation.
2025 Charles Babbage Award Subcommittee Chair
Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin
Past Recipients
- 2025 Srinivas Aluru: For pioneering contributions to the field of Parallel Computational Biology.
- 2024 Franck Cappello: For pioneering contributions and inspiring leadership in distributed computing, high-performance computing, resilience, and data reduction.
- 2023 Keshav Pingali: For contributions to high-performance compilers and graph computing.
- 2022 Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda: For contributions to high performance and scalable communication in parallel and high-end computing systems..
- 2021 Guy Blelloch: For contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms, and the interface between them.
- 2020 Yves Robert: For contributions to parallel algorithms and scheduling techniques.
- 2019 Ian T. Foster: For sustained contributions to high-performance computing and distributed systems at the highest level.
- 2017 Mateo Valero: For contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building an incredibly productive European research environment.
- 2015 Alan Edelman
- 2014 Peter Kogge
- 2013 James Demmel
- 2012 Chris Johnson
- 2011 Jack Dongarra
- 2010 Burton Smith
- 2009 Wen-Mei Hwu
- 2008 Joel Saltz
- 2007 Mike Flynn
- 2006 Bill Dally
- 2005 Yale N. Patt
- 2004 Christos Papadimitriou
- 2003 Michel Cosnard
- 2002 Steve Wallach
- 2001 Thomson Leighton
- 2000 Michael O. Rabin
- 1999 K. Mani Chandy
- 1998 Jim Gray
- 1997 Frances Allen
- 1995 Richard Karp
- 1994 Arvind
- 1993 K. Mani Chandy
- 1992 David Kuck
- 1991 Harold Stone
- 1990 H.T. Kung
- 1989 Irving S. Reed
