Every year, ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
(SIGPLAN)
names a distinguished member of the PL community as recipient of
the Programming Language Achievement Award. Nominations for this
award close on
5th January.
The Programming Languages Achievement Award is given to recognize
an individual (or individuals) who has made a significant and
lasting contribution to the field of programming languages. The
contribution can be a single event or a life-time of
achievement. The award includes a prize of $5,000. Recent
recipients of the award include Rod Burstall, Barbara Liskov, and
Niklaus Wirth.
Nominations can be submitted at any time to the secretary of
SIGPLAN (
[hidden email]). Details of the nomination
process an be found at
http://www.sigplan.org/award-achievement.htm . Please consider
nominating a member of this community for this award.