# ACM Software System Award

Der ACM Software System Award ist eine jährliche Auszeichnung, die an Personen oder Organisationen verliehen wird, die sich auf dem Gebiet der Software-System-Entwicklung besonders verdient gemacht haben.
Er wird seit 1983 von der Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) vergeben und ist – Stand 2016 – mit 35.000 US-Dollar dotiert.

## Preisträger

| Jahr | Grund der Auszeichnung | Personen |
| 1983 | Unix | Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson |
| 1984 | Xerox Alto | Butler W. Lampson, Robert W. Taylor, Charles P. Thacker |
| 1985 | Visicalc | Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston |
| 1986 | TeX | Donald E. Knuth |
| 1987 | Smalltalk | Adele Goldberg, Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Alan C. Kay |
| 1988 | Ingres | Gerald Held, Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong |
| 1988 | System R | Donald D. Chamberlin, Jim Gray, Raymond Lorie, Gianfranco Putzolu, Patricia Selinger, Irving Traiger |
| 1989 | PostScript | Douglas K. Brotz, Charles M. Geschke, William H. Paxton, Edward A. Taft, John E. Warnock |
| 1990 | On-Line System (NLS) | Douglas C. Engelbart, William English, Jeff Rulifson |
| 1991 | TCP/IP | Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn |
| 1992 | Interlisp | Daniel Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren Teitelman |
| 1993 | Sketchpad | Ivan Sutherland |
| 1994 | Remote Procedure Call | Andrew Birrell, Bruce Nelson |
| 1995 | World Wide Web | Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau |
| 1996 | NCSA Mosaic | Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina |
| 1997 | Tcl/Tk | John Ousterhout |
| 1998 | S | John M. Chambers |
| 1999 | The Apache Group | Brian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau, Andrew Wilson |
| 2001 | SPIN model checker | Gerard Holzmann |
| 2002 | Java | James Gosling |
| 2003 | Make | Stuart Feldman |
| 2004 | Secure Network Programming | Raghuram Bindignavle, Simon S. Lam, Shaowen Su, Thomas Y. C. Woo |
| 2005 | The Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover (Nqthm) | Robert S. Boyer, Matt Kaufmann, J. Strother Moore |
| 2006 | Eiffel | Bertrand Meyer |
| 2007 | Statemate | David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Mark Trakhtenbrot, Aron Trauring |
| 2008 | Gamma Parallel Database System | David DeWitt, Robert Gerber, Murali Krishna, Donovan Schneider, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Goetz Graefe, Michael Heytens, Hui-I Hsiao, Jeffrey Naughton, Anoop Sharma |
| 2009 | VMware Workstation for Linux 1.0 | Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum, Jeremy Sugerman, Edward Y. Wang |
| 2010 | GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems | Peter Bergstrom, Lee R. Gordon, Jonathan L. Herlocker, Neophytos Iacovou, Joseph A. Konstan, Shyong K. Lam, David Maltz, Sean McNee, Bradley Miller, Paul J. Resnick, John T Riedl, Mitesh Suchak |
| 2011 | Eclipse (IDE) | John Wiegand, Dave Thomson, Gregory Adams, Philippe Mulet, Julian Jones, John Duimovich, Kevin Haaland, Stephen Northover, Erich Gamma |
| 2012 | LLVM | Vikram S. Adve, Evan Cheng, Chris Lattner |
| 2013 | Coq | Thierry Coquand, Gérard Huet, Christine Paulin-Mohring, Bruno Barras, Jean-Christophe Filliâtre, Hugo Herbelin, Chet Murthy, Yves Bertot, Pierre Castéran |
| 2014 | Mach (Kernel) | Rick Rashid, Avie Tevanian |
| 2015 | GNU Compiler Collection | Richard Stallman |
| 2016 | Andrew File System | Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael L. Kazar, Robert N. Sidebotham, David A. Nichols, Michael J. West, John H. Howard, Alfred Z. Spector, Sherri M. Nichols |
| 2017 | Jupyter | Fernando Pérez, Brian E. Granger, Min Ragan-Kelley, Paul Ivanov, Thomas Kluyver, Jason Grout, Matthias Bussonnier, Damián Avila, Steven Silvester, Jonathan Frederic, Kyle Kelley, Jessica Hamrick, Carol Willing, Sylvain Corlay, Peter Parente |
| 2018 | Wireshark | Gerald C. Combs |
| 2019 | Domain Name System | Paul Mockapetris |
| 2020 | NoSQL, Dual Licence | Margo Seltzer, Mike Olson, Keith Bostic |
| 2021 | CompCert | Xavier Leroy, Sandrine Blazy, Zaynah Dargaye, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Michael Schmidt, Bernhard Schommer, Jean-Baptiste Tristan |
| 2022 | seL4 | Gernot Heiser, Gerwin Klein, Harvey Tuch, Kevin Elphinstone, June Andronick, David Cock, Philip Derrin, Dhammika Elkaduwe, Kai Engelhardt, Toby Murray, Rafal Kolanski, Michael Norrish, Thomas Sewell, Simon Winwood |
| 2023 | MINIX | Andrew S. Tanenbaum |