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|[[1993]] ||[[László Babai]], [[Shafi Goldwasser]], [[Silvio Micali]], [[Shlomo Moran]], and [[Charles Rackoff]] ||for the development of [[interactive proof system]]s
|[[1993]] ||[[László Babai]], [[Shafi Goldwasser]], [[Silvio Micali]], [[Shlomo Moran]], and [[Charles Rackoff]] ||for the development of [[interactive proof system]]s
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|[[1994]] ||[[Johan Håstad]], for an [[exponential lower bound]] on the size of constant-depth [[Boolean circuits]] ||for the [[parity function]]
|[[1994]] ||[[Johan Håstad]] || for an [[exponential lower bound]] on the size of constant-depth [[Boolean circuits]] (for the [[parity function)]]
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|[[1995]] ||[[Neil Immerman]] and [[Róbert Szelepcsényi]] ||for the [[Immerman-Szelepcsényi theorem]]
|[[1995]] ||[[Neil Immerman]] and [[Róbert Szelepcsényi]] ||for the [[Immerman-Szelepcsényi theorem]] regarding nondeterministic space complexity
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|[[1996]] ||[[Mark Jerrum]] and [[Alistair Sinclair]] || for work on [[Markov chains]] and the approximation of the [[permanent of a matrix|permanent]]
|[[1996]] ||[[Mark Jerrum]] and [[Alistair Sinclair]] || for work on [[Markov chains]] and the approximation of the [[permanent of a matrix|permanent]]
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|[[1998]] ||[[Seinosuke Toda]] ||
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|[[1999]] ||[[Peter Shor]], for [[Shor's algorithm]] ||for [[factoring]] numbers in [[polynomial time]] on a [[quantum computer]]
|[[1999]] ||[[Peter Shor]] || for [[Shor's algorithm]] for [[factoring]] numbers in [[polynomial time]] on a [[quantum computer]]
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|[[2000]] ||[[Moshe Y. Vardi]] and [[Pierre Wolper]] ||
|[[2000]] ||[[Moshe Y. Vardi]] and [[Pierre Wolper]] ||

Revision as of 02:19, 28 April 2008

The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT).

The Gödel Prize is awarded annually, since 1993. It includes an award of $5000. The prize is awarded either at STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, one of the main North American conferences in theoretical computer science) or ICALP (International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, one of the main European conferences in the field). To be eligible for the prize, a paper must be published in a refereed journal within the last 14 (formerly 7) years.

Recipients
Year Recipient(s) Notes
1993 László Babai, Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Shlomo Moran, and Charles Rackoff for the development of interactive proof systems
1994 Johan Håstad for an exponential lower bound on the size of constant-depth Boolean circuits (for the parity function)
1995 Neil Immerman and Róbert Szelepcsényi for the Immerman-Szelepcsényi theorem regarding nondeterministic space complexity
1996 Mark Jerrum and Alistair Sinclair for work on Markov chains and the approximation of the permanent
1997 Joseph Halpern and Yoram Moses
1998 Seinosuke Toda
1999 Peter Shor for Shor's algorithm for factoring numbers in polynomial time on a quantum computer
2000 Moshe Y. Vardi and Pierre Wolper
2001 Sanjeev Arora, Uriel Feige, Shafi Goldwasser, Carsten Lund, László Lovász, Rajeev Motwani, Shmuel Safra, Madhu Sudan, and Mario Szegedy
2002 Géraud Sénizergues for proving that equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata is decidable
2003 Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire for the AdaBoost algorithm
2004 Maurice Herlihy, Mike Saks, Nir Shavit and Fotios Zaharoglou for applications of topology to the theory of distributed computing
2005 Noga Alon, Yossi Matias and Mario Szegedy
2006 Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, Nitin Saxena for the AKS primality test
2007 Alexander Razborov, Steven Rudich for Natural Proofs