| Year |
Recipients |
Citation |
| 2022 |
Yael Tauman Kalai |
For breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. |
| 2021 |
Pieter Abbeel |
For contributions to robot learning, including learning from demonstrations and deep reinforcement learning for robotic control. |
| 2020 |
Scott Aaronson |
For groundbreaking contributions to quantum computing. |
| 2019 |
David Silver |
For breakthrough advances in computer game-playing. |
| 2018 |
Shwetak Patel |
For contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health. |
| 2017 |
Dina Katabi |
For her groundbreaking work in human-sensing technologies using wireless signals and in reducing interference across wireless networks. |
| 2016 |
Alexei A. Efros |
For groundbreaking data-driven approaches to computer graphics and computer vision. |
| 2015 |
Stefan Savage |
For innovative research in network security, privacy, and reliability that has taught us to view attacks and attackers as elements of an integrated technological, societal, and economic system. |
| 2014 |
Dan Boneh |
For ground-breaking contributions to the development of pairing-based cryptography and its application in identity-based encryption. |
| 2013 |
David Blei |
For contributions to the theory and practice of probabilistic topic modeling and Bayesian machine learning. |
| 2012 |
Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat |
For their leadership in the science and engineering of Internet-scale distributed systems. |
| 2011 |
Sanjeev Arora |
For contributions to computational complexity, algorithms, and optimization that have helped reshape our understanding of computation. |
| 2010 |
Frans Kaashoek |
For his landmark contributions to the structuring, robustness, scalability, and security of software systems, enabling efficient, mobile, and highly distributed applications and setting important research directions. |
| 2009 |
Eric A. Brewer |
For his design and development of highly scalable internet services and innovations in bringing information technology to developing regions. |
| 2008 |
Jon Kleinberg |
For his contributions to the science of networks and the World Wide Web. His work is a deep combination of social insights and mathematical reasoning. |
| 2007 |
Daphne Koller |
For her work on combining relational logic and probability that allows probabilistic reasoning to be applied to a wide range of applications, including robotics, economics, and biology. |