Major awards received by our faculty

• Full Listing of Major Awards
• National Academy Memberships
• Fellows of Professional Societies
• Awards from Professional Societies
• Major University Awards
• Honorary Degrees

Awards from Professional Societies

• James Hendler
  • Effective Expository Writing Award, 2000
    "Is There an Intelligent Agent in your Future?" Nature 11, March 1999
  • Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecturer, 2005

• Jack Minker
  • The Allen Newell Award, 2005
    For his fundamental contributions to the fields of deductive databases, logic programming, artificial intelligence, and, more generally, logic-based methods in Computer Science and for his truly unprecedented role in organizing and stimulating scientific discourse.

• Vic Basili
  • ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, 2000
• Raymond Miller
  • ACM Distinguished Service Award, 2002
    For strengthening and nurturing computer science as a profession and as a discipline. Throughout his career, departments, journal boards, technical committees, accreditation processes, curriculum revision initiatives, conferences, workshops, and numerous other professional activities have benefited from his judgment, leadership and energy.
• Jack Minker
  • ACM Outstanding Contribution Award
• Ben Shneiderman
  • ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award Winner, 2001
  • ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001
  • ACM SIGDOC Rigo Award, 1996
    For research on human-computer interacton.
• Marvin Zelkowitz
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, 2000

• Rama Chellappa
  • Best Paper Award, 1992
• Laveen Kanal
  • IAPR King-Sun Fu Award, 1992
    For contributions to pattern recognition

• Vic Basili
  • IEEE Computer Society, Harlan D. Mills Award, 2003
    For significant contributions to programming languages, program reading and writing, and empirical methods.
  • IEEE Computer Society, Society of Golden Core, 1996
    For various contributions to the Society's success.
• Rama Chellappa
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society, Technical Achievement Award, 2001
• Raymond Miller
  • IEEE Computer Society, Society of Golden Core, Charter Member, 1996
  • IEEE Third Millenium Medal, 2000
• Ben Shneiderman
  • IEEE Computer Society, Software Process Achievement Award, 2004
    Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Godard Space Flight Center, (associated with NASA Goddard, University of Maryland, and Computer Sciences Corporation), "In recognition of the Software Engineering Laboratory's long record of sustained achievement in software process improvement."
  • IEEE Distinguished Literary Contribution, 2003
    For "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies".
• Amitabh Varshney
  • IEEE VGTC, Technical Achievement Award, 2004
    In recognition of Seminal Achievements in Scientific Visualization of Molecular Surfaces.