The 2025 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is presented to Paul Blain Levy for his fundamental study of effectful λ-calculi through the Call-by-Push-Value calculus. The awardee book and paper are: Paul Blain Levy. Call-By-Push-Value: A Functional/Imperative Synthesis. Semantics Structures in Computation 2, Springer 2004, ISBN 1-4020-1730-8 Paul Blain Levy. Call-by-Push-Value:… Continue reading »
The 2024 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is presented jointly to Thomas Ehrhard and Laurent Regnier for giving a logical and computational account of differentiation, bringing Taylor expansion to the Curry-Howard correspondence, which had a major impact on programming language semantics. The awarded papers are: Thomas Ehrhard. Finiteness spaces. In:… Continue reading »
The 2023 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given jointly to Lars Birkedal, Aleš Bizjak, Derek Dreyer, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Filip Sieczkowski, Kasper Svendsen, David Swasey and Aaron Turon for the design and implementation of Iris, a higher-order concurrent separation logic framework.
The 2022 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given to Dexter Kozen for for his fundamental work on developing the theory and applications of Kleene Algebra with Tests, an equational system for reasoning about iterative programs.
The 2021 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given jointly to Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Reinhard Pichler, Klaus U. Schulz, and Luc Segoufin for their fundamental work on logic-based web data extraction and querying tree-structured data
The 2020 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given jointly to Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Renée J. Miller, Lucian Popa, and Wang Chiew Tan for their ground-breaking work on laying the logical foundations for data exchange.
The 2019 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given jointly to Murdoch J. Gabbay and Andrew M. Pitts for their ground-breaking work introducing the theory of nominal representations.
The 2018 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given jointly to Tomás Feder and Moshe Y. Vardi for their fundamental contributions to the computational complexity of constraint-satisfaction problems.
The 2017 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given jointly to Samson Abramsky, Radha Jagadeesan, Pasquale Malacaria, Martin Hyland, Luke Ong, and Hanno Nickau for providing a fully-abstract semantics for higher-order computation through the introduction of game models, thereby fundamentally revolutionising the field of programming language semantics, and for the… Continue reading »
The 2016 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given to Rajeev Alur and David Dill for their invention of timed automata, a decidable model of real-time systems, which combines a novel, elegant, deep theory with widespread practical impact.