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ACM DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD Statistics

No distinction is made between honorable mentions and doctoral dissertation awards.

School of Origin.

Berkeley 12
MIT 12
CMU 10
Stanford 3
Washington 4
Cornell 3

ACM DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARDS

Year
Name
Category
School
Employment

2003
AnHai Doan
Doctoral Dissertation Award
U. of Washington
UIUC

2003
Dina Katabi
Honorable Mention
MIT
MIT

2003
Subhash Khot
Honorable Mention
Princeton
Georgia Tech

2002
Venkatesan Guruswami
Doctoral Dissertation Award
MIT
U. of Washington

2002
Tim Roughgarden
Honorable Mention
Cornell
Stanford

2002
Robert C. Miller
Honorable Mention
CMU
MIT

2001
Ion Stoica
Doctoral Dissertation Award
CMU
Berkeley

2001
Robert O'Callahan
Honorable Mention
CMU
IBM T.J. Watson

2001
David Wagner
Honorable Mention
Berkeley
Berkeley

2000
Salil Vadhan
Doctoral Dissertation Award
MIT
Harvard

2000
William Chan
Honorable Mention
U. of Washington
Brown

2000
Michael D. Ernst
Honorable Mention
U. of Washington
MIT

1999
Dieter van Melkebeek
Doctoral Dissertation Award
U. of Chicago
Wisconsin-Madison

1998
Hari Balakrishnan
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Berkeley
MIT

1997
Steven R. McCanne
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Berkeley
???

1996
Xiaoyuan Tu
Doctoral Dissertation Award
U. of Toronto
SGI, Apple, Intel…

1996
Carl Waldspurger
Doctoral Dissertation Award
MIT
VMware

1995
Sanjeev Arora
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Berkeley
Princeton

1995
Dan Spielman
Doctoral Dissertation Award
MIT
MIT

1994
David Karger
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Stanford
MIT

1994
T.V. Raman
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Cornell
Cornell

1993
Madhu Sudan
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Berkeley
MIT

1993
James J. Kistler
Honorable Mention
CMU
???

1993
Pandu Nayak
Honorable Mention
Stanford
Nasa Ames

1992
Kenneth McMillan
Doctoral Dissertation Award
CMU
AT&T, Cadence Berkeley Labs

1992
Mendel Rosenblum
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Berkeley
Stanford

1991
Robert Schapire
Doctoral Dissertation Award
MIT
AT&T, Princeton

1991
Garth Gibson
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Berkeley
CMU

1991
Carsten Lund
Doctoral Dissertation Series
U. of Chicago
AT&T

1991
Asit Dan
Honorable Mention
U. Mass-Amherst
IBM T.J. Watson

1990
Hector Geffner
Doctoral Dissertation Award
UCLA
IBM…

1990
David Heckerman
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Stanford
Microsoft

1990
Noam Nissan
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Berkeley
Hebrew University

1989
Vijay Saraswat
Doctoral Dissertation Award
CMU
Penn State

1989
Michael J. Kearns
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Harvard
AT&T, Penn

1989
Joe Kilian
Doctoral Dissertation Series
MIT
NEC

1988
Mauricio Karchmer
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Hebrew U.
MIT, U of Toronto…

1988
Anne Condon
Doctoral Dissertation Series
U. of Washington
Wisconsin, U. of British Columbia

1988
David Dill
Doctoral Dissertation Series
CMU
Stanford

1987
John Canny
Doctoral Dissertation Award
MIT
Berkeley

1987
Leslie Greengard
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Yale
NYU

1987
Marc H. Brown
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Brown
DEC/Compaq…

1986
Johan Torkel Hastad
Doctoral Dissertation Award
MIT
Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden

1986
Ketan D. Mulmuley
Doctoral Dissertation Award
CMU
U. of Chicago

1986
Carl Ebeling
Doctoral Dissertation Series
CMU
U. of Washington

1986
David Ungar
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Berkeley
Stanford, Sun

1985
John R. Ellis
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Yale
DEC…

1985
Ben-Zion Chor
Doctoral Dissertation Series
MIT
Technion Israel…

1985
Daniel Hillis
Doctoral Dissertation Series
MIT
Disney, Applied Minds

1984
Manolis G.H. Katevenis
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Berkeley
Stanford, Crete

1984
James Korein
Doctoral Dissertation Series
UPenn
IBM T.J. Watson

1984
Henry Baird
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Princeton
RCA, Bell Labs, PARC

1984
Carl E. Bach
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Berkeley
Wisconsin

1983
Thomas W. Reps
Doctoral Dissertation Award
Cornell
Wisconsin-Madison

1983
Steven Johnson
Doctoral Dissertation Series
Indiana
Indiana

1983
Ellen Hildreth
Doctoral Dissertation Series
MIT
Wellesley

1982
Charles E. Leiserson
Doctoral Dissertation Award
CMU
MIT

Last updated on February 16, 2004.

Source: http://www.acm.org/awards/ddaward.html

Additional inxxxxation courtesy of http://www.google.com

Thanks to Ryan Williams for pointing out an error on the ACM web site. That should read “Joe Kilian” with one ‘L.’