Faculty Awards
Our faculty has been successful in obtaining various international recognitions for their research achievements. Below, we provide a list of the major awards and recognitions received by our faculty members.
1984 - Niklaus Wirth (em.)
For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages: EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL.
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1987 - Niklaus Wirth (em.)
For PASCAL, pedagogically significant and providing a foundation for future computer language, systems and architectural research.
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2022 - Torsten Hoefler
For his pioneering contributions to large-scale parallel processing systems and supercomputers
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2023 - Andreas Krause: For contributions to learning-based decision making under uncertainty
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2022 - Torsten Hoefler: For foundational contributions to High-Performance Computing and the application of HPC techniques to machine learning
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2022 - Marc Pollefeys: For contributions to geometric computer vision and applications to AR/VR/MR, robotics and autonomous vehicles
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2022 - Zhendong Su: For contributions to the field of software testing and analysis
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2020 - Olga Sorkine-Hornung: For contributions to digital geometry processing, computer animation, computer graphics and visual computing
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2019 - Srdjan Capkun: For contributions to systems and wireless network security
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2018 - David Basin: For contributions to information security and formal methods
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2017 - Onur Mutlu: For contributions to computer architecture research, especially in memory systems
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2017 - Bernhard Schölkopf: For contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning
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2017 - Adrian Perrig: For contributions in protocols for network and system security
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2015 - Ueli Maurer: For contributions to cryptography and information security
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2013 - Timothy Roscoe: For contributions to operating systems and networking research
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2012 - Gustavo Alonso: For contributions to distributed systems, middleware, and data management
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2012 - Markus Gross: For contributions to computer graphics and animation
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2012 - Donald Kossmann (alumnus): For advances in XML data management and distributed information systems
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2008 - Bertrand Meyer (em.): For contributions to software engineering and programming languages
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2001 - Hans-Jörg Schek (em.): For contributions to practice of database management, leadership role in academia and service to the ACM community
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1998 - Emo Welzl: For contributions in geometric and combinatorial algorithms and for bringing together discrete mathematics and algorithmics
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1997 - Peter Widmayer (em.): Contributions in data structures & algorithms, advancing geometric & combinatorial computation & spatial databases
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1995 - Jürg Nievergelt † (em.): Influential contributions in data structures (trees, extendible hashing, gridfile) and software for geometry (GeoBench)
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1995 - Erwin Engeler (em.): For pioneering work on the interrelations between logic, computer science and scientific computation
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1994 - Niklaus Wirth (em.): For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages: EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL
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2023 - Srdjan Capkun: For contributions to wireless and systems security
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2023 - Zhendong Su: For contributions to automated software testing and analysis
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2022 - Adrian Perrig: For contributions to network and system security
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2021 - Torsten Hoefler: For contributions to large-scale parallel processing systems and supercomputers
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2021 - David Basin: For contributions to formal methods for information security
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2020 - Markus Püschel: For contributions to the implementation of signal processing techniques
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2018 - Onur Mutlu: For contributions to computer architecture research and practice
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2014 - Gustavo Alonso: For contributions to data management and distributed systems
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2012 - Marc Pollefeys: For contributions to three-dimensional computer vision
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2003 - Ueli Maurer: For contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography
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1986 - Jürg Nievergelt † (em.): For contributions to the field of data and file structures
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2023 - Mennatallah El-Assady: Young Researcher Award, Eurographics
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2021 - Florian Tramer: AdvML Rising Star Award
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2020 - Torsten Hoefler: BenchCouncil Rising Star Award
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2019 - Martin Vechev: ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award
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2018 - Bernhard Thomaszewski: Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Scientist
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2017 - Mohsen Ghaffari: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, honorable mention
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2016 - Zhendong Su: CACM Research Highlight for “On the Naturalness of Software”
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2014 - Torsten Hoefler: Young Alumni Award, School of Informatics, Indiana University
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2013 - Torsten Hoefler: Young Achiever in Scalable Computing, IEEE TCSC
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2012 - Andreas Krause: DAGM German Pattern Recognition Award (Deutscher Mustererkennungspreis)
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2011 - David Steurer: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, honourable mention
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2011 - Olga Sorkine-Hornung: Significant New Researcher Award, ACM SIGGRAPH
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2008 - Olga Sorkine-Hornung: Young Researcher Award, Eurographics
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2006 - Srdjan Capkun: Danish Independent Research Council’s Young Elite Researcher’s Award
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2022 - Olga Sorkine-Hornung: Symposium on Geometry Processing "Test of Time" Award, Paper
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2022 - Adrian Perrig: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy "Test of Time" Award, Paper
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2022 - Zhendong Su: ICSE Most Influential Paper Award
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2021 - Otmar Hilliges: ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award
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2021 - Otmar Hilliges: IEEE ISMAR 10-year Paper Impact Award
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2020 - Andreas Krause: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) "Test of Time" Award
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2020 - Adrian Perrig: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy "Test of Time" Award, Paper 1
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2020 - Adrian Perrig: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy "Test of Time" Award, Paper 2
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2020 - Adrian Perrig: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy "Test of Time" Award, Paper 3
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Adrian Perrig - 2020: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy "Test of Time" Award, Paper 4
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2020 - David Basin: Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) "Test of Time" Award
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2020 - Joachim Buhmann: Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) "Test of Time" Award
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2020 - Emo Welzl: Symposium of Computational Geometry (SoCG) "Test of Time" Award
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2019 - Gustavo Alonso: ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference "Test of Time" Award
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2019 - Andreas Krause: ACM SIGKDD "Test of Time" Award
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2018 - Zhendong Su: ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award
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2017 - Thomas Hofmann: ACM SIGIR "Test of Time" Award
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2017 - Gustavo Alonso: ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference "Test of Time" Award
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2017 - Timothy Roscoe: ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference "Test of Time" Award
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2016 - Ueli Maurer: Theory of Cryptography (TCC) "Test of Time" Award
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2014 - Thomas Gross (em.): ACM Micro "Test of Time" Award
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2014 - Timothy Roscoe: NSDI 10-Year "Test of Time" Award
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2013 - Andreas Krause: IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award
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2013 - Timothy Roscoe: ACM SIGCOMM 10-Year "Test of Time" Award
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2012 - Gustavo Alonso: ACM AOSD 10-Year "Most Influential Paper" Award
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2012 - David Basin: MODELS 10-Year "Most Influential Paper" Award
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2012 - Thomas Gross (em.): ACM AOSD 10-Year "Most Influential Paper" Award
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2012 - Donald Kossmann (alumnus): IEEE ICDE "Most Influential Paper" Award
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2010 - Gustavo Alonso: VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award
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2008 - Hans-Jörg Schek (em.): VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award
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2024 - Mennatallah El-Assady: Visualization Significant New Researcher Award IEEE VIS
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2024 - Torsten Hoefler: Max Planck-Humboldt Medal
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2024 - Barbara Solenthaler: Frontiers of Science Award
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2024 - Markus Gross: Eurographics Gold Medal
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2023 - Rasmus Kyng: Frontiers of Science Award
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2023 - Gustavo Alonso: EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award
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2023 - David Cock: ACM Software System Award
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2023 - Torsten Hoefler: Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
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2022 - Zhendong Su: Amazon Research Award
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2022 - Bernhard Schölkopf: ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award
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2022 - Zhendong Su: Meta Security Research Award
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2022 - Joachim Buhmann: Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
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2021 - Andreas Krause: Max Planck Fellow
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2021 - Martin Vechev: IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
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2021 - Thomas Hofmann: Max Planck Fellow
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2021 - Otmar Hilliges: Max Planck Fellow
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2021 - Peter Müller: Spring 2021 Amazon Research Award
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2021 - Markus Gross: ACM SIGGRAPH, Steven Anson Coons Award
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2020 - Timothy Roscoe: ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award
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2020 - Onur Mutlu: IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
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2020 - Niao He: Center for Advanced Study Fellow
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2020 - Bernhard Schölkopf: BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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2019 - Torsten Hoefler: IEEE Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researcher)
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2019 - Bertrand Meyer (em.): International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Fellowship
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2019 - Torsten Hoefler: ACM Gordon Bell Prize
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2019 - Onur Mutlu: ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
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2019 - Markus Gross: Tech Oscar, Academy of Motion and Picture Arts and Sciences
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2019 - Bernhard Thomaszewski: Canada Research Chair in Computational Design for Digital Manufacturing
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2019 - Bernhard Schölkopf: Körber European Science Prize
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2018 - David Steurer: Inaugural Michael and Sheila Held Prize, National Academy of Sciences
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2018 - Bernhard Schölkopf: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis
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2018 - Markus Gross: Eurographics Distinguished Career Award
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2018 - David Basin: GSMA Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame
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2017 - Bertrand Meyer (em.): ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
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2017 - Olga Sorkine-Hornung: Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award
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2017 - Bernhard Thomaszewski: Discovery Accelerator Award (NSERC)
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2017 - Kenny Paterson: IACR Fellow
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2017 - Joachim Buhmann: Honorary Member of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM)
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2017 - Juraj Hromkovic: State Award of the Slovak Republic
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2016 - Ueli Maurer: RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics
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2015 - Markus Gross: IEEE Visualization Career Award
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2015 - Olga Sorkine-Hornung: Eurographics Fellow
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2015 - Juraj Hromkovic: State Award of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
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2014 - Timothy Roscoe: USENIX Association Software Tools User Group (STUG) Award
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2013 - Markus Gross: Konrad-Zuse Medal
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2013 - Markus Gross: Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize
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2013 - Markus Gross: Tech Oscar, Academy of Motion and Picture Arts and Sciences
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2013 - Ueli Maurer: Vodafone Innovation Prize
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2013 - Adrian Perrig: Outstanding Innovation Award, ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control
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2013 - Marc Pollefeys: Prix de Boelpaepe, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts, Belgium
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2011 - Markus Gross: Swiss ICT Award
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2010 - Markus Gross: Outstanding Technical Contributions Award, Eurographics
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2009 - Bertrand Meyer (em.): IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award
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2008 - Ueli Maurer: Fellow, International Association for Cryptologic Research
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2008 - Carl August Zehnder (em.): Dr. J. E. Brandenberger Prize
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2006 - Markus Gross: Fellow, Eurographics Association
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2006 - Bertrand Meyer (em.): ACM Software System Award
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2005 - Bertrand Meyer (em.): Senior Prize, AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize
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1999 - Niklaus Wirth (em.): Outstanding Research Award in Software Engineering, ACM SIGSOFT
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1998 - Bertrand Meyer (em.): Jolt Award, D. Dobbs
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1995 - Niklaus Wirth (em.): Order pour le mérite for science and arts
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1991 - Markus Gross: Outstanding Research Award, German Association of Electrical Engineers (VDE)
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Academia Europaea
2023 - Marc Pollefeys
2021 - Torsten Hoefler
2021 - Zhendong Su
2018 - Onur Mutlu
2013 - Friedemann Mattern (em.)
2011 - Bertrand Meyer (em.)
2010 - Juraj Hromkovic
2007 - Niklaus Wirth (em.)
2006 - Emo Welzl
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
2020 - Markus Gross
acatech National Academy of Science and Engineering
2021 - Markus Gross
Niklaus Wirth (em.)
ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
2019 - Markus Gross
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
1989 - Jürg Nievergelt (em.)
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2014 - Emo Welzl
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2012 - Markus Gross
2007 - Emo Welzl
1996 - Niklaus Wirth (em.)
German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
2017 - Bernhard Schölkopf
2011 - Markus Gross
2007 - Angelika Steger
2007 - Ueli Maurer
2005 - Emo Welzl
2003 - Friedemann Mattern (em.)
IEEE Visualization Academy
2019 - Markus Gross
International Association for Cryptologic Research
2017 - Kenny Paterson
National Academy of Engineering of Korea
2018 - Markus Gross
National Academy of Technologies of France (Académie des Technologies)
1991 - Bertrand Meyer (em.)
Slovak Academy of Sciences
2001 - Juraj Hromkovic
Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
2024 - Ueli Maurer
2022 - Adrian Perrig
2022 - Olga Sorkine-Hornung
2019 - David Basin
2017 - Joachim Buhmann
2017 - Markus Gross
2011 - Francois Cellier (em.)
2007 - Walter Gander (em.)
1992 - Niklaus Wirth (em.)
1988 - Carl August Zehnder (em.)
US National Academy of Engineering
1994 - Niklaus Wirth (em.)