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Lovelace Medal

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The Lovelace Medal was established by BCS in 1998 and is administered by the Awards Committee of the BCS Academy of Computing.

The Medal is presented to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding or advancement of Computing.

About the medal | How to nominate

 

Lovelace Lectures

  • Professor John ReynoldsBCS Lovelace Lecture 2011
    Title: 'Making Program Logics Intelligible'.
    Speaker: Professor John Reynolds
    Date / Location: 8 June 2011, London
  • Prof. Yorick WilkesBCS Lovelace Lecture 2010
    Title: What will a companionable computational agent be like?
    Speaker: Professor Yorick Wilks
    Date / Location: 7 July 2010, London
  • Tony StoreyBCS Lovelace Lecture 2009
    Title: The Sins of IT Projects and why they can fail
    Speaker: Maurice Perks on behalf of Dr Tony Storey
    Date / Location: 13 May 2009, London

Lovelace Medal 2011

The winner of the 2011 Lovelace Medal is Dr Hermann Hauser.

Previous winners

Past winners of the Lovelace Medal have included:

2010 - Professor John C Reynolds
2009 - Professor Yorick Wilks
2008 - Dr Tony Storey
2007 - Karen Sparck-Jones
2006 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
2005 - Dr Nicholas McKeown