| ACM Distinguished Member | ACM | August 1 | Distinguished ACM Member must have achieved a significant accomplishment in the field of computing, computer science, or information technology. Candidates must demonstrate substantial depth and breadth of understanding of the field and serve as mentors and role models to others in their field. | http://bit.ly/2rqyP6U |
| ACM Fellows Program | ACM | September 7 | ACM's most prestigious member grade recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Candidates for Fellow must have 5 years of continuous Professional Membership. | http://bit.ly/2t0VDZw |
| AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award | AAAI | September 24 | The Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award is presented annually at the IAAI conference in honor of Dr. Robert S. Engelmore's extraordinary service to AAAI, AI Magazine, the AI applications community, and his contributions to applied AI. The Award includes a certificate from IAAI and a $1,000.00 honorarium. The lecture is linked to a subsequent article in AI Magazine; thus the award recipients are selected jointly by IAAI and AI Magazine. | http://bit.ly/2toxG0X |
| AAAI Distinguished Service | AAAI | September 24 | The AAAI Distinguished Service award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community. Areas of service include: society service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of AI in other organizations or influential service as a government agency contract monitor or program director, resulting in positive effects on the field of AI. | http://bit.ly/2tH5DaS |
| AAAI Fellows Program | AAAI | September 24 | Usually only members who have made contributions to the field for a decade or more will be selected in any year. A Fellow may be recognized for individual technical contributions or for having performed significant extended service for the AAAI. Evidence of technical contribution will often be in the form of technical results and publications, but other evidence will also be considered, such as patent awards or statements of longstanding contribution to an industrial group effort. | http://bit.ly/1XMzF6K |
| AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator | AAAI/EAAI | September 24 | The annual AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator award was created in 2016 to honor a person (or group of people) who has made major contributions to AI education that provide long-lasting benefits to the AI community. Examples include innovating teaching methods, providing service to the AI education community, generating pedagogical resources, designing curricula, and educating students outside of higher education venues (or the general public) about AI. | http://bit.ly/2tABJ9M |
| AAAI Feigenbaum Prize | AAAI | September 25 | The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize is awarded biennially to recognize and encourage outstanding Artificial Intelligence research advances that are made by using experimental methods of computer science. The Feigenbaum Prize may be given for a sustained record of high-impact seminal contributions to experimental AI research; or it may be given to reward singular remarkable innovation and achievement in experimental AI research. | https://bit.ly/2wMIFAT |
| NSF Vannevar Bush Award | NSF | September 28 | The Vannevar Bush Award honors truly exceptional lifelong leaders in science and technology who have made substantial contributions to the welfare of the Nation through public service activities in science, technology, and public policy. The award was established in 1980 in the memory of Vannevar Bush, who served as a science advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, helped to establish Federal funding for science and engineering as a national priority during peacetime, and was behind the creation of the National Science Foundation. | https://bit.ly/2u2eGCQ |
| IEEE Charles Babbage | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | Established in memory of Charles Babbage in recognition of significant contributions in the field of parallel computation. The candidate would have made an outstanding, innovative contribution or contributions to parallel computation. It is hoped, but not required, that the winner will have also contributed to the parallel computation community through teaching, mentoring, or community service. The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements. | http://bit.ly/2u28wTl |
| IEEE Computer Entrepreneur Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | honors the technical and entrepreneurial leaders who are responsible for the growth of the computer industry | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/entrepreneur |
| IEEE Computer Society Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | A bronze medal is presented for significant contributions to concepts and developments in the electronic computer field which have clearly advanced the state of the art in computing. The contributions must have taken place fifteen or more years earlier. No endorsement is required. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/pioneer |
| IEEE Hans Karlsson Standards Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | Established in 1992 in memory of Hans Karlsson, chairman and father of the IEEE 1301 family of standards. A plaque and $2,000 honorarium is presented in recognition of outstanding skills and dedication to diplomacy, team facilitation and joint achievement, in the development or promotion of standards in the computer industry where individual aspirations, corporate competition, and organizational rivalry could otherwise be counter to the benefit of society. Eligibility is limited to present or past participants in IEEE CS Standards activities. The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/karlsson |
| IEEE Harlan Mills Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | Established in Harlan D. Mill's name to recognize researchers and practitioners who have demonstrated long-standing, sustained, and meaningful contributions to the theory and practice of the information sciences, focusing on contributions to the practice of software engineering through the application of sound theory. This technical award was first given in 1999. The award consists of a $3,000 honorarium, museum-quality memento, and a possible invited talk during the week of the annual International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE). The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/mills |
| IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | A bronze medal and $2,000 are awarded by the Computer Society on the basis of achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution. The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/goode |
| IEEE Richard E Merwin Distinguished Service Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | The highest level volunteer service award of the Computer Society. A bronze medal and $5,000 are given for outstanding service to the profession at large, including significant service to the Computer Society or its predecessor organizations. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/merwin |
| IEEE Taylor Booth Education Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | A bronze medal and $5,000 honorarium are awarded for an outstanding record in computer science and engineering education. The individual must meet two or more of the following criteria in the computer science and engineering field: 1. Achieving recognition as a teacher of renown. 2. Writing an influential text. 3. Leading, inspiring or providing significant education content during the creation of a curriculum in the field. 4. Inspiring others to a career in computer science and engineering education. Two endorsements are required for an award nomination. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/booth |
| IEEE Technical Achievement Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | A certificate and $2,000 honorarium are presented for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past ten, and not more than fifteen years. The award nomination requires a minimum of 2 endorsements. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/technical-achievement |
| IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | A bronze medal and $2,000 honorarium are presented for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest. The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/mcdowell |
| IEEE Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement Award | IEEE Computer Society | October 1 | The IEEE Computer Society/Software Engineering Institute Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement (SPA) Award is presented to recognize outstanding achievements in improving the ability of a target organization to create and evolve software-dependent systems. The award need not be made each year, and multiple awards may be made in a single year. | https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/humphrey-software-process-achievement |
| Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education, Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community | SIGCSE | October 2 | The SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education honors an individual or group in recognition of a significant contribution to computer science education. The contribution may take many forms, such as: curriculum design, innovating teaching methods, textbook authorship, development of new teaching tools, or any of a number of other significant contributions to computer science education. The contribution should have had long lasting impact on, and made a significant difference in, computing education. This award was initiated in 1981. | https://sigcse.org/programs/awards/ |
