哥德尔奖

1993年设立的理论计算机领域奖项
哥德尔奖(Gödel Prize),由欧洲计算机学会(EATCS)与美国计算机学会基础理论专业组织(ACM SIGACT)于1993年共同设立,颁给理论计算机领域最杰出的学术论文。其名称取自伟大的逻辑学家库尔特·哥德尔(Kurt Gödel)。哥德尔也被认为是理论计算机的先驱。著名的P vs. NP问题,被发现是哥德尔在1956年写给冯·诺依曼(John von Neumann)的一封信中首次提到的。哥德尔奖是理论计算机领域最负盛名的奖项。
哥德尔奖自1993年起每年于该年度的STOC或ICALP上颁发一次,奖金为$5000。

历年获奖者名单

年份
姓名
理论成果
1993年
László Babai
Shafi Goldwasser
Silvio Micali
Shlomo Moran
Charles Rackoff
for the development ofinteractive proof systems
1994年
Johan Håstad
for an exponential lower bound on the size of constant-depth Boolean circuits (for the parity function).
1995年
Neil Immerman
Róbert Szelepcsényi
for the Immerman–Szelepcsényi theorem regarding nondeterministic space complexity
1996年
Mark Jerrum
Alistair Sinclair
for work on Markov chains and the approximation of the permanent of a matrix
1997年
Maurice Herlihy
Mike Saks
Nir Shavit
Fotios Zaharoglou
for defining a formal notion of "knowledge" in distributed environments
1998年
Seinosuke Toda
for Toda's theorem which showed a connection between counting solutions (PP) and alternation of quantifiers (PH)
1999年
Peter Shor
for Shor's algorithm for factoring numbers in polynomial time on a quantum computer
2000年
Moshe Y. Vardi
Pierre Wolper
for work on temporal logic with finite automata
2001年
Sanjeev Arora
Uriel Feige
Shafi Goldwasser
Carsten Lund
László Lovász
Rajeev Motwani
Shmuel Safra
Madhu Sudan
Mario Szegedy
for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation
2002年
Géraud Sénizergues
for proving that equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata is decidable
2003年
Yoav Freund
Robert Schapire
for the AdaBoost algorithm in machine learning
2004年
Maurice Herlihy
Mike Saks
Nir Shavit
Fotios Zaharoglou
for applications of topology to the theory of distributed computing
2005年
Noga Alon
Yossi Matias
Mario Szegedy
for their foundational contribution to streaming algorithms
2006年
Manindra Agrawal
Neeraj Kayal
Nitin Saxena
for the AKS primality test
2007年
Alexander Razborov
Steven Rudich
for natural proofs
2008年
Daniel Spielman
for smoothed analysis of algorithms
2009年
Omer Reingold
Salil Vadhan
Avi Wigderson
for zig-zag product of graphs and undirected connectivity in log space
2010年
Sanjeev Arora
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
for their concurrent discovery of a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem (ETSP)
2011年
Johan Håstad
for proving optimal inapproximability result for various combinatorial problems
2012年
Elias Koutsoupias
Christos Papadimitriou
Noam Nisan
Amir Ronen
Tim Roughgarden
Éva Tardos
for laying the foundations of algorithmic game theory
2013年
Dan Boneh
Matthew K. Franklin
Antoine Joux
for multi-party Diffie–Hellman key exchange and the Boneh–Franklin scheme in cryptography
2014年
Ronald Fagin
Amnon Lotem
Moni Naor
for Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middlewar
2015年
滕尚华
Daniel Spielman
for their series of papers on nearly-linear-time Laplacian solvers

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