The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners for 2019

AITO is happy to announce the winners of the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2019.

The Junior Prize was awarded to Ilya Sergey for his significant contributions in the development and application of programming language techniques to various problems across the programming spectrum, covering object-oriented , functional, distributed, and concurrent programming, as well as the blockchain and smart contracts.

The Senior Prize was awarded to Laurie Hendren for her continuous and significant contributions for the past 30 years to the field of object-oriented programming languages and compilation. She has developed technologies and tools underlying the implementation of a range of programming languages: accurate and efficient points-to analysis for C, C++ and Java, analysis, compilation and optimizing Java bytecode in her customizable, extensible Java compilation framework, exploring analyses and language extensions for the premier aspect-oriented language AspectJ, and easily extensible compilation for MATLAB and VM tools for scientific and data analytics languages.

The Members of the 2019 Dahl-Nygaard Award Committee are:

     Sophia Drossopoulou (chair)

     Camil Demetrescu

     Erik Ernst

     Peter Müller

     Tijs van der Storm

The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prizes are named for Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, two pioneers in the area of programming and simulation. Their foundational work on object-oriented programming, made concrete in the Simula language, is one of the most important inventions in software engineering. Their key ideas were expressed already around 1965, but took over 20 years to be absorbed and appreciated by the broader software community. After that, object-orientation has profoundly transformed the landscape of software design and development techniques. It was a great loss to our community that both Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard passed away in 2002. In remembrance of their scholarship and enthusiastic encouragement of young researchers, in 2004 AITO established a prize to be awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential for following in the footsteps of these two pioneers.

AITO (Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of object technology. As of January 2015, it has 46 members and is registered in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Current President of AITO is Professor Eric Jul. For further information, visit www.aito.org.