AITO
Dahl-Nygaard
The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize
In 2004, AITO established an annual prize in the name of the Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard to honor their pioneering work on object-orientation. See the new statutes of the prize for the award process approved on October 2021.
The prizes are named after Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, whose pioneering conceptual and technical work in the sixties shaped that view of programming and modeling which is now known as object-orientation.
One prize is awarded to a junior researcher (who has obtained the PhD degree at most 7 years before the award year, excluding any parental leave), and one prize to a senior researcher. The senior researcher should have made a significant long-term contribution to the field in research or engineering. The junior researcher should have made a promising contribution to the field through a paper, a thesis, or a prototype implementation.
Call for Dahl Nygaard Award Nominations 2024
Please fill out this form to nominate a candidate for this years prize.
Recipients of the Prizes
2023, Seattle
Sophia Drosspoulou (senior prize), and Heather Miller (junior prize
2022, Berlin
Dan Ingalls(senior prize), and Magnus Madsen (junior prize)
2021, Aarhus
Kim Bruce (senior prize), and Karim Ali (junior prize)
Jan Vitek (senior prize), and Jonathan Bell (junior prize)
Laurie Hendren (senior prize), and Ilya Sergey (junior prize)
Lars Bak (senior prize), and Guoqing Harry Xu (junior prize)
Gilad Bracha (senior prize), and Ross Tate (junior prize)
James Noble (senior prize), and Emina Torlak (junior prize)
Bjarne Stroustrup (senior prize), and Alexander J. Summers (junior prize)
William Cook (senior prize), Robert France (senior prize), and Tudor Gîrba (junior prize)
Oscar Nierstrasz (senior prize) and Matthew Parkinson (junior prize)
Gregor Kiczales (senior prize) and Tobias Wrigstad (junior prize)
Craig Chambers (senior prize) and Atsushi Igarashi (junior prize)
Doug Lea (senior prize) and Erik Ernst (junior prize)
Akinori Yonezawa (senior prize) and Wolfgang De Meuter (junior prize)
Luca Cardelli (senior prize) and Jonathan Aldrich (junior prize)
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and (posthumously) John Vlissides
Bertrand Meyer (senior prize) and Gail Murphy (junior prize)