ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award

ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award
ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award
Awarded for	Humanitarian contributions within computer science and informatics
Country	New York, (United States)
Presented by	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Reward(s)	US $5,000
First awarded	1999
Last awarded	2022
Website	awards.acm.org/lawler

The ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award is awarded every two or three years by the Association for Computing Machinery to an individual or a group of individuals who have made a significant contribution to the use of information technology for humanitarian purposes in a wide range of social domains.^[1]^[2] It is named after the computer scientist Eugene Lawler.^[3] The award includes a financial reward of US$5,000.^[4]

Recipients

Year	Recipients	Citation
1999	Antonia Stone	For her role as founder of Playing to Win and CTCNet
2001	John Blitch	For his leadership in the prior development and rapid deployment of the urban search and rescue robots used after the September 11 attacks
2003	Patrick Ball	for his leadership in the creation of open source software
2005	Ernest Siva, Solomon Mbuguah, Albrecht Ehrensperger	For their contributions to the Nakuru Local Urban Observatory project in Kenya
2007	Randy Wang	For founding and leading the Digital Study Hall Project
2009	Gregory Abowd^[5]	For his work on how advanced information technologies can be used in homes and schools to support people with autism
2012	Johannes Schöning,^[6] Thomas Bartoschek^[7]	For their contributions to GI@School (Geoinformatics at Schools), a program that encourages young people to develop a fascination for computer science and computer science research
2014	Robin Murphy^[8]	For her pioneering work in humanitarian disaster response through search and rescue robotics
2016	Ken Banks	For developing FrontlineSMS, using mobile technology and text messaging to empower people to share information, organize aid, and reconnect communities during crises.
2018	Meenakshi Balakrishnan	For research, development, and deployment of cost-effective embedded-system and software solutions addressing mobility and education challenges of the visually impaired in the developing world.
2020	Richard Anderson	For developing a range of innovative applications in health, education, the internet, and financial services, benefiting underserved communities around the globe.
2022	Jelani Nelson	For founding and developing AddisCoder, a nonprofit organization which teaches programming to underserved students from all over Ethiopia.