IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Sponsored by: IBM Corporation

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Nomination Deadline - July 1st

The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually 'for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology.' The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or entrepreneurial, and need not have been made immediately prior to the date of the award.

The medal is named in honor of the eminent mathematician, John von Neumann, whose work at the Institute for Advanced Study led to the building of the IAS binary stored-program computer in 1952. The IAS machine served as the model for IBM's first all electronic stored-program computer (the 701).

In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: achievements may be theoretical, technological, entrepreneurial, and need not have been made immediately prior to the date of the award, truly outstanding contributions in computer hardware, software or systems art, scope is the processing of information and includes the subject areas of computer architecture, base technologies, systems, languages, algorithms and protocols and application domains, work cited could have appeared in the form of publications, patents, products or simply general recognition by the profession that the individual cited is the agreed upon originator of the advance, overall strength of the nomination.

Recipient selection is administered through the IEEE Medals Council of the IEEE Awards Board.  It may be presented to an individual or group, up to two in number.

The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate and honorarium.