Awards

Peter J. Denning

Peter Denning has received 24 awards. He holds three professional society fellowships,

IEEE Fellow, for "contributions in virtual memory." (1982)
AAAS Fellow, for "contributions to computer system development and service to the profession." (1984)
ACM Fellow, inaugural group, for "For outstanding service to ACM in many capacities over many years -- including President, Council Member, Chairman of the Editorial Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Computing Surveys and Communications of the ACM, and for notable contributions to the computing profession as an author, editor, and communicator." (1993)

He holds five awards for technical contribution,

Southern Connecticut Science Fair Grand Award for "Algebraic Computer" (1959) (news clipping)
ACM Best System Paper (1968) for "The Working Set Model for Program Behavior" (PDF).
AFIPS Best Paper (1972) for "Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula and Operating Systems Principles"
SIGOPS Hall of Fame of seminal papers that most influenced operating system research (2005) for "The Working Set Model for Program Behavior". (Press release).
NSF Distinguished Education Fellow (2007). (Press releases).

six distinguished service awards,

six education awards,

Princeton University Engineering Association Outstanding Faculty Member Award (1971)
ACM SIGCSE Outstanding CS Educator Award (1999) (citation)
ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1996) (citation)
George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award (2002)
George Mason University, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Best Teacher(2002) (citation)
Commonwealth of Virginia Teaching Excellence Award (2003).

and three honorary degrees

He is the only person to hold 6 major ACM awards.

He also holds a Quality Customer Service Award for the CS office staff at George Mason University (1996).

7/18/07