J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
The James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software is awarded every four years to honor outstanding contributions in the field of numerical software. The award is named to commemorate the outstanding contributions of James H. Wilkinson in the same field.[1]
The prize was established by
Eligibility and selection criteria
Candidates must have worked in the field for at most 12 years after receiving their PhD as of January 1 of the award year. Breaks in continuity are allowed, and the prize committee may make exceptions. The award is given on the basis of:
- Clarity of the software implementation and documentation.
- Clarity of the paper accompanying the entry.
- Portability, reliability, efficiency and usability of the software implementation.
- Depth of analysis of the algorithm and the software.
- Importance of application addressed by the software.
- Quality of the test software[3]
Winners
1991
The first prize in 1991 was awarded to
1995
The 1995 prize was awarded to Chris Bischof and Alan Carle for ADIFOR 2.0, an
1999
The 1999 prize was awarded to Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson for FFTW, a C library for computing the discrete Fourier transform.
2003
The 2003 prize was awarded to
2007
The 2007 prize was awarded to Wolfgang Bangerth, Guido Kanschat, and Ralf Hartmann for
2011
Andreas Waechter (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) and Carl Laird (Texas A&M University) were awarded the 2011 prize for IPOPT, an object-oriented library for solving large-scale continuous optimization problems. It is freely available.[8]
2015
The 2015 prize was awarded to Patrick Farrell (University of Oxford), Simon Funke (Simula Research Laboratory), David Ham (Imperial College London), and Marie Rognes (Simula Research Laboratory) for the development of dolfin-adjoint, a package which automatically derives and solves adjoint and tangent linear equations from high-level mathematical specifications of finite element discretisations of partial differential equations.[9]
2019
The 2019 prize was awarded to
2023
The 2023 prize was awarded to Field Van Zee and Devin Matthews for the development of BLIS, a portable open-source software framework for instantiating high-performance BLAS-like dense linear algebra libraries on modern CPUs.[10][11]
See also
References
- ^ "The Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software 2015". NAG. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ^ a b "January Prize Spotlight: Jeff Bezanson, Steven L. Brunton, Jack Dongarra, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah". SIAM. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software".
- ^ "Software : StochSS". Engineering.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
- ^ "ADIFOR: Automatic Differentiation of Fortran Codes". Mcs.anl.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
- ^ "Triangle: A Two-Dimensional Quality Mesh Generator and Delaunay Triangulator". Cs.cmu.edu. 2005-07-28. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
- ^ "The deal.II Finite Element Library". Dealii.org. Archived from the original on 2012-06-08. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
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- ^ James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, SIAM · Prizes & Recognition · Major Prizes & Lectures.
- ^ "BLIS GitHub Repository".