Knut Award

Gary Miller presents the 2008 Volker Strassen Prize

The Knut Prize ( Eng. Donald E. Knuth Prize ) is an award awarded since 1996 for a special contribution to the development of the fundamentals of computer science, named after the American mathematician and author of books on the theory of computer systems Donald Knut . The prize is awarded every one and a half years and is accompanied by a cash reward of $ 5,000.

The award is organized by the ACM and IEEE organizations, more specifically, the ACM SIGACT ( Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computing Theory ) and IEEE TCMFC ( Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing ) interest groups. Awarding takes place alternately at the STOC ( Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing ) and FOCS ( Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science ) conferences, which are among the most prestigious conferences in the field of the theory of computing systems. Unlike the Gödel Prize, the Donald Knuth Prize is awarded not for a separate work, but for a general contribution to the development of the fundamentals of computer science.