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ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award

This award is presented at each ICSE meeting to the author(s) of the paper from the ICSE meeting of 10 years ago that is judged to have had the most influence on the theory or practice of software engineering during the 10 years since its original publication.

The award is jointly sponsored by ACM/SIGSOFT and IEEE TCSE.

Recipients are given a plaque engraved with their names and signed by the General Chair of ICSE'N. The award is presented yearly by the ICSE'N general chair at ICSE during ICSE's award presentation session. The recipients are asked to give a presentation to the conference on their current views on software engineering.

Each year the current program committee for ICSE'N reviews the papers from ICSE'(N-10) and selects the paper they consider to have been the most influential paper during the previous 10 years. When more than one paper receives strong support, honorable mention awards are sometimes given as deemed appropriate.

Previous Recipients and title of most influential paper

1989 Marc J. Rochkind: The Source Code Control System, NCSE-1, 1975.
1990 William A. Wulf, Ralph L. London, Mary Shaw: An Introduction to the Construction and Verification of Alphard Programs, ICSE-2, 1976.
1991 David Parnas: Designing Software for Ease of Extension and Contraction, ICSE-3, 1978.
1992 Walter Tichy: Software Development Control Based on Module Interconnection, ICSE-4, 1979.
1993 Mark Weiser: Program Slicing, ICSE-5, 1981.
1994 Sol Greenspan, John Mylopoulos, Alex Borgida: Capturing More World Knowledge in the Requirements Specification, ICSE-6, 1982.
1995 David L. Parnas, Paul C. Clements, David M. Weiss: The Modular Structure of Complex Systems, ICSE-7, 1984.
1996 Sam Redwine Jr., William Riddle: Software Technology Maturation, ICSE-8, 1985.
1997 Lee Osterweil: Software Processes are Software Too, ICSE-9, 1987.
Manny Lehman: Process Models, Process Programs, Programming Support, ICSE-9, 1987.
1998 David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Aharon Shtul-Trauring: Statemate: A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems, ICSE-10, 1988.
1999 Dewayne Perry: The Inscape Environment, ICSE-11, 1989.
2000 No award.
2001 Robert Balzer: Tolerating Inconsistency, ICSE-13, 1991.
2002 David S. Rosenblum: Towards a Method of Programming with Assertions, ICSE-14, 1992.
2003 Bashar Nuseibeh, Jeff Kramer, Anthony Finkelstein: Expressing the Relationships between Multiple Views in Requirements Specification, ICSE-15, 1993.
2004 Robert Allen, David Garlan:  Formalizing Architectural Connection, ICSE-16, 1994.
2005 Michael Jackson, Pamela Zave:  Deriving Specifications from Requirements: An Example, ICSE-17, 1995.
2006 No Award.
2007 Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco and Giovanni Vigna: Designing Distributed Applications with Mobile Code Paradigms, ICSE-19, 1997.