This annual award is presented to individuals who have contributed dedicated and important service to the software engineering community. The award typically goes to a single person but can also be assigned to multiple people for joint contributions.
Recipients receive a plaque engraved with their name and signed by the chair of SIGSOFT and share a $1000 honorarium. The award is presented by the SIGSOFT chair at ICSE during ICSE's award presentation session. The award recipient(s) each receive support for travel to ICSE up to $2500 within their home continent and up to $3000 outside their home continent, including airfare, hotel, and conference registration for ICSE.
The selection committee solicits nominations from the software engineering community in a variety of ways including announcements in SIGSOFT's newsletter, Software Engineering Notes, and postings on appropriate newsgroups and websites. The committee considers all external nominations in the context of the nominees' specific and general service contributions to the overall software engineering community. The selection committee shall have the option to decline to make an award in a given year, if no suitable nominations are presented.
Criteria that the committee considers in evaluating nominations include:
To submit a nomination for the award, please use the awards nomination portal. Nominations are due no later than January 15 of each year. Among other details, the nominator needs to submit the following through the portal:
The nominator also needs to upload up to 3 support letters (200-300 words will be sufficient for each support letter, although longer statements of support are of course welcome). Each support letter must include the following sentence: "To the best of my knowledge, the candidate I am endorsing has not committed any action that violates the ACM Code of Ethics and ACM's Core Values."
If you have questions about this award, please contact sigsoft-service-award (at) acm (dot) org.
| 2022 | Joanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo, for sustained, outstanding service to the software engineering community and enabling a research environment in software engineering world-wide that is equitable, diverse and inclusive |
| 2021 | Tao Xie, Peking University, for outstanding service contributions to the software engineering community, including substantial activities on SIGSOFT history, broadening participation in software engineering, and successful chairing of technical events |
| 2020 | Nenad Medvidović |
| 2019 | Matt Dwyer |
| 2018 | David S. Rosenblum |
| 2017 | Laura Dillon |
| 2016 | Martin Glinz |
| 2015 | Bashar Nuseibeh |
| 2014 | Leon Osterweil |
| 2013 | Wilhelm Schäfer |
| 2012 | Alexander Wolf |
| 2011 | Jeff Kramer |
| 2010 | Mary Lou Soffa |
| 2009 | Stuart Zweben |
| 2008 | John C. Knight |
| 2007 | David Notkin |
| 2006 | Carlo Ghezzi |
| 2005 | Richard N. Taylor |
| 2004 | Will Tracz |
| 2003 | Axel van Lamsweerde |
| 2002 | Lori Clarke |
| 2001 | Kouichi Kishida |
| 2000 | Marvin Zelkowitz |
| 1999 | Bill Riddle |
| 1998 | Bruce Barnes |
| 1997 | Peter Neumann |
| 1996 | Rick Adrion |
| 1995 | Tony Wasserman |