Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing winners by year

PODC and DISC · Science prize · usually Jun or Jul · next expected Jun 2027

Winners

20261 winner

Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed ApproximationAtish Das Sarma, Stephan Holzer, Liah Kor, Amos Korman, Danupon Nanongkai, Gopal Pandurangan, David Peleg, Roger WattenhoferSource ↗

20251 winner

What Can Be Computed Locally?Moni Naor, Larry StockmeyerSource ↗

20241 winner

Time is Not a HealerNicola Santoro, Peter WidmayerSource ↗

20233 winners

Completeness Theorems for Non-Cryptographic Fault-Tolerant Distributed ComputationMichael Ben-Or, Shafi Goldwasser, Avi WigdersonSource ↗

Multiparty Unconditionally Secure ProtocolsDavid Chaum, Claude Crépeau, Ivan DamgårdSource ↗

Verifiable Secret Sharing and Multiparty Protocols with Honest MajorityTal Rabin, Michael Ben-OrSource ↗

20222 winners

Safe Memory Reclamation for Dynamic Lock-Free Objects Using Atomic Reads and WritesMaged M. MichaelSource ↗

The Repeat Offender Problem: A Mechanism for Supporting Dynamic-Sized, Lock-Free Data StructuresMaurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, Mark MoirSource ↗

20211 winner

CCS Expressions, Finite State Processes, and Three Problems of EquivalenceParis C. Kanellakis, Scott A. SmolkaSource ↗

About this award

For outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing whose significance has been evident for at least a decade.

Edition	Announced	Winners	Source
2026		1
2025		1
2024		1
2023		3
2022		2
2021		1

The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Jun or Jul); it changes when PODC and DISC announces one.

New winnersSep 25, 2026Editions 2021 to 2026 loaded with 9 winners; the 2026 edition named 1 paper.

Award addedSep 25, 2026Now tracked: For outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing whose significance has been evident for at least a decade.