AwardsECOOP 2026
Nominations for the 2026 Dahl-Nygaard junior and senior prizes
We are seeking nominations for the 2026 Dahl-Nygaard junior and senior prizes!
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Established by AITO in 2004, these annual prizes are named after Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, whose pioneering conceptual and technical work in the sixties shaped that view of programming and modeling which is now known as object-orientation.
The junior prize is awarded to a researcher who obtained the PhD degree at most 7 years before the award year, excluding any parental leave. The prize recognises a promising contribution to the field through a paper, a thesis, or a prototype implementation.
The senior prize is awarded to a researcher who has made a significant long-term contribution to the field in research or engineering.
The winners of both prizes will be given the opportunity of giving an invited talk at ECOOP 2026 in Brussels, Belgium.
Nominations are due by October 31 and should be made using this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EU0nkx22hoYbRSgClW5_gYYXITquykylTjPfztWtH6Q/
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
Dahl-Nygaard prize committee chair, 2026
Past recipients
2025, Bergen Mira Mezini (senior prize), and Amir Shaikhha (junior prize)
2024, Vienna Rachid Guerraoui (senior prize), and Alvin Cheung (junior prize)
2023, Seattle Sophia Drosspoulou (senior prize), and Heather Miller (junior prize)
2022, Berlin Dan Ingalls(senior prize), and Magnus Madsen (junior prize)
2021, Aarhus Kim Bruce (senior prize), and Karim Ali (junior prize)
2020, Berlin Jan Vitek (senior prize), and Jonathan Bell (junior prize)
2019, London Laurie Hendren (senior prize), and Ilya Sergey (junior prize)
2018, Amsterdam Lars Bak (senior prize), and Guoqing Harry Xu (junior prize)
2017, Barcelona Gilad Bracha (senior prize), and Ross Tate (junior prize)
2016, Rome James Noble (senior prize), and Emina Torlak (junior prize)
2015, Prague Bjarne Stroustrup (senior prize), and Alexander J. Summers (junior prize)
2014, Uppsala William Cook (senior prize), Robert France (senior prize), and Tudor Gîrba (junior prize)
2013, Montpellier Oscar Nierstrasz (senior prize) and Matthew Parkinson (junior prize)
2012, Beijing Gregor Kiczales (senior prize) and Tobias Wrigstad (junior prize)
2011, Lancaster Craig Chambers (senior prize) and Atsushi Igarashi (junior prize)
2010, Maribor Doug Lea (senior prize) and Erik Ernst (junior prize)
2009, Genoa David Ungar (senior prize)
2008, Paphos Akinori Yonezawa (senior prize) and Wolfgang De Meuter (junior prize)
2007, Berlin Luca Cardelli (senior prize) and Jonathan Aldrich (junior prize)
2006, Nantes Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and (posthumously) John Vlissides
2005, Glasgow Bertrand Meyer (senior prize) and Gail Murphy (junior prize)
