Harlan D. Mills Award

Harlan D. Mills Award is an annual award from the IEEE Computer Society created to honor Harlan Mills, a pioneer in software engineering.

The first award was presented in 1999, for "contributions to the theory and practice of the information sciences, [focused on] software engineering".^[1]^[2] The list of awardees is maintained on the IEEE website.^[1]

1999 David Parnas
2000 Barry Boehm
2001 Manny Lehman
2002 Jesse H. Poore
2003 Victor Basili
2004 Elaine Weyuker
2006 John C. Knight
2007 Bev Littlewood
2009 Bertrand Meyer
2011 John Rushby
2012 Lionel Briand
2014 Patrick Cousot and Radhia Cousot
2015 Gerard J. Holzmann
2016 Wolfram Schulte
2017 Pamela Zave
2018 Gail C. Murphy
2019 Mark Harman
2020 Nachiappan Nagappan
2021 Dieter Rombach
2022 Matthew B. Dwyer
2023 David Harel
2024 Premkumar Devanbu
2025 Bashar Nuseibeh

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v t e IEEE awards
Medals	Medal of Honor Edison Medal (career achievement) Founders Medal Alexander Graham Bell Medal (communications and networking) Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies Richard W. Hamming Medal (information technology) Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal (electrical engineering) James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal (materials science and device technologies) Robert N. Noyce Medal (microelectronics) Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications Medal in Power Engineering Simon Ramo Medal (systems engineering) John von Neumann Medal (computing) Lamme Medal (electrical or electronic power apparatus or systems, 1928–2002) Heinrich Hertz Medal (electromagnetics, 1988–2001) Medal for Engineering Excellence (1988–2004)
Technical field awards	Biomedical Engineering Award Cledo Brunetti Award (nanotechnology and miniaturization) Control Systems Award Electromagnetics Award Electronics Packaging Award Fourier Award for Signal Processing James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award Andrew S. Grove Award (solid-state technology) Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award Internet Award Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Richard Harold Kaufmann Award (industrial systems engineering) Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (electronic circuits and systems) Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award William E. Newell Power Electronics Award Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies (emerging technologies) Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits Frederik Philips Award (R&D management) Photonics Award Emanuel R. Piore Award (information processing systems) Judith A. Resnik Award (space engineering) Robotics and Automation Award Frank Rosenblatt Award (computational paradigms) Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award (standardization) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (nuclear and plasma engineering) Eric E. Sumner Award (communications technology) Undergraduate Teaching Award Nikola Tesla Award (power) Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (mid-career contributions) Transportation Technologies Award David Sarnoff Award (electronics, 1959–2016)
Other IEEE-level awards	Honorary Membership Corporate Innovation Recognition Richard M. Emberson Award (service to technical objectives of IEEE) Haraden Pratt Award (service to IEEE) Centennial Medal (1984 commemorative) W.R.G. Baker Award (outstanding paper, 1957–2015) Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (1981–2016) Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition (1986–2016)
Society-level awards	Taylor L. Booth Education Award (Computer Society) Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award (Computer Society) Eckert–Mauchly Award (Computer Society and ACM) Computer Entrepreneur Award (Computer Society) Computer Pioneer Award (Computer Society) Sidney Fernbach Award (Computer Society) Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (Computer Society) Tsutomu Kanai Award (Computer Society) Ken Kennedy Award (Computer Society and ACM) Knuth Prize (Computer Society and ACM SIGACT) W. Wallace McDowell Award (Computer Society) Harlan D. Mills Award (Computer Society) Software Process Achievement Award (Computer Society and SEI) J. J. Ebers Award (Electron Devices Society) Claude E. Shannon Award (Information Theory Society) Erwin Marx Award (Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society) John Tyndall Award (Photonics Society and OSA)

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