Prize History

Citation

The 2023 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software is awarded to Field Van Zee and Devin Matthews for the development of BLIS, a portable open-source software framework that facilitates rapid instantiation of high-performance BLAS and BLAS-like operations targeting modern CPUs.

Selection Committee

• Robert Falgout (Chair)
• Ann Almgren
• Andrew Knyazev
• Haesun Park
• Garth Wells

Citation

The 2019 James Wilkinson Prize is awarded to Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah for the creation of Julia, an innovative environment for the creation of high-performance tools that enable the analysis and solution of computational science problems.

Selection Committee

• Jorge Moré (Chair)
• Sven Hammarling
• Michael Heroux
• Randall LeVeque
• Katherine Yelick

Citation

The 2015 James Wilkinson Prize is awarded to Patrick E. Farrell, Simon W. Funke, David A. Ham, and Marie E. Rognes for the development of dolfin-adjoint, a package which automatically derives and solves adjoint and tangent linear equations from high-level mathematical specifications of finite element discretizations of partial differential equations.

Selection Committee

• Maurice Cox
• Mike Deward
• Jorge Moré

2011 Andreas Waechter and Carl D. Laird for IPOPT

2007 Wolfgang Bangerth, Guido Kanschat, and Ralf Hatmann for deal.II

2003 Jonathan Shewchuk for Triangle

1999 Matteo Frigo and Steven Johnson for FFTW

1995 Chris Bischof and Alan Carle for ADIFOR 2.0

1991 Linda Petzold for DASS