| 2017 | Pat Yongpradit, Chief Academic Officer for Code.org | Anthony D. Sabatelli, PhD, JD., registered patent attorney and partner at Dilworth IP. |
| 2016 | Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University | Dr. Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University |
| 2015 | Sep Kamvar, MIT Media Lab | Kim Bruce, Pomona College |
| 2014 | Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Mehran Sahami, Stanford University |
| 2013 | Fred Martin, UMass, Lowell | Thomas Cormen, Dartmouth College |
| 2012 | Ed Lazowska, U. Washington | Sally Fincher, Univ. of Kent |
| 2011 | Jane Prey, Microsoft Research | Stormy Peters, Mozilla Corp. |
| 2010 | Fran Allen, IBM Watson Lab | Alison Young, Univ. of Melbourne |
| 2009 | Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems | Jeannette Wing, Carnegie-Mellon |
| 2008 | Brian Kernighan, Princeton Univ. | Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State Univ. |
| 2007 | Andries Van Dam, Brown Univ. | Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State Univ. |
| 2006 | Lynn Stein, Olin College | Nancy Leveson, MIT |
| 2005 | Jim Kurose, UMass, Amherst | Matthias Felleisen, Northeastern Univ. |
| 2004 | David Gries, Cornell Univ. | Fred Martin, UMass, Lowell |
| 2003 | J. H. Conway, Princeton Univ. | Linda Stern, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2002 | Allen Tucker, Bowdoin College | Leslie Kaelbling, MIT |
| 2001 | Jon Bentley, Avaya Labs | Michael Goodrich, Johns Hopkins Univ. |
| 2000 | Doug Dykeman, IBM Research Division | Bob Aiken, Temple Univ. |
| 1999 | Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines | Andries Van Dam, Brown Univ. |
| 1998 | Lynn Stein, MIT | David Gries, Cornell Univ. |
| 1997 | Dan O'Reilly, Desktop Data Inc. | Justin Pearlman, Harvard University Medical School/Beth Israel Hospital |
| 1996 | Keith Barker, University of Connecticut | Jeff Oakes, Hartford Insurance Group |