Charles Babbage Premium

The Charles Babbage Premium was an annual award "for an outstanding paper on the design or use of electronic computers".

[1] It was initiated by the British Institution of Radio Engineers, which became the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers.

Winners have been announced in journals such as Nuclear Power,[4] Electronic Engineering,[5] British Communications and Electronics,[6] and the Software Engineering Journal.

[7] The Premium was named after the mathematician Charles Babbage FRS (1791–1871), inventor of the Analytical Engine, a design for an early mechanical computer.

This includes the IET Software Premium Award, the nearest equivalent to the Charles Babbage Premium Award.