Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Reward
The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."
Doctorate honoris causa from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being
United States National Academy of Engineering membership
Doctorate honoris causa from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
Fondazione Pistoletto prize
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Doctor of Science honoris causa from Lakehead University in Canada
