Editing John von Neumann Theory Prize (section)

== List of recipients ==
* 2024 [[Jim Dai]]
* 2023 [[Christos Papadimitriou]] and [[Mihalis Yannakakis]]
* 2022 [[Vijay Vazirani]]
* 2021 [[Alexander Shapiro]]
* 2020 [[Adrian Lewis (mathematician)|Adrian Lewis]]
* 2019 [[Dimitris Bertsimas]] and [[Jong-Shi Pang]]
* 2018 [[Dimitri Bertsekas]] and [[John Tsitsiklis]]
** ''for contributions to Parallel and Distributed Computation as well as Neurodynamic Programming.''
* 2017 [[Donald Goldfarb]] and [[Jorge Nocedal]]
** ''for seminal contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear optimization over the past several decades.''
* 2016  [[Martin I. Reiman]] and [[Ruth J. Williams]]
** ''for seminal research contributions over the past several decades, to the theory and applications of “stochastic networks/systems” and their “heavy traffic approximations.”'' 
* 2015 [[Vašek Chvátal]]   and   [[Jean Bernard Lasserre]]
** ''for seminal and profound contributions to the theoretical foundations of optimization.''
* 2014 [[Nimrod Megiddo]]
**  ''for fundamental contributions across a broad range of areas of operations research and management science, most notably in linear programming, combinatorial optimization, and algorithmic game theory.''
* 2013 [[Michel Balinski]]
* 2012 [[George Nemhauser]] and [[Laurence Wolsey]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://plus.google.com/110359446005471294615/posts/TJkpqPCWDrd |title=INFORMS announcement |access-date=2012-10-04 |archive-date=2015-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101173222/https://plus.google.com/110359446005471294615/posts/TJkpqPCWDrd |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2011 [[Gérard Cornuéjols]], IBM University Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University's [[Tepper School of Business]]
** ''for his fundamental and broad contributions to discrete optimization including his deep research on balanced and ideal matrices, perfect graphs and cutting planes for mixed-integer optimization.''
* 2010 [[Søren Asmussen]] and [[Peter W. Glynn]]
* 2009 [[Yurii Nesterov]] and [[Yinyu Ye]]
* 2008 [[Frank Kelly (professor)|Frank Kelly]]
* 2007 [[Arthur F. Veinott, Jr.]]
** ''for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming and lattice programming.''
* 2006 [[Martin Grötschel]], [[László Lovász]] and [[Alexander Schrijver]]
** ''for their fundamental path-breaking work in combinatorial optimization.''
* 2005 [[Robert J. Aumann]]
** ''in recognition of his fundamental contributions to [[game theory]] and related areas''
* 2004 [[J. Michael Harrison]]
** ''for his profound contributions to two major areas of [[operations research]] and [[management science]]: [[stochastic network]]s and [[mathematical finance]].''
* 2003 [[Arkadi Nemirovski]] and [[Michael J. Todd (mathematician)|Michael J. Todd]]
** ''for their seminal and profound contributions in [[continuous optimization]]''.
* 2002 [[Donald Iglehart|Donald L. Iglehart]] and [[Cyrus Derman]]
** ''for their fundamental contributions to performance analysis and optimization of stochastic systems''
* 2001 [[Ward Whitt]]
** ''for his contributions to [[queueing theory]], [[applied probability]] and [[stochastic modelling]]''
* 2000 [[Ellis L. Johnson]] and [[Manfred W. Padberg]]
* 1999 [[R. Tyrrell Rockafellar]]
* 1998 [[Fred W. Glover]]
* 1997 [[Peter Whittle (mathematician)|Peter Whittle]]
* 1996 [[Peter C. Fishburn]]
* 1995 [[Egon Balas]]
* 1994 [[Lajos Takacs]]
* 1993 [[Robert Herman]]
* 1992 [[Alan J. Hoffman]] and [[Philip Wolfe (mathematician)|Philip Wolfe]]
* 1991 [[Richard E. Barlow]] and [[Frank Proschan]]
* 1990 [[Richard Karp]]
* 1989 [[Harry M. Markowitz]]
* 1988 [[Herbert A. Simon]]
* 1987 [[Samuel Karlin]]
* 1986 [[Kenneth J. Arrow]]
* 1985 [[Jack Edmonds]]
* 1984 [[Ralph Gomory]]
* 1983 [[Herbert Scarf]]
* 1982 [[Abraham Charnes]], [[William W. Cooper]], and [[Richard J. Duffin]]
* 1981 [[Lloyd Shapley]]
* 1980 [[David Gale]], [[Harold W. Kuhn]], and [[Albert W. Tucker]]
* 1979 [[David Blackwell]]
* 1978 [[John Forbes Nash Jr.|John F. Nash]] and [[Carlton E. Lemke]]
* 1977 [[Felix Pollaczek]]
* 1976 [[Richard Bellman]]
* 1975 [[George B. Dantzig]] ''for his work on [[linear programming]]''

There is also an [[IEEE John von Neumann Medal]] awarded by the [[IEEE]] annually "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology".