Established in 1998 by the gift of Janet Holden Adams, a long-time
supporter of computer science at Vassar, this prize is awarded for
excellence in the study of computer science and for outstanding
participation in the activities of the department. The recipients
shall be named each spring by the faculty of the Department of
Computer Science. Their names shall be announced at the Vassar
Annual Prize Ceremony
| Year | Students |
| 1999 | Lisa Smith Garland |
| 2000 | Dana Kent Tenneson |
| 2001 | Jessica Sarah McMackin |
| 2002 | Shafat Zamon |
| 2003 | Mohammed Adeel Saleem |
| 2004 | Benjamin T. Stull |
| 2005 | Joy Wanja Kamunyori |
| 2006 | Miles Clark Huffman |
| 2007 | Patrick George Litterst |
| 2008 | Nikki Wiles |
| 2009 | Gabriela Irina Dumitrescu |
| 2010 | Tobias A. Fox |
| 2011 | Stephen Thomas Matysik |
| 2012 | Evan Christopher Sheffield |
| 2013 | Mark E. Adamo |
| 2013 | Kavan B. McEachren |
| 2014 | Miguel David Salcedo |
| 2014 | Carl Chen |
| 2014 | Maxwell J. Hoffman |
| 2014 | Matthew Aaron Cember |
| 2015 | Sandra Helene Miller |
| 2016 | Timothy Lee Brown |
| 2016 | Michael Scott Saugstad |
| 2017 | Macall Conroy McQueen |
| 2017 | Nathaniel Lee Green |
| 2018 | George Doughan Whiteside |
| 2018 | Amy Cheng |
| 2018 | Alexandru Mahmoud |
| 2019 | Piper Yung-Tseng Yang |
| 2019 | Griffin Louis Berlstein |
| 2020 | Eve P. Coulibaly |
| 2020 | Junrui Liu |
| 2021 | Ryan A. Hornby |
| 2021 | Andrei-Cristian Stanciu |
| 2022 | Josephine K. Summersett |
| 2022 | Yuchong Lee |
| 2023 | Benjamin C. Holmes |
| 2024 | Benjamin Lee |
| 2025 | |
| 2006 | David Little prize for “Excellence in CS Research” |