This was announced today: Bertrand Meyer is the Recipient of Software System Award for Impact on Software Quality. Most precisely, for designing and developing the Eiffel programming language, method and environment, embodying the Design by Contract approach to software development and other features that facilitate the construction of reliable, extendible and efficient software.

You can get the press release from: http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2007/eiffel.cfm

And you can digg it at: http://www.digg.com/programming/Eiffel_rewarded_for_the_ACM_Software_System_Award