Awards and Honors
- Named an IBM Fellow (1963)
- Awarded W.W. McDowell Award (1967)
- Received National Medal of Science (1975)
- Awarded ACM Turing Award (1977)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
- Awarded degree honoris causa from the Université Henri Poincaré (1989)
- Awarded Draper Prize (1993)
- Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow Award (1997)
- Asteroid 6830 Johnbackus named in his honor (June 1, 2007) †
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