2015
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock D. Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations (Awarded at: VIS 2025) 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467191
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Stef van den Elzen, Danny Holten, Jorik Blaas, Jarke J. van Wijk Reducing Snapshots to Points: A Visual Analytics Approach to Dynamic Network Exploration (Awarded at: VIS 2025) 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468078
2014
11-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Peter Lindstrom Fixed-Rate Compressed Floating-Point Arrays (Awarded at: VIS 2025) 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346458
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hendrik Strobelt, Romain Vuillemot, Hanspeter Pfister UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets (Awarded at: VIS 2024) 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346248
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Dominik Sacha, Andreas Stoffel, Florian Stoffel, Bum Chul Kwon, Geoffrey Ellis, Daniel A. Keim Knowledge Generation Model for Visual Analytics (Awarded at: VIS 2024) 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346481
2013
12-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Ross T. Whitaker, Mahsa Mirzargar, Robert M. Kirby Contour Boxplots: A Method for Characterizing Uncertainty in Feature Sets from Simulation Ensembles (Awarded at: VIS 2025) 10.1109/TVCG.2013.143
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Matthew Brehmer, Tamara Munzner A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks (Awarded at: VIS 2023) 10.1109/TVCG.2013.124
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Nivan Ferreira, Jorge Poco, Huy T. Vo, Juliana Freire, Cláudio T. Silva Visual Exploration of Big Spatio-Temporal Urban Data: A Study of New York City Taxi Trips (Awarded at: VIS 2023) 10.1109/TVCG.2013.226
2012
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Michael Sedlmair, Miriah Meyer, Tamara Munzner Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks (Awarded at: VIS 2022) 10.1109/TVCG.2012.213
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study (Awarded at: VIS 2022) 10.1109/TVCG.2012.219
2011
13-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Thomas Torsney-Weir, Ahmed Saad, Torsten Möller, Hans-Christian Hege, Britta Weber, Jean-Marc Verbavatz, Steven Bergner Tuner: Principled Parameter Finding for Image Segmentation Algorithms Using Visual Response Surface Exploration (Awarded at: VIS 2024) 10.1109/TVCG.2011.248
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, Jeffrey Heer D3: Data-Driven Documents (Awarded at: VIS 2021) 10.1109/TVCG.2011.185
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Alan M. MacEachren, Anuj Jaiswal, Anthony C. Robinson, Scott Pezanowski, Alexander Savelyev, Prasenjit Mitra, Xiao Zhang, and Justine Blanford SensePlace2: GeoTwitter analytics support for situational awareness (Awarded at: VIS 2021) 10.1109/VAST.2011.6102456
2010
14-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Lingyun Yu, Konstantinos Efstathiou, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg Efficient Structure-Aware Selection Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Visualizations with 2DOF Input (Awarded at: VIS 2024) 10.1109/TVCG.2012.217
13-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Min Chen, Heike Leitte An Information-theoretic Framework for Visualization (Awarded at: VIS 2023) 10.1109/TVCG.2010.132
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Edward Segel, Jeffrey Heer Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data (Awarded at: VIS 2020) 10.1109/TVCG.2010.179
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Jaegul Choo, Hanseung Lee, Jaeyeon Kihm, and Haesun Park iVisClassifier: An interactive visual analytics system for classification based on supervised dimension reduction (Awarded at: VIS 2020) 10.1109/VAST.2010.5652443
2009
14-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Maarten H. Everts, Henk Bekker, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink, Tobias Isenberg Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data (Awarded at: VIS 2023) 10.1109/TVCG.2009.138
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Tamara Munzner A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation (Awarded at: VIS 2019) 10.1109/TVCG.2009.111
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Christopher Collins, Fernanda B. Viegas, and Martin Wattenberg Parallel tag clouds to explore and analyze faceted text corpora (Awarded at: VIS 2019) 10.1109/VAST.2009.5333443
2008
14-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Attila Gyulassy, Peer-Timo Bremer, Bernd Hamann, and Valerio Pascucci A practical approach to Morse-Smale complex computation: Scalability and generality (Awarded at: VIS 2022) 10.1109/TVCG.2008.110
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
George G. Robertson, Roland Fernandez, Danyel Fisher, Bongshin Lee, John T. Stasko Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization (Awarded at: VIS 2018) 10.1109/TVCG.2008.125
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko Spatio-temporal Aggregation for Visual Analysis of Movements (Awarded at: VIS 2018) 10.1109/VAST.2008.4677356
2007
15-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Christoph Garth, Florian Gerhardt, Xavier Tricoche, Hans Hagen Efficient Computation and Visualization of Coherent Structures in Fluid Flow Applications (Awarded at: VIS 2022) 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70551
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, Frank van Ham, Jesse Kriss, Matt McKeon ManyEyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale (Awarded at: VIS 2017) 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70577
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
John Stasko, Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu, Kanyupriya Singhal Jigsaw: Supporting Investigative Analysis through Interactive Visualization 10.1109/VAST.2007.4389006
2006
15-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Marco Tarini, Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Montani Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization (Awarded at: VIS 2021) 10.1109/TVCG.2006.115
10-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Danny Holten Hierarchical edge bundles: Visualization of adjacency relations in hierarchical data (Awarded at: VIS 2016) 10.1109/TVCG.2006.147
10-Years VAST Test-of-Time Award
Jerry Alan Fails, Amy Karlson, Layla Shahamat, Ben Shneiderman A Visual Interface for Multivariate Temporal Data: Finding Patterns of Events Across Multiple Histories (Awarded at: VIS 2016) 10.1109/VAST.2006.261421
2005
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Leland Wilkinson, Anushka Anand, Robert L. Grossman Graph-theoretic scagnostics (Awarded at: VIS 2025) 10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532142
15-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Jarke J. van Wijk
The Value of Visualization
(Awarded at: VIS 2020)
10.1109/VISUAL.2005.1532781
Follow-up journal paper:
Jarke J. van Wijk
Views on Visualization
10.1109/TVCG.2006.80
2004
15-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Hamish Carr, Jack Snoeyink, Michiel van de Panne Simplifying Flexible Isosurfaces Using local Geometric Measures (Awarded at: VIS 2019) 10.1109/VISUAL.2004.96
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Mohammad Ghoniem, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Philippe Castagliola A Comparison of the Readability of Graphs Using Node-Link and Matrix-Based Representations (Awarded at: VIS 2024) 10.1109/INFVIS.2004.1
2003
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner Interactive hierarchical dimension ordering, spacing and filtering for exploration of high dimensional datasets (Awarded at: VIS 2023) 10.1109/INFVIS.2003.1249015
15-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Jens H. Krüger, Rüdiger Westermann Acceleration techniques for GPU-based volume rendering Authors (Awarded at: VIS 2018) 10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250384
2002
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Catherine Plaisant, Jesse Grosjean, Benjamin B Bederson SpaceTree: supporting exploration in large node link tree, design evolution and empirical evaluation (Awarded at: VIS 2022) 10.1109/INFVIS.2002.1173148
15-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Valerio Pascucci, Kree Cole-McLaughlin Efficient computation of the topology of level sets (Awarded at: VIS 2017) 10.1109/VISUAL.2002.1183774
2001
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Ben Shneiderman, Martin Wattenberg
Ordered Treemap Layouts
(Awarded at: VIS 2021)
10.1109/INFVIS.2001.963283
Follow-up journal paper:
Benjamin B. Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, Martin Wattenberg
Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies
ACM TOG 21(4):833-854, 2002
10.1145/571647.571649
2000
25-Years SciVis Test-of-Time Award
Vivek Verma, David L. Kao, Alex Pang A flow-guided streamline seeding strategy (Awarded at: VIS 2025) 10.1109/VISUAL.2000.885690
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan
Polaris: a system for query, analysis and visualization of multi-dimensional relational databases
(Awarded at: VIS 2020)
10.1109/INFVIS.2000.885086
Follow-up journal paper:
Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan
Polaris: a system for query, analysis and visualization of multi-dimensional relational databases
10.1109/2945.981851
1999
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
Ying-Huey Fua, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner Hierarchical parallel coordinates for exploration of large datasets (Awarded at: VIS 2024) 10.1109/VISUAL.1999.809866
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Jarke J. Van Wijk, Edward R. Van Selow Cluster and calendar based visualization of time series data (Awarded at: VIS 2019) 10.1109/INFVIS.1999.801851
1998
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
Hugues Hoppe Smooth view-dependent level-of-detail control and its application to terrain rendering (Awarded at: VIS 2023) 10.1109/VISUAL.1998.745282
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Ed Huai-hsin Chi, John T. Riedl An Operator Interaction Framework For Visualization Systems (Awarded at: VIS 2018) 10.1109/INFVIS.1998.729560
1997
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
Mark Duchaineau, Murray Wolinsky, David E. Sigeti, Mark C. Miller, Charles Aldrich, Mark B. Mineev-Weinstein ROAMing terrain: Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes (Awarded at: VIS 2022) 10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663860
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space (Awarded at: VIS 2017) 10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636792
1996
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
William J. Schroeder, Kenneth M. Martin, William E. Lorensen
The Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics and Visualization
(Awarded at: VIS 2021)
10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567752
Follow-up book:
Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen
The Visualization Toolkit: an Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics
ISBN: 978-1930934191
20-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
Steven F. Roth, Peter Eucas, Jeffrey A. Senn, Cristina C. Gomberg, Michael B. Burks, Philip J. Stroffolino, John A. Kolojejchick, Carolyn Dunmire Visage: a user interface environment for exploring information (Awarded at: VIS 2016) 10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559210
1995
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
Allen R. Martin, Matthew O. Ward High Dimensional Brushing for Interactive Exploration of Multivariate Data (Awarded at: VIS 2020) 10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485139
21-Years InfoVis Test-of-Time Award
James A. Wise, James J. Thomas, Kelly Pennock, David Lantrip, Marc Pottier, Anne Schur, Vern Crow Visualizing the non-visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents (Awarded at: VIS 2016) 10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528686
1994
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
Stephen Marschner, Richard Lobb An evaluation of reconstruction filters for volume rendering (Awarded at: VIS 2019) 10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346331
1993
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
Roger Crawfis, Nelson L. Max Texture splats for 3D scalar and vector field visualization (Awarded at: VIS 2018) 10.1109/VISUAL.1993.398877
1992
25-Years VIS Test-of-Time Award
Thierry Delmarcelle, Lambertus Hesselink Visualization of second order tensor fields and matrix data 10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235193