Editing Hal Abelson (section)

===Awards and honors===
* Designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in 1992, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education<ref name="fsfboard"/>
* 1992 Bose Award, the MIT School of Engineering teaching award<ref name="fsfboard"/>
* 1995 [[Taylor L. Booth Education Award]], given by [[IEEE Computer Society]], cited for his continued contributions to the pedagogy and teaching of introductory computer science<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/taylorbooth |title=Taylor L. Booth Education Award |publisher=[[IEEE Computer Society]] |access-date=March 28, 2011 |archive-date=January 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110001509/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/taylorbooth |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2011 [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for "his contribution to computing education, through his innovative advances in curricula designed for students pursuing different kinds of computing expertise, and for his leadership in the movement for open educational resources"<ref name=AwardACM2011>{{cite web |url=http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/abelson_4239273.cfm |title=Hal Abelson – Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award – United States – 2011 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |access-date=2013-10-11}}</ref>
* 2012 [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (ACM) [[SIGCSE]] Award for [[Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sigcse.org/programs/awards/outstanding |title=SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education |publisher=[[SIGCSE]] |access-date=June 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717072822/http://www.sigcse.org/programs/awards/outstanding |archive-date=July 17, 2012 }}</ref>