Honorary degrees, special awards and distinctions
The yearly prize of Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (The Foundation for the
Finnish Culture) 1986.
Ph. D. h.c. Åbo Akademi 1988.
Ph. D. h.c., University of Oulu 1989.
Doctor Rerum Naturalium h.c., University of Szeged, Hungary, 1989.
Magnus Ehrnrooth prize of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1991.
Ph. D. h.c. in mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1992.
Doktor-Ingenieur Ehren halber (h.c.), TU Magdeburg, Germany, 1992.
"Professor of the Year" in Finland, 1994.
Festival conference "Important Results and Trends in Theoretical Computer
Science" on the occasion of 60th birthday, Graz, 1994.
Ph. D. h.c. in mathematics, State University of Latvia, Riga, 1994.
Listed among the top research leaders (top ten or top twelve) in Finland
by the Academy of Finland and the University Council of Finland 1993--97.
The yearly prize of the Nokia Foundation, 1998.
Honorary Professor of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, 1999.
Doctor Honoris Causa, TU Graz, 1999.
Academician, One of the Twelve Fellows in the Academy of Finland,
2001.
Festival Colloquium "Formal Languages" on the occasion of 70th birthday,
Turku, 2004.
EATCS Award, 2004.
The following books and journal issues have been dedicated to Arto Salomaa:
- T. Järvi, M. Steinby, A. Tietäväinen (eds) Studies in Honour of
Arto Kustaa Salomaa on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday. Ann. Univ.
Turkuensis, Ser. AI 186 (1984), 135 pp.
- A. Atanasiu, C. Calude (eds) Salodays in Theoretical Computer Science.
Romanian Academy, Hyperion XXI Press (1993), 182 pp.
- C. Calude, M. Lennon, H. Maurer (eds) Salodays in Auckland Proceedings.
The University of Auckland (1994), 109 pp.
- J. Karhumäki, H. Maurer, G. Rozenberg (eds) Results and Trends in
Theoretical Computer Science. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 812
(1994), x+443 pp.
- J. Karhumäki, A. Mateescu, G. Rozenberg (eds) Special Issue of
Fundamenta Informaticae 38 (1999), 221 pp.
- Cunsheng Ding (ed.) Special Issue on Cryptology of Information and
Computation 151, 1--2 (1999), 172 pp.
- Cunsheng Ding (ed.) Special Issue on Cryptography of Theoretical Computer
Science (1999), 256 pp.
- J. Karhumäki, H. Maurer, G. Paun, G. Rozenberg (eds) Jewels are
Forever. Springer-Verlag (1999), xxx+379 pp.
- J. Karhumäki, H. Maurer, G. Paun, G. Rozenberg (eds) Theory is
Forever. Springer-Verlag (2004), x+283 pp.
- J. Karhumäki, G. Rozenberg (eds) Insightful Theory, Special issue
of Theoretical Computer Science 330, No. 1 (2005), 191 pp.