The Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), together with the Oesterreichische Computergesellschaft (OCG) and the Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft (SI) (hereinafter referred to as the "participating societies"), awards an annual prize for an outstanding dissertation (GI Dissertation Prize). The dissertation must be in the field of computer science. This includes not only work that represents an advance in computer science, but also work from the applications of computer science in other disciplines and work that concerns the interactions between computer science and society.