Call for nominations of papers
for the
ACM SIGACT/SIGOPS Annual Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
The Edsger
W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is awarded for an outstanding paper
on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on
the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at
least a decade.
The prize is named for Edsger W. Dijsktra, a pioneer in the area of distributed
computing. The prize is presented at the
PODC conference (http://www.podc.org/podc2005/). However, papers appearing in any conference
proceedings or journals are eligible, as long as they have had a significant
impact on research areas of interest within the PODC community, and as long as
the year of publication is at least ten years prior to the year in which the
award is given.
The winning authors will share a cash award of $1,000, and each will be
presented with a plaque at PODC 2005. An announcement of the award recipient
will be included in the PODC 2005 proceedings.
The announcement will include a paragraph describing the paper's lasting
contributions.
Additional details about the award and the nomination instructions can be found
in http://www.podc.org/dijkstra/
Please send your nominations to James Aspnes, PODC 2005 program chair,
at aspnes@cs.yale.edu. The deadline is
Jim Anderson, UNC Chapel Hill
James Aspnes (chair), Yale University
Faith Ellen Fich, University of Toronto
Vassos Hadzilacos, University of Toronto
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