Deadline: June 1st, 2006.
How to submit: send an e-mail nomination to dalia@microsoft.com. Each nomination must include a short paragraph (approximately 200 words) justifying the nomination.
Details about the award, and the list of past awarded papers, can be found in http://www.podc.org/dijkstra/.
The prize is given at each PODC to 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. Papers appearing in any conference proceedings or journal 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. An announcement of each year's prize recipient(s) will be included in the PODC proceedings of that year, describing the paper's lasting contributions.
For more information, please contact Dahlia Malkhi, PODC 2006 Program Chair.