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> The 2010 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.
> For details see http://www.podc.org/dijkstra/
>
> Nominations deadline: June 1, 2010.
>
> The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is named for
> Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002), a pioneer in the area of distributed
> computing. His foundational work on concurrency, semaphores, mutual
> exclusion, deadlock, finding shortest paths in graphs,
> fault-tolerance, self-stabilization, among many other contributions
> comprises one of the most important supports upon which the field of
> distributed computing is built. No other individual has had a larger
> influence on research in principles of distributed computing.
>
> The prize is given for outstanding papers 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 includes an award of $2000.
>
> The Prize is sponsored jointly by the ACM Symposium on Principles of
> Distributed Computing (PODC) and the EATCS Symposium on Distributed
> Computing (DISC). This award is presented annually, with the
> presentation taking place alternately at ACM PODC and EATCS DISC -
> this year it will be presented at PODC 2010. The winners of the award
> will share the cash award, and each winning author will be presented
> with a plaque. An announcement of each year's prize recipient(s) will
> be included in the ACM PODC or EATCS DISC proceedings of that year,
> describing the paper's lasting contributions.
>
>
> Nominations and Eligibility
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> Nominations may be made by any member of the scientific community.
> Each nomination must identify the paper being nominated and include a
> few paragraphs (approximately 400 words) justifying the nomination.
> 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 theory of distributed computing
> community, and as long as the year of the original publication is at
> least ten years prior to the year in which the award is given.
>
> Papers authored or co-authored by members of the Award Committee will
> not be eligible for consideration. Members of the Award Committee will
> be especially sensitive to conflict-of-interests issues if papers by
> former students or close colleagues are nominated.
>
> Please send your nomination to the Co-Chairs of the Award Committee,
> Nancy Lynch ([log in to unmask]) and/or Alex Shvartsman
> ([log in to unmask]). Please mind that the nominations deadline is June
> 1, 2010.
>
>
> Selection Process
> -----------------
> Although the Award Committee is encouraged to consult with the
> distributed computing community at large, the Award Committee is
> solely responsible for the selection of the winner of the award. The
> prize may be shared by more than one paper. All matters relating to
> the selection process that are not specified here are left to the
> discretion of the Award Committee.
>
>
> Past Winners
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>
> 2009: Joseph Halpern and Yoram Moses for "Knowledge and Common
> Knowledge in a Distributed Environment,"
> in Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of
> Distributed Computing (PODC'84) pp. 50--61, 1984, and in the Journal
> of the ACM (JACM, 37:3).
>
> 2008: Baruch Awerbuch and David Peleg for
> "Sparse Partitions,"
> in Proceedings of the 31st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer
> Science (FOCS), 503-513, October 1990.
>
> 2007: Cynthia Dwork , Nancy Lynch and Larry Stockmeyer for
> "Consensus in the presence of partial synchrony",
> Journal of the ACM, Vol. 35, No. 2, April, 1988.
>
> 2006: John M. Mellor-Crummey and Michael L. Scott for
> "Algorithms for scalable synchronization on shared-memory
> multiprocessors",
> ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 9(1), 1991.
>
> 2005: Marshal Pease , Robert Shostak and Leslie Lamport for
> "Reaching agreement in the presence of faults",
> Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery, April, 1980,
> 27(1):228-234.
>
> 2004: R. G. Gallager , P. A. Humblet and P. M. Spira for
> "A Distributed Algorithm for Minimum-Weight Spanning Trees",
> ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, January 1983,
> 5(1):66-77.
>
> 2003: Maurice Herlihy for
> "Wait-Free Synchronization",
> ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, January 1991,
> 13(1):124-149.
>
> 2002: Edsger W. Dijkstra for
> "Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control",
> Communications of the ACM, 1974, 17(11):643-644.
>
> 2001: Michael J. Fischer , Nancy A. Lynch and Michael S. Paterson for
> "Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process",
> Journal of the ACM, April 1985, 32(2):374-382.
>
> 2000: Leslie Lamport for
> "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System",
> Communications of the ACM, July 1978, 21(7):558-565.
>
>
> Award Committee 2010
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> Nancy Lynch, Co-Chair MIT
> Alex Shvartsman, Co-Chair University of Connecticut
> James Anderson Univ. of North Carolina
> James Aspnes Yale University
> Pierre Fraigniaud CNRS, University of Paris Sud
> Rachid Guerraoui EPFL
> Maurice Herlihy Brown University
>
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