We invite you to submit nominations for the inaugural SPAA Test-of-Time Award and SPAA Parallel Computing Award, given by the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA). The nomination deadline is August 1, 2022. More information about these awards can be found below as well as on the SPAA webpage.

Yan Gu and Julian Shun
SPAA Publicity Chairs

SPAA Test-of-Time Award

The SPAA Test-of-Time Award will recognize papers that have had a significant impact in the SPAA community and beyond. All regular papers that were published in a SPAA conference at least 10 years ago are eligible for the award.

Selection committee: The selection committee will consist of the SPAA Steering Committee and is headed by the Steering Committee Chair.

Nomination deadline: August 1, 2022.

Nominations will be submitted to the SPAA Steering Committee Chair at [log in to unmask] and must include:

- Name, address, and email address of the nominator
- The nominated paper
- A statement (at most 500 words) addressing why the paper should receive the award
- Up to three supporting letters from experts in the field

Self nominations are disallowed. Nominations by a Steering Committee member are allowed.

After the nomination deadline, the committee will then rank the nominated papers according to the following selection criteria:

- Impact of the paper within and outside of the community
- Scientific quality of the paper

and will make a decision by October 1. The committee may pick either exactly one paper or no paper at all, if it feels that none of the nominations has had sufficient impact. If a paper is selected, the Steering Committee Chair will contact the authors of that paper and invite them to give a plenary talk at next year’s SPAA conference.

Funding: No funding will be provided for the award, but the author giving the plenary talk will get a free registration and a honorarium to cover her/his travel expenses. The money for the honorarium will come from the registration fees of the current SPAA conference.

Award announcement: Each Test-of-Time Award will be published at the SPAA website and will be announced using standard mailing lists in the parallel and distributed computing communities.

Conflict of interest: The award committee will follow a conflict of interest policy that is consistent with that of ACM: http://awards.acm.org/conflict-of-interest.cfm.

SPAA Parallel Computing Award

The SPAA Parallel Computing Award will recognize a person either for a singular important result or for a career of accomplishments related to the SPAA community. However, it is not restricted to people who publish in SPAA, or a result that appeared in SPAA.

Selection committee: The selection committee will consist of the SPAA Steering Committee and is headed by the Steering Committee Chair.

Nomination deadline: August 1, 2022.

Nominations can be made for any individual of the parallel and distributed computing community by submitting a nomination letter including the following information to the SPAA Steering Committee Chair at [log in to unmask]:

- Name, address, and email address of the nominator
- The nominated person
- A statement (at most 500 words) addressing why the person should receive the award
- Up to three supporting letters from experts in the field

Self nominations are disallowed. Nominations by a Steering Committee member are allowed.

After the nomination deadline, the committee will then rank the candidates according to the following selection criteria:

- Impact of the publications within and outside of the community
- Scientific quality of the publications

and will make a decision by October 1. The committee may either pick exactly one candidate or no candidate at all, if it feels that none of the candidates has had a sufficient impact. If a candidate is selected, the Steering Committee Chair will contact her/him and invite her/him to give a plenary talk at next year’s SPAA conference. Candidates that have not been selected for the award but receive support from at least one committee member will be re-considered in the next year.

Funding: No funding will be provided for the award, but the winner will get a free registration and a honorarium to cover her/his travel expenses. The money for the honorarium will come from the registration fees of the current SPAA conference.

Award announcement: Each SPAA Parallel Computing Award will be published at the SPAA website and will be announced using standard mailing lists in the parallel and distributed computing communities.

Conflict of interest: The award committee will follow a conflict of interest policy that is consistent with that of ACM: http://awards.acm.org/conflict-of-interest.cfm.


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