The deadline for SPAA Parallel Computing Award, given by the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) was extended to October 1, 2022. More information about these awards can be found below as well as on the SPAA webpage.

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- A statement (at most 500 words) addressing why the paper should receive the award

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.

New Nomination deadline: October 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 November 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.