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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2016 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing Call for Nominations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000. The past recipients of the IEEE TCSC award of excellence are: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Professor Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012, Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, Yves Robert (UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2014, and Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2015. Further details about the award can be found at the IEEE TCSC website: https://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/award_for_excellence Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be submitted via email to tcsc-awards@xxxxxxxxxxx. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements as well as significance and impact. (Max 2 page length) 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC and its community activities. (Max 2 page length) 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC and its community. The endorsement letters should be included in the nomination package. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: February 01, 2016 Result Notification: March 01, 2016 Award Selection Note: The award will presented at the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2016)to be held in Cartagena, Columbia from May 16 to 19, 2016. The winner should be available to receive the award in person and present a keynote talk at the CCGrid 2016 conference. For more information about the conference please see https://ccgrid2016.uniandes.edu.co. Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Executive Committee. The selection committee for 2016 is composed of: Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University, USA Ian Foster, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, USA Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University, USA Yves Robert, UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Chairs: Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu) Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy (Email: beniamino.dimartino at unina dot it) -- Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology Guest Research Faculty Math & Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ |
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