ResearchBib Share Your Research, Maximize Your Social Impacts
Sign for Notice Everyday Sign up >> Login

NOMI 2012 - 2012 IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing: A Call for Nominations

Date2012-02-28

Deadline2012-02-10

VenueOnline, Online Online

Keywords

Website

Topics/Call fo Papers

2012 IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing: A Call for Nominations

The 2012 IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing
A Call for Nominations

The IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing is presented to an individual for his/her 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 medal and an honorarium of $1000. In the past, the award as IEEE Medal of Excellence, were awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, Professor William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, and Professor Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011.
Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. Nomination shall be submitted online at the following site: http://tcsc.unina2.it/awards
A nomination should include 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.
4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC, its mission and its activities.
5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers.
Please provide the names, affiliation, and addresses (email) of your designated endorsers for your nomination. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC community. The complete nomination data and endorsement letters shall be submitted by the deadline.
Important Dates:
- Nomination Deadline: Feb 10, 2012
- Results Notification: Feb 28, 2012
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.
Award Presentation Note: The award will presented at the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012) to be held in Ottawa, Canada from May 13-16, 2012. The winner should be available to receive the award in person and present a keynote talk at the CCGrid 2012 conference. For more information about the conference please see http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012/.
Award Committee Co-Chairs:
* Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
(Email: beniamino.dimartino AT unina.it)
* Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA
(Email: parashar AT rutgers.edu)

Last modified: 2012-01-12 12:44:01