EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award (2012)
Prize donated by Microsoft Research Cambridge
The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award is an anual prize awarded to a PhD student from a European University whose thesis is regarded to be an exceptional, innovative contribution to knowledge in the systems area. "Systems" is interpreted broadly, and includes operating systems, distributed systems, real-time systems, systems aspects of databases, language runtimes, embedded systems, computer networks, etc. The winner receives €2000, which is awarded at the EuroSys conference. The prize is donated by Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Criteria for selection are the overall contribution to systems research in terms of scientific originality, scientific significance, scientific rigor, quality of the presentation and potential for practical application.
Nominations for the 2012 award – for students who have defended their PhD thesis after 1st September 2010 – are now open! You can find the submission site here.
Nominations can only be made by a student's PhD supervisor (or head of department). A nomination must include:
- The title and abstract of the dissertation;
- A copy of the dissertation itself (PDF);
- A (1 page) recommendation letter from the submitter (PDF); and
- The name of the institution and the date of the defense.
It may optionally include the names of up to three suggested external reviewers; and a PDF file containing supporting publications (recommended primarily if the dissertation is not written in English).
The deadline for nominations is 25th November 2011.
2012 Needham Award Review Committee:
| Ozalp Babaoglu | Università di Bologna | |
| Frank Bellosa | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | |
| Steven Hand (chair) | University of Cambridge | |
| Julia Lawall | University of Copenhagen | |
| Sape Mullender | Bell Labs | |
| Timothy Roscoe | ETH Zürich | |
| Marc Shapiro | INRIA & UPMC-LIP6 | |
| Morris Sloman | Imperial College London | |
| Per Stenstrom | Chalmers University of Technology | |
| Joe Sventek | University of Glasgow | |
| Paulo Veríssimo | Universidade de Lisboa |
Past recipients:
2011: Jorrit Herder, for his thesis Building a Dependable Operating System: Fault Tolerance in MINIX 32010: Willem de Bruijn, for his thesis Adaptive Operating System Design for High Throughput I/O
2009: Jacob Gorm Hansen, for his thesis Virtual Machine Mobility with Self-Migration
2008: Adam Dunkels, for his thesis Programming Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems
2007: Nick Cook, for his thesis Middleware Support for Non-repudiable Business-to-Business Interactions
2006:
Oliver Heckmann, for his thesis A
System-oriented Approach to Efficiency and Quality of Service for
Internet Service Providers
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