Wednesday 1 April 2015

Call for Nominations: 2015 TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award

Call for Nominations: 2015 TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award

This award recognizes an individual (or a group of individuals) in the broader community who have made major professional service contributions to the parallel, distributed and high-performance computing community. Contributions can be (but not limited to): significant volunteer role in professional meetings (TCPP sponsored as well as others), serving on editorial boards,
organizing major events, developing community resources, and international outreach. Note that these are meant to be just some examples and not exhaustive. Also, contributions are not limited to 2014 calendar year.

Nomination: 
A candidate may be nominated by members of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. The nomination should include:
1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible)
2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended
3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award and a brief summary of the service contributions.
4. CV of the nominee
5. Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination.

Nomination deadline is April 15, 2015.

Past recipients include: David Bader,  Allan Gottlieb, Sushil Prasad, Viktor Prasanna, Arnold Rosenberg, Sartaj Sahni,  Susamma Barua, William S. Pitts and Sally J. Westrom, Albert Zomaya

The 2015 awards committee consists of: Luc Bouge, R. Govindrajan, Joseph Ja Ja (Chair), Lionel Ni, Manish Parashar, Padma Raghavan, and Sartaj Sahni.

Please email your nomination to Prof. Ja Ja at joseph@umiacs.umd.edu  by April 15, 2015.

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