Tsutomu Kanai Award
The Tsutomu Kanai Award was created by a generous endowment from Hitachi,
Ltd. It recognizes major contributions to state-of-the-art distributed
computing systems and their applications. The award consists of a certificate,
crystal memento, and a $10,000 honorarium.
| Larry Smarr |
2006 |
For pioneering research in the design and
architecture of distributed national infrastructures for high-performance
computing |
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Elisa Bertino
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2005
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Pioneering and innovative research contributions to secure distributed
systems.
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Kane Kim
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2004
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For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the scientific foundation
of both real-time object-structuring based distributed computing and real-time
fault-tolerant distributed computing.
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James Gosling
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2003
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For major contributions to advances in the technology for construction of
distributed computing systems through invention of the Java Language
system.
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Stephen S. Yau
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2002
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For outstanding contributions to distributed computing software
engineering and promotion of the community of distributed computing software
researchers.
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Alfred Z. Spector
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2001
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For technical leadership in the design and implementation of reliable,
scalable architectures for supporting distributed files and distributed
applications, and for pioneering in their commercialization.
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C. V. Ramamoorthy
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2000
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For pioneering fundamental contributions to extracting parallelism and to
the design of distributed system.
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Kenneth L. Thompson
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1999
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For creating the UNIX Operating System, which for more than 20 years has
been a key platform for distributed systems work.
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