Deadline is 15 September for Kanai Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 6 August, 2009 – The deadline to submit a nomination for the IEEE Computer Society’s Tsutomu Kanai Award is 15 September.
The Tsutomu Kanai Award honors major contributions to state-of-the-art distributed computing systems and their applications. The award was established in 1995 with a generous endowment from Hitachi Ltd.. It was named in honor of Dr. Tsutomu Kanai who served as Hitachi’s president for 30 years.
Recipients receive a certificate, crystal memento, and $10,000 honorarium. In addition, the recipient will receive a travel grant to attend two technical conferences.
The Kanai Award Selection Committee is chaired by the 2005 Kanai Recipient Elisa Bertino of Purdue University.
In 2008, Computer Society Past President Benjamin W. Wah received the Kanai Award for his outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of distributed multimedia and nonlinear optimization algorithms. Willy Zwaenepoel’s contributions to cluster-based distributed computing for scientific and Web applications earned him the award in 2007. And Larry Smarr was awarded the Kanai in 2006 for pioneering research into the design and architecture of distributed national infrastructures for high-performance computing. Bertino won the Kanai for her pioneering and innovative research contributions to secure distributed systems.
The IEEE Computer Society awards program honors outstanding technical achievements, innovation, and service to the computer profession and to the society. Nomination forms are available at http://awards.computer.org/ana. For more information, contact Thomas M. Conte, 2009 Awards Committee Chair, at awards@computer.org.
About the IEEE Computer Society
With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 39 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology. The Society serves the information and career-development needs of today’s computing researchers and practitioners with technical journals, magazines, conferences, books, conference publications, certifications, and online courses.
