Awards and Prizes

Announcements

Bruno Buchberger wins Kanellakis prize.

SIGSAM is thrilled to announce that Bruno Buchberger has won the 2007 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. This is one of ACMs top prizes and honours specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. Bruno Buchberger wins “for his role in developing the theory of Groebner Bases into a highly effective tool in computer algebra, widely used in symbolic computation systems.”

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See the full ACM press release here. Congratulations Bruno!

ISSAC 2007 Awards

SIGSAM sponsors the Dintinguished Paper and Distinguished Student Contribution awards at the annual International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC).

The ISSAC 2007 prizes are as follows
  • Distinguished paper: Hongbo Li. A recipe for symbolic geometric computing: long geometric product.
  • Distinguished student contribution: Marc Dohm. Implicitization of Bi-homogeneous parametrizations of algebraic surfaces via linear syzygies (with Laurent Busé).
ISSAC Awards for previous years and citations are available here .

Richard D. Jenks Prize

SIGSAM administers the ACM SIGSAM Richard Dimick Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering applied to Computer Algebra.
  • The 2008 Jenks Prize will be awarded at ISSAC 2008 at RISC Linz.
  • The 2006 Jenks Prize went to Prof. John J. Cannon of The University of Sydney
  • The 2004 Jenks Prize went to the SINGULAR team of the University of Kaiserslautern

ACM Awards

Several SIGSAM members have been named ACM Fellows since the ACM Fellows Program was established in 1993.

Nominations

SIGSAM actively seeks to promote SIGSAM members for ACM and other prizes. If you see an opportunity to recognize excellent work in computer algebra and scientific computation, please bring it to our attention!