2008 Call for Nominations
for the

ACM/SIGSAM

Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize
for Excellence in
Computer Algebra Software Engineering



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The third Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for excellence in software engineering for computer algebra will be awarded at ISSAC 2008 at RISC Linz, Austria, in July, 2008. The prize will consist of a plaque and a cash award of $1,000.

Nominations, including self nominations, for this prize are hereby solicited. Each nomination should be accompanied by a carefully completed nomination form. Candidates (or their nominators) should arrange to have two to five confidential letters of recommendation submitted by persons who are familiar with the nominee's software engineering achievements in computer algebra. The letters are an especially important part of the nomination packet.

Software engineering will be interpreted broadly, but it should be an important component in the work of any nominee. The nominee can be an individual or a team, when the latter is appropriate. Any questions about the suitability of a given body of work for the prize should be directed to a member of the prize committee as listed below.

All nominations must be received by May 1, 2008.

The prize winner will be selected by a committee consisting of the following individuals:

  Barry Trager (co-chair), IBM Research email: bmt@watson.ibm.com
  Tony Hearn (co-chair), Rand Corporation email: hearn@rand.org
  Mark Giesbrecht, ACM SIGSAM Chair, University of Waterloo email: mwg@uwaterloo.ca
  David Musser, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. email: musser@cs.RPI.edu
  Mike Dewar, Numerical Algorithms Group email: miked@nag.co.uk


All nominations and supporting papers should be sent by email to jenksprize@sigsam.org.