Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing explained

The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (also called SIROCCO award) is an award presented annually at the conference International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) to a living individual (or individuals) who have made a major contribution to understanding "the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized computing", which is main area of interest for this conference. The award recognizes innovation, in particular, it recognizes inventors of new ideas that were unorthodox and outside the mainstream at the time of their introduction. There are two restrictions for being eligible for this award: (1) The original contribution must have appeared in a publication at least five years before the year of the award, (2) One of the articles related to this contribution and authored by this candidate must have appeared in the proceedings of SIROCCO.[1]

The award was presented for the first time in 2009.[2]

Winners

YearRecipientTopic
2009Nicola SantoroAnalysis of properties of labeled graphs
2010[3] Jean-Claude BermondImpact of structure of networks on the efficiency of parallel or distributed algorithms
2011[4] David PelegLocal computing, robot computing, dynamic monopolies, sparse spanners, compact routing and labeling schemes
2012[5] Roger WattenhoferDistributed approximation
2013[6] Andrzej PelcCommunication paradigms for information dissemination
2014[7] Pierre FraigniaudOn the role of identities in local distributed computing
2015[8] Michel RaynalCondition-based approach to solving agreement problems
2016[9] Masafumi YamashitaDistributed computing with autonomous mobile robots
2017[10] Shmuel ZaksAlgorithmic aspects of optical networks
2018[11] Zvi LotkerTheory of wireless and social networks
2019[12] Paola FlocchiniSense of direction in labeled graphs and analysis of asynchronous systems of mobile agents
2020[13] Amos KormanComputational aspects of biological systems
2021[14] Friedhelm Meyer-auf-der-HeideContinuous strategies for swarms of mobile robots
2022[15] [16] Christian ScheidelerRobust and efficient overlay networks
2023[17] Boaz Patt-ShamirDistributed computing under bandwidth limitations

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Notes and References

  1. Call for Nominations for the Prize (2013) http://sites.google.com/site/sirocco2013italy/call-for-prize-nomination
  2. [Idit Keidar]
  3. CNRS website http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article60
  4. Proceedings of SIROCCO 2011 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-642-22212-2%2F1.pdf
  5. Idit Keidar, ACM-SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column, June 2013 http://people.csail.mit.edu/idish/sigactNews/DC-col50-Jun13.pdf
  6. Proceedings of SIROCCO 2013 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-319-03578-9%2F1.pdf
  7. Proceedings of SIROCCO 2014 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-09620-9
  8. IRISA Website http://www.irisa.fr/fr/actus/sirocco-innovation-award-2015-michel-raynal-distributed-computing
  9. SIROCCO 2016 Website http://sirocco2016.hiit.fi/award/
  10. Technion Website https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/news/2017/910/
  11. SIROCCO 2018 Website https://sites.google.com/view/sirocco2018/sirocco-prize
  12. SIROCCO 2019 Website https://cs.gssi.it/sirocco2019/index.php/conference-program/
  13. SIROCCO 2020 Website https://sirocco2020.cs.uni-paderborn.de/prize.html
  14. SIROCCO 2021 Website http://sirocco2021.ii.uni.wroc.pl/2021-sirocco-prize/index.html
  15. SIROCCO 2022 Website https://sirocco2022.cs.upb.de/prize.php
  16. University of Paderborn news https://sfb901.uni-paderborn.de/news/details/christian-scheideler-wins-the-29th-sirocco-prize-for-innovation-in-distributed-computing
  17. SIROCCO 2023 Website https://sirocco2023.networks.imdea.org/awards/