News

2008

December 2008

Peter Druschel wins the Sigops Mark Weiser Award. The Mark Weiser Award was created in 2001 by ACM SIGOPS, to be given to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research.

October 2008

Adam Dunkels from SICS, Sweden, is the winner of the 2008 Cor Baayen Award for a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics. Sixteen finalists competed for this award established by ERCIM in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President Cor Baayen.

July 2008

Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum received a 5-year 2.5 million euro European Research Council "Advanced Grant" to do research in reliable and secure operating systems. Here is a summary of the grant proposal. The basic idea of the proposal is that current operating systems are much too big and very badly structured and the situation is getting worse every year. In this research Prof. Tanenbaum wants to investigate much smaller, modular, fault-tolerant, multiserver designs. The focus is on making systems much more reliable and secure than they are now.

May 2008

Anne-Marie Kermarrec won the European Research Council (ERC) Independent Researcher Grant for her work on "Gossple: A Radically New Approach to Navigating the Digital Information Universe." ERC Starting Grants aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate an independent research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe.

2008 Roger Needham PhD award

Dr. Adam Dunkels, senior scientist at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, has been awarded the 2008 Roger Needham PhD award, which recognizes a Ph.D. student from a European University whose thesis is regarded as an exceptional, innovative contribution to knowledge in the systems area. This award recognizes Adam's work in networked embedded systems. A press release by SICS can be found here and a press release by Eurosys can be found here.

2007 Chester Carlson Prize

Dr. Adam Dunkels, senior scientist at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, has been awarded the 2007 Chester Carlson Prize, the most prestigious prize for the information sciences in Sweden, for his prominent work on network-connectivity for small, low-cost embedded systems. The Chester Carlson Prize was founded in 1985 in memory of Chester Carlson, the Swedish-American inventor of the copying machine and founder of the Xerox Corporation. The prize winner is selected by Xerox and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. The prize sum is 100 000 SEK.