ACM SIGAda Awards

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Started in 1994, the ACM SIGAda Awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the Ada community and to SIGAda. The two categories of awards are:

Outstanding Ada Community Contribution Award
-- For broad, lasting contributions to Ada technology & usage.
ACM SIGAda Distinguished Service Award
-- For exceptional contributions to SIGAda activities & products.

The ACM SIGAda Award Committee (volunteers who have previously won an award) selects recipients from nominations submitted by SIGAda membership and other members of the Ada community.

SIGAda awards (in the form of the statuette of Lady Lovelace pictured above) are typically presented at the SIGAda conference each fall, with nominations closing approximately one month before the conference. Click here for the current Nomination Form.

Previous Winners (1994-2006)

Outstanding Ada Community Contributions

SIGAda Distinguished Service Awards

Christine Anderson (1996) Ted Baker (1999) John Barnes (1994) Grady Booch (2006) Kenneth L. Bowles (1997) Ben Brosgol (2006) Randy Brukardt (2000) Alan Burns (2001) Martin Carlisle (2002) Rick Conn (1995) Dirk Craeynest (1999) Robert Dewar (1995) Robert Duff (2002) David Emery (1999) John Goodenough (1994) Michael González Harbour (2003) Hal Hart (2002) Matthew Heaney (2005) Audrey Hook (1998) Jean Ichbiah (1995) Magnus Kempe (1996) Pascal Leroy (2005) Bob Mathis (1996) Charles McKay (2001) Jim Moore (1997) Emmett Paige, Jr. (1994) Erhard Ploedereder (2000) Richard Riehle (1996) Edmond Schonberg (1997) SPARK Team (2004) Alfred Strohmeier (2001) S. Tucker Taft (1995) Joyce Tokar (2000) Andy Wellings (2002) William Whitaker (1994)

Brad Balfour (1997) Michael Berman (2006) Eugene Bingue (2005) Benjamin Brosgol (1998) Martin Carlisle (2004) Norman Cohen (1999) Ed Colbert (1996) Currie Colket (2001) David Cook (2002) Leslie Dupaix (2003) Chuck Engle (1995) Mike Feldman (1994) Gerry Fisher (1998) Anthony Gargaro (1996) Mark Gerhardt (1995) David Harrison (2000) Hal Hart (1997) Mike Kamrad (1994) Rush Kester (2005) John McCormick (2002) S. Ron Oliver (2003) Thomas A. Panfil (2002) Charlene Roberts-Hayden (1996) Clyde Roby (2001) Jean Sammet (2002) SIGAda's Numerics Working Group (Chaired by Gil Myers) (1994) SIGAda's ASIS Working Group (Chaired by Currie Colket) (1999)

Dear Members of the Ada Community,

The ACM SIGAda Awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the Ada community and to SIGAda. The two categories of awards are:

Outstanding Ada Community Contribution Award

For broad, lasting contributions to Ada technology & usage.

ACM SIGAda Distinguished Service Award

For exceptional contributions to SIGAda activities & products.

Your support will maintain the prestige and honor of these awards.

Please consider who should be nominated this year. You may nominate a person for either award. You many nominate as many people as you think worthy.

You can a see a list of past recipients on this Web page. These may help you think about the measure of accomplishment that is appropriate. People who have received either of the two awards remain eligible for the other. You may be aware of people who have made substantial contributions that have not yet been acknowledged. Nominate them. Consider what you believe to be the best developments in the Ada community or SIGAda in the last year; the last 5 years; the last 10 years; or since Ada's inception. Who was responsible? Nominate them.

The ACM SIGAda Awards Committee, volunteers who have previously won an award, will determine this year's recipients from your nominations.

Call our attention to the people who are most deserving, by nominating them. And please nominate by October 8 this year, to be awarded at SIGAda 2008 in Portland, Oregon!

Thank you.

	Click here for the PDF version of the Nomination Form
	Click here for the Word 97 version of the Nomination Form

Please send the completed PDF or Word version of the Nomination Form as an email attachment, or send an email message with the requested categories of information as plain text in the body of that email message, by 8 October 2008 to SIGAda-Award@ACM.ORG.